Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning
Publicly funded institution · Montreal, Quebec · BN 119128981RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,766,528,550) as filed with the CRA.
Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning is a charitable organization based in Montreal, Quebec, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending April 30, 2024, it reported $1.8B in revenue and $1.8B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 51% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 283 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $68.3M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 63% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 7,544 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The mission of mcgill university is the advancement of learning and the creation and dissemination of knowledge by offering the best possible education by carrying out research and scholarly activities judged to be excellent by the highest international standards and by providing service to society. In fulfilling its mission mcgill university embraces the principles of academic freedom integrity responsibility quity and inclusiveness. Located on two campuses ( the downtown and the macdonald campus) mcgill has reached 39 461 students enrolled in 10 faculties and the school of continu…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.8B | $1.8B | $1.6B | $25.1M | — | $2.1B |
| 2023 | $1.7B | $1.7B | $1.6B | $22.8M | — | $1.9B |
| 2022 | $1.6B | $1.6B | $1.4B | $19.7M | — | $1.8B |
| 2021 | $1.5B | $1.4B | $1.3B | $18.4M | — | $1.8B |
| 2020 | $1.5B | $1.5B | $1.3B | $21.5M | — | $1.5B |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $68.3M from 283 charities:
- Mastercard Foundation$22.2M
- Weston Family Foundation$8.1M
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$3.6M
- The Irving Ludmer Foundation$2.2M
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$2.1M
- The Fernandes Family Foundation$1.9M
- Fondation du Centre universitaire de santé McGill McGill University Health Centre Foundation$1.7M
- Max Bell Foundation$1.6M
- La Fondation Rossy The Rossy Foundation$1.4M
- Sandra and Alain Bouchard Foundation$1.2M
- Canadian Cancer Society$1.2M
- The Montreal General Hospital Foundation$1.2M
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$1.1M
- Cancer Research Society$935K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$903K
- Seamont Foundation-Fondation Seamont$830K
- Hewitt Foundation$750K
- Fondation Mirella & Lino Saputo$653K
- The Rathlyn Foundation$500K
- World Vision Canada$472K
- The Waltons Trust$450K
- The Purpleville Foundation$423K
- The Sir Mortimer B. Davis Jewish General Hospital Foundation$409K
- Fondation J-Louis Lévesque$400K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$351K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over7 positions
- $300,000–349,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7,544
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2B
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Deep Saini (president and vice chanc); Maryse Bertrand (chair/member-at-large); Pierre Matuszewski (vice-chair/member-at-l); Edith Zorychta (senate representative); Petra Rohrbach (senate representative); Jonathan Sigler (member-at-large); Adrienne Piggott (admin& support staff); Fred Headon (member-at-large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119128981RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.