Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology
Publicly funded institution · North York, Ontario · BN 107967168RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($586,046,889) as filed with the CRA.
Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology is a charitable organization based in North York, Ontario, classified by the CRA under arts. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $618.1M in revenue and $586M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from government. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.4M.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 1,833 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $18K in 2024, the largest being $15K to United Way of Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Seneca combines rigorous academics with practical training across a wide range of careers and professions- from health care technology and business to creative arts community services and arts and sciences. We prepare students for great careers with full-time part-time in-person hybrid flexible and online learning options while helping remove barriers to education with various financial aid opportunities and supports.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $618.1M | $586M | $525.2M | $2.2M | $18K | $484.4M |
| 2023 | $579.2M | $516.4M | $462.9M | $1.8M | $17K | $447.2M |
| 2022 | $545.1M | $461.9M | $414M | $1.7M | $21K | $388.2M |
| 2021 | $441M | $419.5M | $375.7M | $1.8M | — | $302.5M |
| 2020 | $471.4M | $450.1M | $403.3M | $1.8M | — | $278.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $18K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $2.4M from 22 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2M
- RBC Foundation$165K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$100K
- Walker Wood Foundation$40K
- The Catherine and Maxwell Meighen Foundation$25K
- The Frank H Hori Charitable Foundation$10K
- Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario Foundation$7,500
- Hamilton Community Foundation$6,949
- University Women's Club of North York Scholarship Fund$6,000
- Smart Serve Ontario$4,000
- Community Foundation Grey Bruce$3,918
- Enactus Canada$3,500
- The Charitable Trust of the Canadian Federation of University Women Aurora/Newmarket Inc.$3,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,200
- CIFFA Cares$1,200
- Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal$1,000
- Toronto Foundation$1,000
- Hamilton Community Foundation$905
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$719
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$500
- The EJP For Good Foundation$397
- Canadahelps Canadon$197
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9992 positions
- $250,000–299,9995 positions
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,833
- Total compensation, all staff$345.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Agnew (president); Shiree Bain (governor); Chris Bullen (governor); Nadine Chautilal (governor); Samanatha Craig-Curnow (governor); John Kucharczuk (governor); Steven Linthwaite (governor); Hiten Makim (governor); Maria May (governor); Kimberly Moran (vice-chair); Nancy Naylor (governor); William Pearson (governor); Ashif Somani (chair); Winston Stewart (vice-chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Seneca College of Applied Arts & Technology’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107967168RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.