Skills/compétences Canada Corporation
Publicly funded institution · Ottawa, Ontario · BN 130320559RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($12,510,129) as filed with the CRA.
Skills/compétences Canada Corporation is a charitable organization based in Ottawa, Ontario, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $12.8M in revenue and $12.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from government, 7% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $178K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 96% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $4M in 2024, the largest being $620K to Skills Canada-Ontario Competences Canada-Ontario. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Promote skilled trades and technologies to canadian youth across canada. Programs: skills canada national competition: an olympic style multi-trade competition held over a four day period world skills competition: team canada participates in an international trades and technologies competition held every two years. Attended by competitors from almost 40 countries. Skills for success awareness
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12.8M | $12.5M | $8.3M | $230K | $4M | $2.7M |
| 2023 | $13.2M | $12.8M | $12.6M | $183K | $4.6M | $2.4M |
| 2022 | $7M | $6.8M | — | $212K | $2.6M | $2M |
| 2021 | $5.6M | $5.7M | $5.4M | $251K | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $10.8M | $10.8M | $10.4M | $319K | $3.4M | $402K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4M to 10 qualified donees:
- Skills Canada-Ontario Competences Canada-Ontario$620K
- Compétences Québec$511K
- Skills Canada Manitoba Association Inc.$472K
- Skills Canada Saskatchewan Inc$460K
- Skills Canada Nova Scotia Association$389K
- Skills Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Incorporated$376K
- Skills Canada - British Columbia Chapter$312K
- Skills Canada Northwest Territories$294K
- Skills Canada Alberta Association$289K
- Skills Canada PEI Inc$241K
Received $178K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Patrick Rouble (president); Susan Lefort (vice-president); Phil Polsom (treasurer); Raymond Massey (secretary); Dominique Bousquet (director); Michael Watson (director); Paul Armstrong (director); Barb Heming (director); Dennis Innes (director); Kyle Wilson (director); Ashley Delong (director); Gavin Toole (director); Jeff Vautour (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Skills/compétences Canada Corporation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130320559RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.