St. Augustine's Seminary of Toronto
Publicly funded institution · Scarborough, Ontario · BN 852191683RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($9,025,027) as filed with the CRA.
St. Augustine's Seminary of Toronto is a charitable organization based in Scarborough, 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $9M in revenue and $9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 35% from other charities. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.1M.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 54 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $128K in 2024, the largest being $126K to The Shepherds' Trust. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
St. Augustine's seminary of toronto was established in 1913 as the first major seminary in english speaking canada. Our primary mission is the formation of candidates to the diocesan priesthood for the roman catholic church.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9M | $9M | $6.4M | $61K | — | $16.6M |
| 2023 | $7.7M | $7.9M | $5.3M | $81K | — | $15.9M |
| 2022 | $7.4M | $7.3M | $4.7M | $59K | — | $16.5M |
| 2021 | $8.9M | $7.3M | — | — | — | $16.8M |
| 2020 | $6.4M | $7.6M | — | — | — | $13.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $128K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $2.1M from 16 charities:
- Sharelife$2M
- Scarboro Foreign Mission Society$100K
- Serra Foundation of Canada$5,920
- Lamb Foundation$5,000
- Savage Foundation$4,550
- Canadian Medical Foundation$2,921
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,745
- Queen of the Holy Rosary Shrine$1,250
- The Foundation Office.ca$1,200
- St. Mark's Parish$1,100
- Damiani Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$975
- Fr. Henk Van Den Berg Council No. 10614 Charitable Welfare Trust$500
- Sisters Servants of Mary Immaculate Provincial Home$180
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$77
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions54
- Total compensation, all staff$4.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Boissonneau (director); Vincent Nguyen (director); Edwin Gonsalves (director); John Abad (director); Nida Fe Chavez (director); Magda Soligo (director); Kevin Belgrave (director); Mario Biscardi (director); A. Robert Nusca (president); Dean Penafiel (chief financial officer); Celeste Iacobelli (director); John Mulhall (director/treasurer); Anna Rossetti (director); Francis Leo (chairman); Thomas Lynch (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from St. Augustine's Seminary of Toronto’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 852191683RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.