The Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology
Publicly funded institution · Nepean, Ontario · BN 888550845RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($441,623,697) as filed with the CRA.
The Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology is a charitable organization based in Nepean, 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 $476.6M in revenue and $441.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 27% from government. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.6M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 48% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 1,630 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Algonquin college provides post secondary education continuing education youth employment training federally sponsored training technical upgrading and provincial apprenticeship programs in ottawa and the ottawa valley. Through their advancement department the college also solicits receives manages and distribute funds and other donated property within the college to support the educational programs it delivers.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $476.6M | $441.6M | $390.6M | — | — | $250.2M |
| 2023 | $389.5M | $378.2M | $333.1M | — | — | $205.6M |
| 2022 | $355.2M | $358.9M | $315.7M | — | — | $194.7M |
| 2021 | $339.9M | $337M | $290.3M | — | — | $196.6M |
| 2020 | $381.4M | $366.7M | $320.1M | — | — | $185M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.6M from 23 charities:
- The Joyce Family Foundation$2M
- The Schulich Foundation$225K
- Canadahelps Canadon$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$100K
- RBC Foundation$80K
- Smart Serve Ontario$31K
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$9,000
- Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario Foundation$7,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,000
- The Calgary Foundation$3,600
- The Perth and District Community Foundation$3,551
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$3,197
- The Association of Ontario Land Surveyors Educational Foundation$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,140
- CWB Welding Foundation$2,000
- The Silver Hotel Group Ruparell Foundation$2,000
- Toronto Foundation$2,000
- Elizabeth Kelly Library Foundation Inc.$1,270
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,230
- Ontario Branch of the International Order of the King's Daughters and Sons$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$324
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$244
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
- $200,000–249,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,630
- Total compensation, all staff$256M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Anthony Pollard (board member); James McCracken (board chair); Gabrielle Berard (board member); Rodney Wilson (board member); Stephen Tudor (board vice chair); Shaun Denis (board member); Bharat Rudra (board member); Michele Bellows (board member); Wadhah Al-Monaifi (board member); Tanya Buckley (board member); Claude Brule (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 888550845RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.