The Board of Governors of Grant MacEwan University
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 107448219RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($258,570,678) as filed with the CRA.
The Board of Governors of Grant MacEwan University is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, 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 $292.2M in revenue and $258.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from government. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.7M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 40% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 1,506 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
Providing post-secondary education by teaching learning scholarship research and community service; --Funding of endowed academic chairs created to assist with achieving the academic goals and objectives of the University; --Philanthrophic support for individual faculty initiative and projects outlined in the University's planning documents. These includes some smaller capital projects visiting lectureships symposia student athletic events and students learning activities not funded by University grants.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $292.2M | $258.6M | $224.1M | $1.8M | — | $511.5M |
| 2023 | $248.2M | $234.6M | $201.7M | $2.1M | $10K | $474.5M |
| 2022 | $183.6M | $174.2M | $152M | $1.2M | — | $466M |
| 2021 | $224.5M | $212.1M | $183.8M | $1.2M | — | $459.6M |
| 2020 | $227.7M | $234.2M | $200.5M | $1.2M | $400 | $440.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.7M from 14 charities:
- The Grant MacEwan University Foundation$3.4M
- Cam & Dawn Allard Family Foundation$100K
- Cpa Education Foundation$80K
- Ukrainian Foundation for College Education Trust$30K
- Northwestern Alberta Foundation$5,825
- Vancouver Foundation$3,500
- The Leonard Foundation$3,463
- The Calgary Foundation$3,000
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$2,800
- Drayton Valley Community Foundation$2,689
- Coram Deo Foundation$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,350
- Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko$1,000
- Hadassah-Wizo Organization Of Canada$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over2 positions
- $300,000–349,9992 positions
- $250,000–299,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,506
- Total compensation, all staff$170.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Annette Trimbee (president and vice-chancellor).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Board of Governors of Grant MacEwan University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107448219RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.