The Butterfly Learning Centre
Publicly funded institution · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 897779518RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,390,367) as filed with the CRA.
The Butterfly Learning Centre is a charitable organization based in Waterloo, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $348.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 28 permanent full-time positions.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.4M | $2.4M | $673 | — | $665K |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $2.2M | $2.2M | $2,449 | — | $638K |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $1.9M | — | — | $499K |
| 2021 | $2M | $2M | $1.9M | $1,004 | — | $464K |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.6M | $1.5M | $1,004 | $0 | $358K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $348 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions28
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Butterfly Learning Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 897779518RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.