The Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning
Publicly funded institution · Kitchener, Ontario · BN 106966799RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($693,296,783) as filed with the CRA.
The Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning is a charitable organization based in Kitchener, Ontario, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. 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 $945.5M in revenue and $693.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from government. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 66% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 2,065 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $365.8M in 2020 to $945.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The college delivers full and part-time post secondary degree diploma certificate apprenticeship and continuing education programs funded by public sector grants student tuition and private sector contributions. The college administers a bursary and scholarship programs for the benefit of the students.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $945.5M | $693.3M | $641.7M | — | — | $605.8M |
| 2023 | $600M | $495.4M | $33M | — | — | $353.8M |
| 2022 | $466.6M | $406.3M | $366.9M | — | — | $249.3M |
| 2021 | $344.9M | $309.5M | $277.1M | — | — | $165.3M |
| 2020 | $365.8M | $334.5M | $311M | — | — | $134.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5M from 29 charities:
- KTLX Charitable Foundation$2M
- The Cowan Foundation$1M
- The Cowan Foundation$500K
- The Cowan Foundation$400K
- Smart Serve Foundation$250K
- The Schulich Foundation$225K
- The Lyle Shantz Hallman Charitable Foundation$210K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$126K
- Rideau Hall Foundation$90K
- RBC Foundation$80K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$45K
- Walker Wood Foundation$40K
- The Ross and Doris Dixon Charitable Foundation$11K
- The WB Family Foundation$10K
- Educationmatters$7,000
- Ontario Professional Engineers Foundation for Education$6,000
- The Cloverleaf Foundation$4,500
- Cfuw K-W Charitable Fund$4,000
- Smart Serve Ontario$4,000
- United Way Waterloo Region Communities$3,846
- Canadian Federation of University Women-Guelph Chapter Scholarships and Awards Trust Fund$3,500
- Hamilton Community Foundation$3,200
- Coram Deo Foundation$2,500
- Kidsability Centre for Child Development Foundation$1,500
- Oakville Community Foundation$1,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over4 positions
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2,065
- Total compensation, all staff$400.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Tibbits (ex officio); Dean Bulloch (secretary treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106966799RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.