The Governors of The University of Calgary
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 108102864RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,622,081,375) as filed with the CRA.
The Governors of The University of Calgary is a charitable organization based in Calgary, 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 $1.7B in revenue and $1.6B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 49% from government. In 2024, 177 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $82.9M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 42% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 3,307 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $26K in 2024, the largest being $25K to McMaster University.
In its own words
The University of Calgary had 37 400 full time and part time students in the 2023/2024 fiscal year from over 100 countries registered in the following 15 faculties: Art Cummung School of Medicine Environmental Design Graduate Studies Haskayne School of Business Kinesiology Law Nursing Nursing (Qatar) Schulich School of Engineering Science Social Work Veterinary Medicine Werklund School of Education and Public Policy. The University employed the equivalent head count of 3 307 regular staff and 10 984 staff classified as either fixed-term limited-term temporary hourly and hourly…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7B | $1.6B | $1.4B | $24.4M | $26K | $2.2B |
| 2023 | $1.5B | $1.5B | $1.3B | $23.4M | $8,845 | $2B |
| 2022 | $1.5B | $1.4B | $1.3B | $23.7M | $0 | $2B |
| 2021 | $1.5B | $1.4B | $1.3B | $21.8M | — | $2B |
| 2020 | $1.6B | $1.5B | $1.3B | $25.4M | $348K | $1.7B |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $26K to 2 qualified donees:
- McMaster University$25K
- United Way (Calgary and Area)$1,344
Received $82.9M from 177 charities:
- Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation$21.3M
- The Taylor Family Foundation$6.5M
- Cal Wenzel Family Foundation$5.5M
- The Calgary Foundation$5.4M
- Calgary Health Foundation$5.4M
- Brain Canada Foundation$3.6M
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3.2M
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$3M
- Canadian Cancer Society$2.1M
- Weston Family Foundation$2.1M
- The Alvin and Mona Libin Foundation$2M
- The Mathison Family Foundation$2M
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1.5M
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$1.1M
- EJO Trust$1M
- The Sinneave Family Foundation$1M
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$946K
- Parkinson Canada Inc.$824K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$660K
- Rose Foundation$630K
- Viewpoint Foundation$600K
- Ptarmigan Charitable Foundation$553K
- The Krembil Foundation$524K
- McCaig INstitute Foundation$500K
- Trico Charitable Foundation$500K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over10 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3,307
- Total compensation, all staff$869M
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 Governors of The University of Calgary’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108102864RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.