The Ontario Educational Communications Authority
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 859850232RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($69,865,462) as filed with the CRA.
The Ontario Educational Communications Authority is a charitable organization based in Toronto, Ontario, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. 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 $65.4M in revenue and $69.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 82% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 42 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $302K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 301 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Tvo's learning products and services rooted in the ontario curriculum help build a province that can adapt innovate and compete globally. This includes: - tvo learn a portfolio of products + services that allows students to access high-quality teacher-taught online resources that complements classroom learning including: - elementary course packs (materials that are based on the latest curriculum for grades 1-8) - secondary courses (12 teacher-led courses were delivered to edu along with french immersion and french core courses) - tvo mathify (our acclaimed free 1:1 online math t…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $65.4M | $69.9M | $60M | $1.5M | — | $31M |
| 2023 | $65.9M | $66.2M | $56.9M | $1.7M | — | $36.7M |
| 2022 | $75.6M | $71.3M | $63.9M | $1.5M | — | $37M |
| 2021 | $63.9M | $62M | $53.5M | $2.6M | — | $31.3M |
| 2020 | $63.1M | $60.3M | $49.9M | $3.5M | — | $29.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $302K from 42 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$79K
- Canadahelps Canadon$79K
- Barry and Laurie Green Family Charitable Trust$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$17K
- Aqueduct Foundation$12K
- Toronto Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,734
- The Norman and Margaret Jewison Charitable Foundation$6,000
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$4,450
- BenefAction Foundation$3,269
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$2,949
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,785
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,628
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,482
- The Audrey Loeb and David Ross Foundation$2,000
- Link Charity Canada Inc$1,700
- Community Foundation for Kingston & Area$1,500
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$1,500
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,348
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$1,338
- Bealight Foundation$1,000
- R&M Lang Foundation$1,000
- N.a. Taylor Foundation$1,000
- The Tom and Ruth Kritsch Family Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9992 positions
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9994 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions301
- Total compensation, all staff$46.1M
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 Ontario Educational Communications Authority’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 859850232RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.