The School of Restoration Arts at Willowbank
Publicly funded institution · Queenston, Ontario · BN 891476400RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($722,312) as filed with the CRA.
The School of Restoration Arts at Willowbank is a charitable organization based in Queenston, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $536K in revenue and $722K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from donations. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $54K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 4% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 75% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
School programs including full time education and short courses are offered to teach conservation and restoration skills including building survey and assessment of historic sites archaeology heritage landscape material culture research and heritage architectural details with the intention of teaching such skills in working environment in which a venue undergoing restoration would be the classroom.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $536K | $722K | $205K | $23K | — | $5.8M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $456K | $210K | $14K | — | $4.4M |
| 2022 | $556K | $484K | $264K | $2,055 | — | $2.7M |
| 2021 | $502K | $410K | $179K | $1,549 | — | $2.6M |
| 2020 | $381K | $461K | $174K | $5,029 | — | $2.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $54K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$428K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Emily Bright (director); Clinton Brown (chair); Sasha Knight (director); Patrick Little (director); Elizabeth Oliver-Malone (drector); Frank Racioppo (treasurer); Denise Horne (secretary); Marie-Louise Bowering (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The School of Restoration Arts at Willowbank’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891476400RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.