The Sir Sandford Fleming College of Applied Arts and Technology
Publicly funded institution · Peterborough, Ontario · BN 107982845RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($270,472,892) as filed with the CRA.
The Sir Sandford Fleming College of Applied Arts and Technology is a charitable organization based in Peterborough, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and 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 $307.3M in revenue and $270.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from government. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $850K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 67% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 610 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $4.5M in 2024, the largest being $4.5M to Fleming College Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $139.8M in 2020 to $307.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Offer a comprehensive program of career-oriented postsecondary education and training to assist individuals in finding and keeping employment to meet the needs of employers and the changing work environment and to support the economic and social needs of their local and diverse communities. We undertake a range of educational-related and training-relate activities including a) entering into partnerships with business industry and other educational institutions b) adult vocational education and training c) basic skills and literacy training d) apprenticeship in-school training e) appl…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $307.3M | $270.5M | $247.3M | $151K | $4.5M | $86.7M |
| 2023 | $182.1M | $168.4M | $152.9M | $239K | — | $49.2M |
| 2022 | $138.9M | $139.3M | $127.3M | $235K | — | $37.9M |
| 2021 | $128M | $131.3M | $117.2M | $214K | — | $38.9M |
| 2020 | $139.8M | $137.1M | $122.1M | $167K | — | $42.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.5M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $850K from 22 charities:
- Fleming College Foundation$556K
- The Shields and Woodrow Foundation$59K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- CIFFA Cares$34K
- Otto and Marie Pick Foundation$20K
- Walker Wood Foundation$20K
- Enactus Canada$15K
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial pour la Nature Can Ada$6,378
- Smart Serve Ontario$4,000
- Muskoka Community Foundation$4,000
- Community Foundation for Lennox & Addington$3,225
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$3,197
- The Association of Ontario Land Surveyors Educational Foundation$2,750
- John Deere Foundation of Canada$2,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- CWB Welding Foundation$1,500
- Community Foundation of Greater Peterborough$1,000
- Compass Early Learning and CARE$500
- Community Foundation of Campbellford/seymour and Northumberland$500
- Rotary Club of Haliburton Charitable Trust$200
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$0
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $250,000–299,9993 positions
- $200,000–249,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions610
- Total compensation, all staff$100.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karen Jensen (governor); Cynthia Chan Reynolds (governor); Doris Stamml (governor); Cory Bryan (governor); Don Gillespie (governor); Kerri Davies (governor); Lisa Reed (governor); Tim Kennaley (governor); Keirsten Singh (governor (student)); Michael Nasello (governor); Sudha Datta (governor); Marc Patenaude (governor (administrative)); Maureen Adamson (college president); Laura Coles (governor (support staff)); Todd Hataley (governor (academi)).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Sir Sandford Fleming College of Applied Arts and Technology’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107982845RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.