The Upper Grand District School Board
Publicly funded institution · Guelph, Ontario · BN 892228826RR0002 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($560,433,853) as filed with the CRA.
The Upper Grand District School Board is a charitable organization based in Guelph, 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $552.2M in revenue and $560.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 96% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $9,300.
Its highest-paid positions fell in the $250,000–299,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 3,541 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The upper grand district school board serves more than 35 000 students through 65 elementary schools and 11 secondary schools in the city of guelph county of wellington and county of dufferin. The ugdsb covers the ancestral and traditional territories of the mississaugas of the credit the six nations of the grand river and saugeen ojibway nation territories. Inspiring a love of learning and developing engaged globally literate citizens is the shared purpose of our board of trustees executive committee and more than 4 000 dedicated education and support staff who are aided by the contribu…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $552.2M | $560.4M | — | — | — | $74.5M |
| 2023 | $499.5M | $504M | $486.1M | $4M | — | $82.7M |
| 2022 | $462.8M | $462.8M | — | — | — | $95M |
| 2021 | $450.8M | $453.4M | — | — | — | $95M |
| 2020 | $426.5M | $416.2M | — | — | — | $97.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $9,300 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9992 positions
- $200,000–249,9996 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3,541
- Total compensation, all staff$452.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ralf Mesenbrink (chairperson); Katherine Hauser (vice-chair); Irene Hanenberg (trustee); Alethia O'Hara-Stephenson (trustee); Luke Weiler (trustee); Laurie Whyte (trustee); Jen Edwards (trustee); Lynn Topping (trustee); Martha Macneil (trustee); Robin Ross (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Upper Grand District School Board’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892228826RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.