Trillium Educational Initiative Charitable Corporation
Publicly funded institution · Guelph, Ontario · BN 871272894RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,828,952) as filed with the CRA.
Trillium Educational Initiative Charitable Corporation 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $1.7M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $52K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Offering education to children from kindergarten until grade eight as well as parent and child classes from birth until 4 years old
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.7M | $1.8M | $1.5M | $16K | — | $40K |
| 2023 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.3M | $16K | — | $190K |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | — | $73K |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $1M | $62 | — | $102K |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.8M | $1.5M | $13K | — | $36K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $52K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alain Carriere (treasurer); Michael Craig (chair (leave of absence)); Jessica Gladio (member at large); Cheryl Hulme (director); George Ivanoff (secretary); Lynne McNab (director); John Wright (director); Sophie Wilmer (iterim chair); Kevork Tanielia (director); Stefanie Ly (member at large); Phaedra Crosby (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Trillium Educational Initiative Charitable Corporation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 871272894RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.