United College
Publicly funded institution · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 108036302RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($8,536,441) as filed with the CRA.
United College is a charitable organization based in Waterloo, 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $10.5M in revenue and $8.5M in expenditures.
In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $234K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 75% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 29 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $9,000 in 2024, the largest being $9,000 to University of Waterloo. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 21 names.
In its own words
United college is affiliated with the university of waterloo ( uw). It's program include residential accomodation for undergraduate and graduate students and teaching religious studies international development indigenous studies indigenous entrepreneurship canadian studies and human rights courses. United facilitates the indigenous programs for uw which provides student support and liasion between the indigenous community on campus and uw. United operates the greenhouse program which provides training for student entrepreneurs to further develop an environmental or social change idea.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.5M | $8.5M | $7.7M | $23K | $9,000 | $10.1M |
| 2023 | $9.1M | $8.3M | $7.6M | $9,536 | $9,000 | $8.1M |
| 2022 | $10.1M | $7.5M | $6.9M | $11K | $9,000 | $7.4M |
| 2021 | $9.7M | $6.6M | $6M | $7,706 | $20K | $4.8M |
| 2020 | $7.8M | $10.6M | $6.4M | $30K | $26K | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $9,000 to 1 qualified donee:
- University of Waterloo$9,000
Received $234K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9994 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions29
- Total compensation, all staff$3.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tracy Primeau (director); Dami Awoleye (director); Richard Myers (principal/president); William Watson (director); Jeff Casselo (director); John Abraham (director); Uche Onuora (director); Julia Salvini (director & chair); Tracy Mann (director & vice-chair); Stephanie Horsburgh (director); Michaelle Jean (director & chancellor); Don Shilton (director); Banuja Sivarasah (director & treasurer); Linda Jussaume (director); Charlene Hone (secretary); Shreya Rao (director); Tracey Ens (director); Matt Jamieson (director); Winnie Lam (director); Allison Matthews (director); Adam Schneider (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from United College’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108036302RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.