Universal Educational Institute of Canada
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 139482715RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($976,206) as filed with the CRA.
Universal Educational Institute of Canada is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, 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 $643K in revenue and $976K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 9% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 6 qualified donees totalling $38K in 2024, the largest being $10K to Moral Arc Foundation. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $3.7M in 2020 to $643K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
To establish institutions for higher jewish religious education and learning in order to promote the orthodox jewish religion.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $643K | $976K | $440K | $355K | $38K | $894K |
| 2023 | $139K | $521K | $384K | $2,563 | $104K | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $984K | $512K | $303K | $159K | $1.6M |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $2.7M | $2.6M | $313 | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $3.7M | $3M | $2.8M | $45K | — | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $38K to 6 qualified donees:
- Moral Arc Foundation$10K
- VMM Zichron Chaim Charity$8,178
- Edmonton Hebrew Association-Congregation Beth Israel$5,900
- Yeshiva Gedolah l'Ecole d'Etudes Superieures de Montreal/yesshiva Gedolah the School of Higher Learning of Montreal$5,000
- École juive sepharadic/The sepharadic cheder$5,000
- The Kadima Foundation$4,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$195K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mavis Halliday (secretary-treasurer); David Ghermezian (president/director); Mark Crisp (vice president/director); Daniel Person (director); Morris Blayways (director); Tucker Gilbert (director); Jason Cairns (director); David Despins (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Universal Educational Institute of Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 139482715RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.