University of Toronto Schools
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 866956204RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($29,992,575) as filed with the CRA.
University of Toronto Schools is a charitable organization based in Toronto, 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 $29.3M in revenue and $30M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from other charities. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.7M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 88% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 119 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
University of toronto schools (uts) is a university preparatory school grade 7-12 affiliated with the university of toronto (u of t). Uts offers high achieving students a specialized curriculum and a unique co-educational learning environment that encourages creative interests physical activity as well as sense of social responsibility.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $29.3M | $30M | $20.2M | $905K | — | $16.6M |
| 2023 | $27.2M | $26.1M | $17.5M | $785K | $41K | $17.3M |
| 2022 | $24.1M | $22.7M | $15.2M | $690K | $63K | $16.1M |
| 2021 | $22.1M | $20.3M | $14.1M | $762K | $39K | $14.8M |
| 2020 | $21.6M | $19.4M | $13.6M | $954K | $39K | $13.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5.7M from 24 charities:
- Uts Foundation$5.1M
- Liber Ero Foundation$163K
- The Henry White Kinnear Foundation$150K
- Toronto Foundation$48K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$39K
- The Grenadier Foundation$25K
- Hellenic Heritage Fund$25K
- Conam Charitable Foundation$15K
- Northup / Lawson Memorial Trust Fund$13K
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$10K
- Janson Family Foundation$10K
- United Way of Greater Toronto$9,723
- Canadahelps Canadon$6,340
- Canadian Occupational Therapy Foundation la Fondation Canadienne d'Ergotherapie$5,100
- Loran Scholars Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$2,754
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,040
- Cseg Foundation$2,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,000
- Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara$1,500
- Stratford Shakespearean Festival of Canada$1,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$650
- Burlington Community Foundation$550
- The Rogan Foundation$250
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9994 positions
- $160,000–199,9994 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions119
- Total compensation, all staff$19.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Donald Ainslie (director); Peter Buzzi (director-chair); Susana Doniz Firka (director); Martha Tory (director); Anthony Lundy (director); Flora Chen (director); Tom Macmillan (director); Marianne Anderson (director); Carol Shirtliff-Hinds (director); Mansour Alvi (director); Gina Buonaguro (director); James McIntyre (director); Zahra Mohamed (director); Kristina Bates (director); John Wilkinson (director-vice chair & secretar); Leanne Foster (ceo).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from University of Toronto Schools’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 866956204RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.