University of Windsor
Publicly funded institution · Windsor, Ontario · BN 108162611RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($442,646,000) as filed with the CRA.
University of Windsor is a charitable organization based in Windsor, 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 $464.1M in revenue and $442.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 32% from government. In 2024, 49 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 1,554 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 28 names.
In its own words
The university of windsor an education institution funded principally by grants from the province of ontario and tuition fees charged to its' student is registered as a charitable institution so that gifts for scholarships prizes for scholastic achievements and other gifts (e.g to purchase library books gifts to building funds) may be recognized by an offical receipt which may be used by the donors for income tax purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $464.1M | $442.6M | $401M | $2.3M | — | $295.7M |
| 2023 | $446.1M | $426.6M | $382.1M | $2.2M | $5,845 | $188.5M |
| 2022 | $401.7M | $387.1M | $351.9M | $1.8M | $1,000 | $178M |
| 2021 | $408.2M | $361.8M | $332.4M | $1.8M | $20K | $198.6M |
| 2020 | $366.5M | $389.7M | $346.4M | $1.8M | $4,000 | $104.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.6M from 49 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$503K
- The Toldo Foundation$400K
- Windsor Cancer Centre Foundation$100K
- The Chandisherry Foundation$100K
- Kenneth M. Molson Foundation$75K
- Cancer Research Society$60K
- Breast Cancer Canada Cancer du sein du Canada$50K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$41K
- The Prostate Cancer Fight Foundation$30K
- Winston and Donna Yee Family Foundation$30K
- Katelyn Bedard Bone Marrow Association$25K
- Windsoressex Community Foundation$20K
- Toronto Foundation$18K
- Chartered Professional Accountants of Ontario Foundation$15K
- Gulu Thadani Foundation$15K
- Walker Wood Foundation$15K
- The Canadian Bar Law for the Future Fund$15K
- The Morris and Beverly Baker Foundation$12K
- The Bierer Foundation$10K
- Ontario Professional Engineers Foundation for Education$9,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$8,865
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,650
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$7,240
- The Calgary Foundation$7,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,554
- Total compensation, all staff$295.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chris Baillargeon (member student); Mohammed Fazle Baki (member); Carolyn Brown (member 1st vice-chair); John Cappucci (member); Brian Cowell (member); Shari Cunningham (member); Megan Evans (member); Tiffany Gooch (member); Robert Gordon (member president); Lisa Milne (member staff); Celso Oliveira (member sessional inst.); Rana Olwan (member); Helga Reidel (member chair); Mike Ruthard (member); Debbie Sheppard-Lemoine (member faculty dean); Mario Sonego (member); Bruce Tucker (member); Susan Williams (member); Irene Moore Davis (member); Beth Ann Prince (member); Lionel Walsh (member faculty); Daniel Ableser (member); Kenneth Alexander (member); Ferruccio Da Sacco (member); Ghallia Hashem (member student); Eric Joshi (member student); Jennifer Rooke (member); Bill Van Heyst (member faculty).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from University of Windsor’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108162611RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.