Upper Grand Learning Foundation
Charitable organization · Guelph, Ontario · BN 894450444RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($746,300) as filed with the CRA.
Upper Grand Learning Foundation is a charitable organization based in Guelph, Ontario, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $939K in revenue and $746K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from donations, 16% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $279K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 84% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $387K in 2020 to $939K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Support schools and students of the upper grand district school board across wellington and dufferin counties by collecting donations to support classroom resources equipment and program support. The upper grand learning foundation also provides the administration support for various scholarships and awards issued to students in wellington and dufferin counties to assist in higher education.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $939K | $746K | $726K | — | — | $3.4M |
| 2023 | $850K | $591K | $571K | — | — | $3.2M |
| 2022 | $550K | $429K | — | — | — | $3M |
| 2021 | $637K | $350K | — | — | — | $2.9M |
| 2020 | $387K | $426K | — | — | — | $2.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $279K from 18 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$87K
- Canadahelps Canadon$87K
- Orangeville Baptist Church$32K
- BenefAction Foundation$21K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Dufferin Community Foundation$9,375
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,529
- Canada Gives$5,000
- The Guelph Community Foundation$5,000
- The Guelph Community Foundation$5,000
- The Guelph Community Foundation$2,500
- Mazon Canada$2,500
- The Guelph Community Foundation$2,000
- Link Charity Canada Inc$1,000
- Centre Wellington Community Foundation$1,000
- The Fergus-Elora Rotary Foundation$500
- Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire$500
- Community Foundation Grey Bruce$50
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Waterston (president); Gillian Prieur (secretary); Dan Waterston (officer); Jill Melo-Graydon (officer); Kevin Taylor (officer); Glen Regier (treasurer); Jennifer Tulloch (officer); Jennifer Edwards.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Upper Grand Learning Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 894450444RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.