Waterloo Lutheran Seminary
Publicly funded institution · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 809328271RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($4,682,088) as filed with the CRA.
Waterloo Lutheran Seminary 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 $5.4M in revenue and $4.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from government. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $422K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 80% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 25 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Waterloo lutheran seminary (wls) is accredited by the association of theological schools an international accrediting body. Its degree programs are accredited buy the ontario council of graduate studies. Wls offers an undergraduate degree program and several programs at the graduate level in theology. Some students are preparing for careers in spiritual care and counselling. They will go on to work as chaplains in hospitals prisons nursing homes and institutions or into private practice offering pastoral counselling to individuals couples and families. A third stream of students are alr…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.4M | $4.7M | $4.5M | $75K | — | $21.5M |
| 2023 | $5.5M | $4.8M | $4.6M | $56K | — | $20.5M |
| 2022 | $6.2M | $4.1M | $3.9M | $70K | — | $20M |
| 2021 | $5.5M | $3.6M | $3.5M | $66K | — | $17.7M |
| 2020 | $4.3M | $3.6M | $3.5M | $64K | — | $15.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $422K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions25
- Total compensation, all staff$2.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Julianne Barlow (vice-chair); Yasir Dildar (director); Jeffrey Harris (director); Janet Noel-Annable (director); Anne Schlorff (treasurer); Kenneth Seiling (director); Penelope Smiley (chair); Mary Thompson (secretary); Pat Lovell (director); John Kendall (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Waterloo Lutheran Seminary’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 809328271RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.