Wilfrid Laurier University
Publicly funded institution · Waterloo, Ontario · BN 108208786RR0002 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($429,489,999) as filed with the CRA.
Wilfrid Laurier University 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 $445.7M in revenue and $429.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from government. In 2024, 46 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.1M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 1,709 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $644 in 2024, the largest being $500 to Brant Food for Thought. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 28 names.
In its own words
The primary purpose of wilfrid laurier university is to provide post-secondary education at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. The university provides education programs in eight academic faculties: arts science business & economics music social work liberal arts human and social services and education.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $445.7M | $429.5M | $413.5M | $3.8M | $644 | $344.1M |
| 2023 | $437.2M | $421M | $405.6M | $3.5M | $940 | $306.8M |
| 2022 | $399.2M | $400.1M | $385.2M | $3.3M | — | $283.7M |
| 2021 | $369.1M | $376M | $360.7M | $3.3M | — | $230.2M |
| 2020 | $391.3M | $402.5M | $369.2M | $3.1M | $7,642 | $181.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $644 to 2 qualified donees:
Received $3.1M from 46 charities:
- The Savvas Chamberlain Family Foundation$1M
- The Joyce Family Foundation$1M
- Weston Family Foundation$250K
- RBC Foundation$150K
- The Goldberg Family Foundation$100K
- William Birchall Foundation$100K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$92K
- Walker Wood Foundation$59K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$50K
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$41K
- The Trottier Family Foundation/la Fondation Familiale Trottier$35K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$33K
- Enactus Canada$30K
- Julie Patel Foundation$27K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$20K
- Canada Gives$19K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$18K
- Cfuw K-W Charitable Fund$17K
- Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation$16K
- The Bradstreet Family Foundation$10K
- Itlma Foundation$10K
- The Colwyn and Jean Rich Foundation$8,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$7,500
- WCS Wildlife Conservation Society Canada$6,125
- The Winnipeg Foundation$6,016
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over3 positions
- $300,000–349,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,709
- Total compensation, all staff$247.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mohammad Abu-Rshaid (governor); Royce Bodaly (governor); Shelley Boettger (governor); Simon Chan (vice-chair); Ling Chu (governor); Catharine Dutt (governor); Ryan Eldred (governor); Paul Elliott (chair); Chinyere Enl (governor); Adam Grogan (governor); Andrew Herman (governor); Chantal Huinink (governor); Abas Kanu (governor); Lindsay Lawrence (governor); Kristine Lund (governor); Ken Maly (governor); Deborah Maclatchy (governor); Janis Monture (governor); James Phillips (governor); Patricia Polischuk (secretary); Michael Ras (governor); Marc Richardson (treasurer); Ken Seiling (governor); Cynthia Sundberg (governor); Doug Treleaven (governor); Peter Urquhart (governor); Berry Vrbanovic (governor); Avonwy Peters (governor).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wilfrid Laurier University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108208786RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.