York University
Publicly funded institution · Toronto, Ontario · BN 119306736RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,410,440,155) as filed with the CRA.
York University 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $1.3B in revenue and $1.4B in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from government. In 2024, 88 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.4M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $350,000 and over range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 5,242 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 22 names.
In its own words
York University provided the following programs/activities: - Undergraduate degree programs - Graduate degree programs - Non-credit courses - Sponsored research - Ancillary operations (for the benefit of students)
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3B | $1.4B | $1.3B | $6.1M | $0 | $1.9B |
| 2023 | $1.3B | $1.3B | $1.2B | $6.3M | — | $1.9B |
| 2022 | $1.3B | $1.2B | $1.2B | $5.2M | — | $1.8B |
| 2021 | $1.2B | $1.2B | $1.1B | $5.3M | — | $1.9B |
| 2020 | $1.3B | $1.1B | $1.1B | $5.1M | — | $1.7B |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4.4M from 88 charities:
- The Bennett Family Foundation$500K
- The Waugh Family Foundation$438K
- The Jay and Barbara Hennick Family Foundation$400K
- RBC Foundation$250K
- Canadian Foundation for Physically Disabled Persons$220K
- Hellenic Heritage Fund$216K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$125K
- A Way Home: Working Together to End Youth Homelessness$121K
- Cancer Research Society$120K
- The Schulich Foundation$100K
- Carswell Family Foundation$100K
- Makeway Foundation$100K
- Weston Family Foundation$100K
- Max Bell Foundation$90K
- Legacy Private Trust Foundation$83K
- The Goldberg Family Foundation$80K
- The Lillian Meighen and Don Wright Foundation$79K
- The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada/societe de Leucemie & Lymphome du Canada$75K
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$75K
- The Krembil Foundation$70K
- Brain Canada Foundation$68K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$67K
- The Azrieli Foundation$66K
- Aqueduct Foundation$59K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$55K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over10 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5,242
- Total compensation, all staff$987.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Francesca Accinelli (member); Joanie Cameron Pritchett (member); Antonio Di Domenico (member); Konata Lake (member); Loretta Lam (member); Rhonda Lenton (member); Helen Polatajko (member); Eugene Roman (member); Kenneth Silver (member); Mary Traversy (member); Paul Tsaparis (chair); Bobbi-Jean White (member); Stefanie Lamonaca Caputo (member); Shamshad Madhok (member); Nadine Spencer (member); Ariana Mah (member); Kathleen Taylor (member); Sheraz Arshad (member); Marie-Helene Budworth (member); Uma Gopinath (member); Ruth Green (member); Kimberley Murray (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from York University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119306736RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.