Registered charity

Mcmaster University

Legal name on the register: MCMASTER UNIVERSITY

CA-E-BSDA-604XCurrentCanada (federal)Ontario4 independent sources

$1.5BRevenue reported

$241.7MPublic money on record

35On the board

27Organisations connected

4Independent publishers

96/100Evidence depth

October 24, 2026Latest source capture

On the record

Identifier: CA-E-BSDA-604X
Address: OJN409 - 1280 MAIN ST W, HAMILTON, ON, L8S 4L8
Earliest record: May 28, 2004
Also known as: McMaster University Hamilton · Venture Academy · Rural Ontario Medical Program · McMaster University, Centre for Evidence-Based Orthopaedics · MIRA | Dixon Hall Centre · McMaster Engineering Community Outreach- Venture Academy

Identifiers held

Charity registration: 119035988RR0001
Business number: 119035988
Business number: 119260685
Legal Entity Identifier: 549300Y5CYZW8KAMJK42

Global legal identity. This organisation carries a Legal Entity Identifier in the GLEIF system. The LEI is evidence attached to this entities.ca record; it does not replace the permanent Canadian Entity Identifier. Open the GLEIF source record.

Evidence depth

96/100

Deep record

This scores the depth of the public evidence assembled here. It does not score the organisation’s quality, reputation, solvency or risk. The formula is fixed and reproducible. See the formula.

Identityregistrations and identifiers

Operationsmunicipal licences

Filed figuresfinancials or workforce

Public moneycontracts or grants

Relationshipsfiled board or organisation links

Qualificationsstanding offers or supply arrangements

Public activitypermits and recorded work

Regulatorydecided findings

Dated historyevents with effective dates

Additional graph evidence outside the score: 27 organisation connections.

Public footprint · version 1

Where this organisation appears in public records

Eight independent dimensions describe the size and shape of the evidence. They are deliberately not added into one company score: a licence, a grant, a director filing and a court finding mean different things.

Footprint is not performance.

A larger bar means more public records of that kind. It does not mean better, worse, safer, larger, more profitable or more reputable.

Identityregistries, identifiers and corroboration

100

Operationslicences and operating places

Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce

Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records

100

Public activitypermits and recorded work

Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations

Regulatorydecided public findings

Historydated span and recorded events

100

Each dimension uses fixed, logarithmic caps so one dataset with thousands of repeated rows cannot drown out every other fact. Read the formula and limits.

Registrations

Registrar	Instrument	Number	Registered	Status
Canada Revenue Agency	Registered charity	119035988RR0001	—	Registered
Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)	Legal Entity Identifier	549300Y5CYZW8KAMJK42	October 30, 2014	ACTIVE — LEI ISSUED · GLEIF FULLY_CORROBORATED

Board and officers on record (35)

Name	Position	Serving since	Status
Rishav Jaiswal	Director	July 1, 2024	current
Arlene Dosen	Director	July 1, 2024	current
Lance Trumble	Director	July 1, 2024	current
Megumi Harada	Director	July 1, 2024	current
Susan McCracken	Director	July 1, 2024	current
Mayu Nishimura	Director	July 1, 2024	current
Michael Ramsay	Director	January 11, 2024	current
Wayne Purboo	Director	July 1, 2023	current
Saara Greene	Director	July 1, 2023	current
Catherine Anderson	Director	July 1, 2023	current
Nicole Agyei-Odame	Director	July 1, 2023	current
Ben Menka	Director	July 1, 2023	current
Stephen Elop	Director	July 1, 2022	current
Mamdouh Shoukri	Director	July 1, 2022	current
Justin Boye	Director	July 1, 2022	current
Barry Hill	Director	July 1, 2022	current
Brenda Vrkljan	Director	July 1, 2022	current
Natalia Lishchyna	Director	April 8, 2021	current
Ryan Clarke	Director	December 3, 2020	current
Susan Tighe	Director	July 1, 2020	current
Dina Brooks	Director	July 1, 2020	current
Santee Smith	Director	September 1, 2019	current
Andrea Thyret-Kidd	Director	July 15, 2019	current
Michael Ferencich	Director	June 20, 2019	current
Robert Walker	Director	December 13, 2018	current
Jane Allen	Director and Chair	August 24, 2018	current
Lisa Brown	Director	July 1, 2018	current
David Farrar	Director	December 1, 2017	current
Kevin Nye	Director	September 14, 2016	current
Jennifer Rowe	Director and Vice Chair	September 2, 2016	current
Bradley Merkel	Director	May 1, 2014	current
Sandra Cruickshanks	Director	July 1, 2013	current
Fareen Samji	Director	July 1, 2013	current
David Huctwith	Director	—	current
Silvia Stankovic	Director	—	current

Filed by the charity itself with the Canada Revenue Agency, under the Open Government Licence. This is the narrowest slate the source publishes — name, position, and tenure only; no address, phone, or email exists in the file to withhold. Why this is published and directors’ home addresses never are.

Organisations sharing a filed director name (27)

Every one of these rests on a single name in common, which is the weakest form this evidence takes — read them as leads, not findings.

Organisation	Kind	Names in common
Ableliving Services INC. CA-E-D437-M3AV	Registered charity	1
Alberni Valley Neighbourlink Society CA-E-A3RX-BJG2	Registered charity	1
Capability Support Services INC. CA-E-KW8C-DH39	Registered charity	1
Centre For Spiritual Awareness Victoria Society CA-E-NSTS-MAG2	Registered charity	1
Danforth Jewish Circle CA-E-WKD4-MYHF	Registered charity	1
Diocesan Synod Of Western Newfoundland CA-E-7DGA-6M78	Registered charity	1
Idlewyld Manor CA-E-B0GG-TZKC	Registered charity	1
Jones Lake Baptist Church (independent) Of Moncton CA-E-Z1F0-42AG	Registered charity	1
L'Association de l'aréna du Centre de la Gatineau Inc. CA-E-3Q3V-78DM	Registered charity	1
Mcmaster Divinity College CA-E-Y4XY-D7R9	Registered charity	1
Ottawa Safety Council CA-E-2PJ7-4QCQ	Registered charity	1
Royal Botanical Gardens CA-E-Z3H4-GQN8	Registered charity	1
Sechelt Seniors Activity Centre Society CA-E-QE9Q-RWK9	Registered charity	1
Soulstream Initiatives CA-E-DZ5Q-02SD	Registered charity	1
Springfield Heights Nursery School INC. CA-E-2NGE-RP0K	Registered charity	1
St Christopher House Community Endowment CA-E-AS0Q-HP5C	Registered charity	1
St. Peter's Care Centres CA-E-JQ29-ZCM4	Registered charity	1
St. Thomas University CA-E-RG75-2J56	Registered charity	1
Stephen Leacock Associates CA-E-485R-A171	Registered charity	1
The Clarke Family Scholarship Trust CA-E-JYN3-28MW	Registered charity	1
The Corporation of Lorne Park Baptist Church CA-E-BBYP-69XD	Registered charity	1
The Governing Council Of The Salvation Army In Canada/conseil De Direction De L'armée Du Salut Du Canada CA-E-8W5R-QR2Y	Registered charity	1
The Lisa And Allan Brown Family Foundation CA-E-4D7Y-WMMA	Registered charity	1
The Morley Greene Family Foundation CA-E-BPJC-FPS2	Registered charity	1
The Spring Ridge - Fernwood Community Housing Land Trust CA-E-KKTN-Q2JX	Registered charity	1

Showing the 25 strongest of 27.

One name in common is a lead. Two is a link. These come from the director names each organisation filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, matched exactly as filed, and two people can share a name — across the whole corpus 95% of these rest on a single name, so a single match is genuinely weak evidence and is presented as such rather than dressed up. Two of the same names on the same pair of boards is a different matter: coincidence stops being a plausible explanation. A name appearing on more than eight boards is discarded outright as a probable collision.

The link is between organisations and carries only a count. Which people sit on which board stays on each organisation’s own page, exactly as the CRA published it, and there is deliberately no way here to search by a person or to list what one individual is involved in. Why that line is drawn there.

What it raised and spent — year ended April 30, 2024

Total revenue: $1,516,441,000
Total spending: $1,378,879,183
Total assets: $4,025,768,000
Total liabilities: $1,720,079,000

Receipted donations: $16,015,484
From other charities: $35,506,849
Granted onward: $108,817

Charitable programs97.3% · $1.3B · line 5000

Management and administration2.1% · $29.4M · line 5010

Fundraising0.6% · $7.9M · line 5020

These are the charity’s own figures. They come from the T3010 return it filed with the Canada Revenue Agency, which is a statement the organisation makes about itself rather than an audit or an assessment of it. They are also a single year: a charity that received a capital gift, sold a building, or ran a campaign will look unlike itself.

A low share spent on programs is not by itself evidence of anything. Fundraising costs money, a year of building a reserve looks like underspending, and grant-making foundations pass money onward rather than running programs. The lines are shown as filed, with the CRA line numbers, so a reader can check them against the return.

Public money on record

Federal contracts

$13,577,245

across 156 awards, 2004–2026

2004$104K

2005$375K

2006$28K

2008$52K

2009$48K

2012$60K

2013$54K

2014$133K

2015$48K

2016$80K

2017$300K

2018$561K

2019$717K

2020$1.1M

2021$3.0M

2022$1.1M

2023$2.3M

2024$914K

2025$1.5M

2026$1.1M

Paying institution	Awards	Value
National Defence	29	$4,865,497
Public Health Agency of Canada	22	$3,972,307
Natural Resources Canada	44	$1,272,132
Health Canada	10	$1,003,309
Public Safety Canada	1	$630,000
Transport Canada	10	$449,845
Employment and Social Development Canada	4	$426,628
National Research Council Canada	11	$420,524
Fisheries and Oceans Canada	8	$167,273
Environment and Climate Change Canada	7	$124,704

Federal grants and contributions

$228,150,903

across 216 agreements, 2006–2026

2006$232K

2007$62K

2008$134K

2009$33K

2011$12.3M

2012$1.2M

2013$802K

2014$655K

2015$170K

2016$351K

2017$470K

2018$7.4M

2019$18.0M

2020$39.9M

2021$24.3M

2022$20.3M

2023$31.3M

2024$32.7M

2025$27.6M

2026$10.1M

Paying institution	Awards	Value
Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada	32	$140,711,375
Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada	5	$14,981,750
Health Canada	9	$13,853,488
Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario	2	$11,200,000
Canadian Institutes of Health Research	2	$11,054,860
Employment and Social Development Canada	62	$9,792,718
National Research Council Canada	35	$8,015,720
Environment and Climate Change Canada	19	$4,617,223
Global Affairs Canada	15	$2,932,738
Indigenous Services Canada	2	$2,482,700

Value as published, not money paid. The federal contract value field includes the ceiling of standing offers and supply arrangements — purchasing capacity a department may never draw on. A large figure here can mean a large ceiling rather than a large payment.

Awards are attached to this record only where the evidence identifies exactly one organisation: a name and postal area that narrow to a single company, or a name unique across the whole national corpus. Proactive publication truncates the vendor postal code to three characters, so anything that could belong to more than one company is left unattached rather than guessed at. Totals are a floor in that direction. The full rules.

Qualified to supply the government (2)

Commodity	Buying department	Agreement type	Awarded	Expires
86131800 — 86131800 - Military education	Department of National Defence	NISO	April 1, 2025	April 30, 2030
86121700; 86131800 — 86121700 - University and colleges; 86131800 - Military education	Department of National Defence	NISO	March 21, 2025	April 30, 2030

This is a different fact from public money above: a standing offer or supply arrangement means the government has pre-agreed to buy specific goods or services from this organisation at set terms if it chooses to — it does not mean any money has changed hands. The source publishes only currently active agreements and carries no dollar figure at all, unlike the contract value field, which sometimes states a ceiling rather than a payment. How this is attached.

What it does

Industry code: 54151 · 54171 · 541710 · 611310 · 621510
North American Industry Classification System

Trade and licence class are the publisher’s own words, kept as written rather than mapped onto a vocabulary of this site’s invention — a Calgary “RESTAURANT” and a Montréal “Restaurant service rapide” describe the same thing and are not the same string, and pretending otherwise would put words in a city’s mouth. The industry code is the exception: NAICS is a standard shared across Canada, the United States and Mexico, so it means the same thing wherever it appears. Only some publishers assign one.

Timeline

June 30, 2026Federal contract — Health Canada$32,300
June 16, 2026Federal contract — National Defence$510,000
June 16, 2026Federal contract — National Defence$310,000
June 11, 2026Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$13,984
June 1, 2026Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$29,995
June 1, 2026Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$30,000
May 6, 2026Federal contract — Natural Resources Canada$12,000
April 1, 2026Federal grant — Polar Knowledge Canada$34,125
April 1, 2026Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$2,498,266
April 1, 2026Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$2,470,372
March 31, 2026Federal grant — Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission$129,944
March 31, 2026Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$22,413
March 30, 2026Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$39,975
March 24, 2026Federal grant — Health Canada$666,287
March 16, 2026Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$363,000
March 10, 2026Federal grant — Canada Water Agency$200,000
March 6, 2026Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$25,000
February 24, 2026Federal grant — Health Canada$826,925
February 16, 2026Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$35,496
January 19, 2026Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$775,000
January 16, 2026Federal contract — Health Canada$73,794
January 16, 2026Federal contract — National Defence$18,750
January 15, 2026Federal grant — Health Canada$2,000,000
January 13, 2026Federal contract — Health Canada$113,000
December 5, 2025Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$786,250
November 6, 2025Federal contract — Natural Resources Canada$39,900
November 1, 2025Federal grant — Canadian Heritage$377,732
November 1, 2025Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$495,000
October 20, 2025Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$24,550
October 17, 2025Federal contract — Natural Resources Canada$39,500
September 10, 2025Federal contract — National Research Council Canada$20,000
September 2, 2025Federal contract — Global Affairs Canada$39,900
September 1, 2025Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$300,000
August 22, 2025Federal contract — National Defence$208,633
August 13, 2025Federal contract — National Defence$24,751
August 7, 2025Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$30,000
July 3, 2025Federal grant — National Research Council Canada$10,000
July 2, 2025Federal grant — Natural Resources Canada$49,500
June 12, 2025Federal contract — National Defence$310,000
June 10, 2025Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$4,093,116

Showing the 40 most recent of 200 dated events.

Why this is one record

7 public datasets from 4 independent publishers describe this organisation. They were joined into one record because the evidence below agreed — never on a matching name alone.

Same name and postal code L8S 4L8
asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)

An automatic merge requires a shared business number, or a matching name AND address — never a name by itself. How resolution works.

Where this record comes from

Dataset	Last captured	Cadence	Coverage kept	Health
Registered charities — directors and officers (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 2, 2026	P1Y	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current
Registered charities — financial data (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 5, 2026	P1Y	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current
Registered charities — identification (2024 returns) Canada Revenue Agency · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 8, 2026	P1Y	2 captures · 1 comparisons	current
Proactive publication — federal contracts over $10,000 Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 1, 2026	P3M	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current
Proactive disclosure — federal grants and contributions Treasury Board of Canada Secretariat · Open Government Licence – Canada	September 3, 2026	P3M	1 captures · 0 comparisons	current
Active federal standing offers and supply arrangements (SOSA) Public Services and Procurement Canada · Open Government Licence – Canada	October 23, 2026	P7D	4 captures · 3 comparisons	current
Global LEI Index — Canadian legal entities Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) · Public Domain — CC0 1.0 Universal	October 24, 2026	P1D	5 captures · 4 comparisons	due

Freshness is measured, not implied. “Last captured” is when this project last completed a read of the whole source dataset. “Coverage kept” is how many immutable captures and meaningful capture-to-capture comparisons are available. A missed day remains an explicit gap; a later snapshot cannot tell us what happened inside it. See every source.

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