Registered charity
Wilfrid Laurier University
Legal name on the register: WILFRID LAURIER UNIVERSITY
CA-E-JFHZ-Z172CurrentCanada (federal)3 independent sources
$445.7MRevenue reported
$36.2MPublic money on record
35On the board
24Organisations connected
3Independent publishers
86/100Evidence depth
October 24, 2026Latest source capture
On the record
- Identifier
- CA-E-JFHZ-Z172
- Address
- 75 UNIVERSITY AVE WEST, WATERLOO, ON, N2L 3C5
- Earliest record
- October 20, 2006
- Also known as
- Laurier University · Laurier · Wilfrid Laurier · Université Wilfrid-Laurier
Identifiers held
- Charity registration
- 108208786RR0002
- Business number
- 000000000
- Business number
- 108208786
- Business number
- 732928163
- Legal Entity Identifier
- 549300Q81KPFEBUIIF35
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
86/100
Deep recordThis 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: 24 organisation connections · 2 same-address neighbours.
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
0
Filed disclosurepublic financials and workforce
60
Public moneycontracts, grants and contribution records
91
Public activitypermits and recorded work
0
Relationshipsfiled board and identifier-linked organisations
90
Regulatorydecided public findings
0
Historydated span and recorded events
95
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 | 108208786RR0002 | — | Registered |
| Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF) | Legal Entity Identifier | 549300Q81KPFEBUIIF35 | December 12, 2012 | ACTIVE — LEI LAPSED · GLEIF ENTITY_SUPPLIED_ONLY |
Board and officers on record (35)
| Name | Position | Serving since | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berry Vrbanovic | GOVERNOR | January 8, 2024 | current |
| Peter Urquhart | GOVERNOR | September 12, 2023 | current |
| Mohammad Abu-rshaid | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2023 | current |
| Ling Chu | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2023 | current |
| Catharine Dutt | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2023 | current |
| Ryan Eldred | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2023 | current |
| Adam Grogan | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2023 | current |
| Ken Maly | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2023 | current |
| Janis Monture | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2023 | current |
| Michael Ras | GOVERNOR | April 20, 2023 | current |
| Royce Bodaly | GOVERNOR | December 5, 2022 | current |
| Chantal Huinink | GOVERNOR | November 23, 2022 | current |
| Abas Kanu | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2022 | current |
| Lindsay Lawrence | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2022 | current |
| Shelley Boettger | GOVERNOR | December 16, 2021 | current |
| Avonwy Peters | GOVERNOR | December 16, 2021 | current |
| Andrew Herman | GOVERNOR | July 20, 2021 | current |
| Paul Elliott | CHAIR | July 1, 2021 | current |
| Chinyere Enl | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2021 | current |
| Simon Chan | VICE-CHAIR | June 25, 2021 | current |
| Doug Treleaven | GOVERNOR | March 25, 2021 | current |
| Kristine Lund | GOVERNOR | September 1, 2020 | current |
| Marc Richardson | TREASURER | July 1, 2020 | current |
| Ken Seiling | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2020 | current |
| Cynthia Sundberg | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2020 | current |
| James Phillips | GOVERNOR | January 12, 2019 | current |
| Deborah Maclatchy | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2017 | current |
| Patricia Polischuk | SECRETARY | July 1, 2016 | current |
| Karin Schnarr | GOVERNOR | March 23, 2023 | ended August 18, 2023 |
| Rick Sterne | GOVERNOR | November 3, 2022 | ended December 5, 2023 |
| Tyler Van Herzele | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2022 | ended June 30, 2024 |
| Brandon Vale | GOVERNOR | November 12, 2021 | ended June 30, 2024 |
| Mary Kelly | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2021 | ended June 30, 2024 |
| Savvas Chamberlain | GOVERNOR | July 1, 2019 | ended September 18, 2023 |
| Eileen Mercier | GOVERNOR | October 28, 2016 | ended June 30, 2024 |
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 (24)
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.
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.
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.
At the same address (2)
Organisations that filed the same street address and suite as this one, 75 UNIVERSITY AVE W.
| Organisation | Kind |
|---|---|
| Lyrical Lines Education Network CA-E-MK5M-52HA | Registered charity |
| Waterloo Lutheran Seminary CA-E-6F0C-3JMQ | Registered charity |
A shared door is not always a shared purpose. Sharing an address can mean one organisation with several registered arms, a building a sector clusters in, or simply a landlord. It is a fact about where filings were sent, not a claim about who controls whom.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
Addresses used here are only ones already published on these pages: where a single publisher asserts an address it is coarsened to a locality, because a registered office is very often somebody’s home. And where 25 or more organisations share one door — a registered agent or a law firm — no connection is drawn at all, because at that point the address describes the agent rather than the organisations. How address precision is decided.
What it raised and spent — year ended April 30, 2024
- Total revenue
- $445,745,000
- Total spending
- $429,489,355
- Total assets
- $1,015,043,000
- Total liabilities
- $670,980,000
- Receipted donations
- $4,471,901
- From other charities
- $1,112,493
- Granted onward
- $644
Charitable programs96.3% · $413.5M · line 5000
Management and administration2.8% · $12.2M · line 5010
Fundraising0.9% · $3.8M · 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.
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
$551,121
across 17 awards, 2009–2026
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | 8 | $257,367 |
| Natural Resources Canada | 3 | $160,000 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 1 | $39,954 |
| Fisheries and Oceans Canada | 2 | $39,100 |
| Parks Canada | 2 | $34,000 |
| Correctional Service of Canada | 1 | $20,700 |
Federal grants and contributions
$35,658,060
across 96 agreements, 2006–2026
| Paying institution | Awards | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada | 23 | $25,499,898 |
| Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada | 7 | $2,878,101 |
| Federal Economic Development Agency for Southern Ontario | 2 | $1,675,000 |
| Polar Knowledge Canada | 12 | $1,632,550 |
| Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada | 4 | $1,089,836 |
| Environment and Climate Change Canada | 5 | $722,600 |
| Global Affairs Canada | 8 | $656,230 |
| Employment and Social Development Canada | 27 | $423,510 |
| Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada | 1 | $384,700 |
| Parks Canada | 4 | $339,430 |
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.
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.
What it does
- Industry code
- 541710 · 611000 · 611310North 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
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$28,825
- Federal grant — Polar Knowledge Canada$43,432
- Federal contract — Fisheries and Oceans Canada$19,550
- Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$14,385
- Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$520,000
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$10,881
- Federal contract — Correctional Service of Canada$20,700
- Federal grant — Polar Knowledge Canada$99,590
- Federal contract — Natural Resources Canada$80,000
- Federal grant — Canada Water Agency$89,405
- Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$6,970
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$2,408
- Federal grant — Polar Knowledge Canada$61,800
- Federal grant — Polar Knowledge Canada$13,326
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$3,008,432
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$31,046
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$72,527
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$20,398
- Federal grant — Parks Canada$29,520
- Federal grant — Polar Knowledge Canada$361,850
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$120,000
- Federal grant — Environment and Climate Change Canada$59,600
- Federal contract — Environment and Climate Change Canada$61,020
- Federal contract — Natural Resources Canada$40,000
- Federal grant — Global Affairs Canada$21,400
- Federal grant — Employment and Social Development Canada$2,319
- Federal grant — Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada$17,078
- Federal grant — Polar Knowledge Canada$35,000
- Federal grant — Polar Knowledge Canada$30,000
- Federal grant — Polar Knowledge Canada$25,000
- Federal grant — Polar Knowledge Canada$8,552
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$3,012,103
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$21,135
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$72,563
- Federal grant — Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada$5,444
- Federal grant — Parks Canada$24,910
- Federal grant — Parks Canada$85,000
- Federal grant — Crown-Indigenous Relations and Northern Affairs Canada$40,000
- Federal grant — Innovation, Science and Economic Development Canada$30,000
- Federal contract — Natural Resources Canada$40,000
Showing the 40 most recent of 104 dated events.
Why this is one record
6 public datasets from 3 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 N2L 3C5asserted by Canada Revenue Agency and Global Legal Entity Identifier Foundation (GLEIF)
- Same name and address — 75 university west, waterloo, ONasserted 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 |
| 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.
This page is assembled from open data. It is not an official record, and the registrar is authoritative where the two disagree. How records are assembled.
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