British Columbia Christian Academy Society
Publicly funded institution · Port Coquitlam, British Columbia · BN 898976287RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($10,725,584) as filed with the CRA.
British Columbia Christian Academy Society is a charitable organization based in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $11.3M in revenue and $10.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from donations, 48% from government. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $180K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 114 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 23 qualified donees totalling $37K in 2024, the largest being $14K to One Life One Chance Ministries. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Provide an independent Pre-Kindergarten to Grade 12 school and daycare with fundamental biblical teaching as well as academia. The school also provides long term and short term ESL programs for international students as well as students who are new immigrants.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.3M | $10.7M | $9.3M | $228K | $37K | $11.6M |
| 2023 | $9.8M | $9.8M | $8.5M | $270K | $16K | $11M |
| 2022 | $9.5M | $8.2M | $7.2M | $169K | $13K | $10.9M |
| 2021 | $6.8M | $6.6M | $5.7M | $60K | $10K | $9.7M |
| 2020 | $8.9M | $6.4M | $5.6M | $23K | $6,994 | $9.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $37K to 23 qualified donees:
- One Life One Chance Ministries$14K
- Cityreach CARE Society$5,000
- The Samaritan's Purse - Canada$2,740
- Christian Life Assembly$1,500
- Grace Community Evangelical Free Church$750
- Disciple Methodist Church$750
- Tricity Church$750
- Willingdon Church$750
- Broadway Pentecostal Church$750
- Northside Foursquare Church$750
- Westcoast Baptist Association$750
- Coquitlam Alliance Church$750
- Calvary Baptist Church$750
- Riverside Calvary Chapel$750
- Verbo Christian Ministries of Ontario$750
- New West Community Baptist Church$750
- Eagle Ridge Bible Fellowship$750
- Resonate Christian Church$750
- Westwood Alliance Church$750
- Village Church BC Society$750
- Vancouver Korean Presbyterian Church$750
- Westwood Community Church$750
- Compassion Canada$564
Received $180K from 8 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions114
- Total compensation, all staff$8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Noel Asirvatham (chairperson); Ioan Cota (treasurer); Elizabeth Page (director); Xiaojing Yu (director); Calvin Gray (director); Joel Conti (director); Donald Knodel (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from British Columbia Christian Academy Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898976287RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.