Byte Camp Education Society
Publicly funded institution · Victoria, British Columbia · BN 877212407RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($701,140) as filed with the CRA.
Byte Camp Education Society is a charitable organization based in Victoria, 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $727K in revenue and $701K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from government. In 2021, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $8,025.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $355K in 2020 to $727K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Taught creative technology skills to approximately 2000 youth aged 9-14 in after-school programs summer day camps and in school programming at 40 locations including remote First Nation Communities. Program included instruction on coding video game design 3D modeling animation and video editing. Freely available content teaching kids creative technology skills was created and shared with our community and the world online.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $727K | $701K | $621K | — | — | $209K |
| 2023 | $667K | $686K | $624K | — | — | — |
| 2022 | $710K | $724K | $667K | — | — | $202K |
| 2021 | $733K | $649K | $597K | — | — | $304K |
| 2020 | $355K | $544K | $490K | — | — | $133K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2021
Received $8,025 from 1 charity:
- First West Foundation$8,025
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$523K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tim Ewanchuk (treasurer); Vicki Klyne (president); Hlannon Hlannon (executive director); Dimitrios Marinakis (director); Lisa Read (director); Melody Kassiri (director); Adrian French (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Byte Camp Education Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 877212407RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.