Calvary Christian Academy
Publicly funded institution · Smiths Falls, Ontario · BN 880514963RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,235,110) as filed with the CRA.
Calvary Christian Academy is a charitable organization based in Smiths Falls, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from donations, 8% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $235K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 84% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $568 in 2024, the largest being $568 to The Terry Fox Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $2.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Calvary christian academy offers a preschool program (appleseeds) a program for elementary-aged children from junior kindergarten to grade 8 and a high school program to grade 12. Christian virtues morals values and ethics are taught and encouraged by our teachers staff and volunteers.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.2M | $2.1M | $15K | — | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $2M | $1.9M | $1.8M | $14K | $524 | $1.4M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $8,280 | $896 | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.2M | $11K | $763 | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $25K | $1,165 | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $568 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $235K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Terry Wills (chairman); Cynthia Adegbile (treasurer); Mark Lyons (other (director)); Esther Houle (secretary); Doug Sprunt (other (director)).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Calvary Christian Academy’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 880514963RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.