Cambridge Christian School Society
Publicly funded institution · Cambridge, Ontario · BN 106834138RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,461,843) as filed with the CRA.
Cambridge Christian School Society is a charitable organization based in Cambridge, 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $2.6M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 45% from donations. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $114K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $2,330 in 2024, the largest being $1,900 to Mission Aviation Fellowship of Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Our mission is to provide Christ-centred high quality primary education and to nurture our students' intellectual spiritual social emotional and physical growth. We also offer preschool.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $2.5M | $2.2M | $62K | $2,250 | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $1.9M | $32K | — | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1.7M | $37K | $1,462 | $2M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.5M | $21K | — | $2M |
| 2020 | $2M | $1.7M | $1.5M | $13K | — | $2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2,330 to 3 qualified donees:
Received $114K from 11 charities:
- Bridgeway Foundation$63K
- River Dali Foundation$23K
- Christian School Foundation (Canada) Inc.$18K
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,086
- Christian Stewardship Services$2,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,713
- Link Charity Canada Inc$1,000
- Gillott Family Trust$800
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$656
- Vandebelt Charitable Trust$600
- Avenue Road Baptist Church$200
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 positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jessica Vanderloo (director); Nathan Kikkert (treasurer); Lisa Escalante (director); Seth Partridge (chair); Sean Bredin (director); Mariya Pops (director); Nathan Wassink (vice chair); Tirzah Balzer (secretary); Anthony DiGiacomo (director); Sietse Aart Smit (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cambridge Christian School Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106834138RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.