Cambridge District Association for Christian Education
Publicly funded institution · Breslau, Ontario · BN 118826221RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,171,556) as filed with the CRA.
Cambridge District Association for Christian Education is a charitable organization based in Breslau, 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 $6.3M in revenue and $6.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 29% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $423K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 28 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $17K in 2024, the largest being $11K to Ray of Hope Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Operating as woodland christian high school to provide a secondary level education with christian perspectives to children living in and surrounding the areas of cambridge kitchener/waterloo guelph drayton and listowel.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.3M | $6.2M | $5.5M | $158K | $17K | $5.1M |
| 2023 | $5.8M | $5.5M | $5M | $53K | $39K | $5M |
| 2022 | $4.9M | $5.2M | $4.7M | $40K | $16K | $4.7M |
| 2021 | $4.9M | $4.7M | $4.2M | $62K | $106K | $4.8M |
| 2020 | $5.1M | $4.6M | $4.1M | $38K | $13K | $4.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $17K to 4 qualified donees:
Received $423K from 19 charities:
- Bridgeway Foundation$150K
- Christian School Foundation (Canada) Inc.$73K
- Christian Stewardship Services$72K
- D.H. Falle Family Foundation$30K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- Legacy Foundation of Canada$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- Bethel Christian Reformed Church of Listowel$7,265
- Palmerston Christian Reformed Church$7,196
- Link Charity Canada Inc$5,000
- The First Christian Reformed Church of Kitchener Inc.$4,607
- Christian Reformed Church of Drayton$3,400
- Water Street Christian Reformed Church of Guelph$3,000
- Bethel Christian Reformed Church of Acton Ont.$1,819
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$1,000
- Gillott Family Trust$1,000
- New Life Christian Reformed Church of Guelph$909
- Waterloo Christian Reformed Church$655
- 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:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions28
- Total compensation, all staff$3.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jim Kleefman (treasurer); Joy Schuurman (director); Rick Groot (director); Andrea Bootsma (chair); Michael Hobbs (vice-chair); Marion Marshall (director); Arnold Rumph (director); Leonard Graham (director); Janice Barnhoorn (director); Meghan Klein-Geltink (secretary); Tim DeVries (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cambridge District Association for Christian Education’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118826221RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.