Chinook Winds Adventist Academy
Publicly funded institution · Lacombe, Alberta · BN 106693047RR0040 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,582,210) as filed with the CRA.
Chinook Winds Adventist Academy is a charitable organization based in Lacombe, Alberta, 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 $3.8M in revenue and $3.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 42% from government, 19% from other charities. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $59K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 16 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
To offer a balanced quality christian education for children in pre-kindergarten to grade 12 that incorporates physical mental moral social and vocational components; and embraces seventh-day adventist denominational standards and ideals recognizing god as the source of all moral values and truth. Primary emphasis is given to character development and to laying a strong spiritual foundation for its children and youth. Chinook winds adventist academy strives to engage all students to follow god completely serve unselfishly and achieve academic excellence.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.8M | $3.6M | $2.8M | $18K | — | $910K |
| 2023 | $3.5M | $3.3M | $2.5M | $13K | — | $657K |
| 2022 | $3.1M | $3M | $2.3M | $10K | — | $408K |
| 2021 | $3.1M | $2.6M | $2M | $10K | $160 | $332K |
| 2020 | $2.9M | $2.7M | $2.1M | $47K | $1,104 | -$108K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $59K from 7 charities:
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$26K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$9,500
- Calgary Northwinds Seventh-day Adventist Church$8,388
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$6,597
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$4,905
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,100
- Calgary Metro Filipino Seventh-day Adventist Church$1,900
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions16
- Total compensation, all staff$2.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jeff Potts (president); Keith Richter (treasurer); Brent Van Rensburg (assoc superintendent of educat); Jennifer Williams (human resources); Melissa Cooke (secretary); Gail Wilton (superintendant of education).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chinook Winds Adventist Academy’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106693047RR0040), or read how we compute the receipt.