Classroom Champions
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 806545836RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,128,840) as filed with the CRA.
Classroom Champions is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $6.4M in revenue and $6.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from donations. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $201K.
Compared with 632 education charities 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 $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 15 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.8M in 2020 to $6.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Classroom champions provides leadership training programs and workshops to educate youth; network and development opportunities for educators; community building activities to enrich the lives of youth and families; and programming opportunities to develop quality role models in society.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.4M | $6.1M | $5.3M | $484K | — | $1.9M |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $3.5M | $2.8M | $410K | — | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $3.3M | $3M | $192K | — | $643K |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1.6M | $234K | — | $668K |
| 2020 | $2.8M | $2.5M | $2.2M | $233K | — | -$500K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $201K from 11 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$117K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- RBC Foundation$15K
- SAF Community Foundation$15K
- SAF Community Foundation$4,200
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,011
- The Read Family Foundation$2,500
- The Calgary Foundation$2,000
- The Myron and Catherine Tetreault Foundation$1,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions15
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Elexis Gillette (director); William Hite (director); Christine Jacobs (director); Jay King (director); Steven Mesler (president); Leigh Mesler-Parise (director); Lisa Monarski (director); Kate Pereira (secretary); Seth Rosenzweig (president & ceo); Andrew Rotherham (director); David Steel (director); Christian Taylor (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Classroom Champions’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 806545836RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.