Collingwood School Society
Publicly funded institution · West Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 107784399RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($44,198,317) as filed with the CRA.
Collingwood School Society is a charitable organization based in West Vancouver, British Columbia, 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 $48.5M in revenue and $44.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.6M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 208 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $89K in 2024, the largest being $83K to Collingwood School Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
The School is non-denominational and co-educational. The School’s personalized and inclusive approach fosters academic excellence and wellbeing as the students explore opportunities across academics arts athletics and service learning. With an emphasis on experiential learning collaboration character development and problem solving across disciplines the School aims to prepare graduates to join the global community as critical thinkers who are resilient socially conscious and prepared to make the most of their opportunities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $48.5M | $44.2M | $39.1M | $455K | $89K | $73.6M |
| 2023 | $44.2M | $42.4M | $37.5M | $670K | $39K | $68.2M |
| 2022 | $40.1M | $37.6M | $33.4M | $546K | $30K | $65.7M |
| 2021 | $38.6M | $36.1M | $32.2M | $312K | $26K | $63.3M |
| 2020 | $37.2M | $34M | $30.3M | $403K | $21K | $60.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $89K to 7 qualified donees:
- Collingwood School Foundation$83K
- Canadian Mental Health Association Vancouver-Fraser Branch$1,780
- A Loving Spoonful Meals Society$1,200
- Field Hockey Canada$1,000
- CKNW Kids' Fund$700
- Feed The Need In Durham$518
- UHN Foundation$200
Received $2.6M from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9996 positions
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions208
- Total compensation, all staff$30M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Debby Carreau (chair); Jose Nicolas Jimenez (chair governance & nominating); Dan Sander (chair land & mcp); Mohamed Mansour (secretary); Lydia Ventura-Paterson (treasurer); Kirsten McElgunn (director); Pauline Anderson (parents' council chair); Ariana Sairafi (chair alumni association); Adam Hill (chair nominating sub committe); Leslie Farrar (director); Riley Senft (director); Rod Talaifar (director); Martin Weinberg (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Collingwood School Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107784399RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.