Cultural Connections Institute - The Learning Exchange
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 890218803RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,198,845) as filed with the CRA.
Cultural Connections Institute - The Learning Exchange is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 34% from government, 12% from other charities. In 2024, 8 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $116K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 4% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Cultural connections institute - the learning exchange is an edmonton based non-profit organization without share capital. It's purpose is to offer english language classes to permanent and temporary residents of canada. The cultural connections institute (cci) program offers english language and verbal communication classes to both permanent and temporary residents of canada. Classes are taught by paid teachers with education and experience in educating adult learners of additional/second languages. The learning exchange (lex) program offers english language classes to adults with either ci…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $492K | — | — | $258K |
| 2023 | $992K | $1M | $415K | $2,501 | — | $284K |
| 2022 | $869K | $894K | $349K | — | — | $331K |
| 2021 | $968K | $887K | $352K | $24K | — | $356K |
| 2020 | $963K | $1M | $477K | $37K | — | $275K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $116K from 8 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$645K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Earl Choldin (director); Anne-Marie Kallal (executive director); Kanawal Lalli (director); Peter Leveille (president); Anthony McLellan (director); Omoyemi Timson (treasurer); Matthew Truzansky (secretary); Nazrina Umarji (director); Kalie Van Ree (director); Peter Wang (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cultural Connections Institute - The Learning Exchange’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890218803RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.