Lambton Christian School Society
Publicly funded institution · Sarnia, Ontario · BN 129904264RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,973,690) as filed with the CRA.
Lambton Christian School Society is a charitable organization based in Sarnia, 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 July 31, 2024, it reported $2.2M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 49% from donations, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $255K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 75% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 89% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $941 in 2024, the largest being $600 to Christian School Foundation (Canada) Inc.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Our charity runs a day school from JK to grade 8 where every subject is taught with a Christian perspective. It maintains and promotes Christian education in Sarnia and the surrounding community.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.2M | $2M | $1.9M | $11K | $941 | $4.6M |
| 2023 | $2M | $2M | $1.8M | $24K | $21K | $4.3M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.5M | $2,673 | $55K | $4.2M |
| 2021 | $2M | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1,114 | $6,392 | $4.2M |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.3M | $1.3M | $12K | $1,276 | $3.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $941 to 2 qualified donees:
Received $255K from 11 charities:
- Vision '74 Inc$144K
- Sarnia Community Foundation$50K
- Living Hope Christian Reformed Church of Sarnia$17K
- Christian School Foundation (Canada) Inc.$15K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,997
- Redeemer Christian Reformed Church of Sarnia$3,444
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2,701
- Christian Stewardship Services$2,422
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$325
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
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$1.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Keith Little (director); Alvin Lau (treasurer); Jim Olsen (director); Lindsay VanReenen (director); Francis Freer (director); David Stevenson (chair); Judy Kapteyn (director); Jessie Tolton (director); Brian vanOosten (vice-chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lambton Christian School Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129904264RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.