Nelson Christian School Society
Publicly funded institution · Nelson, British Columbia · BN 865883862RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,537,788) as filed with the CRA.
Nelson Christian School Society is a charitable organization based in Nelson, 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 $2.6M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $2,000.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 77% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $1,349 in 2024, the largest being $785 to The Terry Fox Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $2.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The nelson christian school society is registered with the bc ministry of education and follows bc curriculum guidelines. We offer two education programs our campus school nelson christian community school provides a classroom setting for junior kindergarten to grade 8 we also offer chek across bc a bc independent distributed learning program for schooling at home. Both schools partner with parents by providing students with a christ-centred biblically-integrated education which instills the vision and practice of excellence in academics moral character and service to others.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $2.5M | $2.4M | — | $1,349 | $534K |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.1M | $1.8M | — | $950 | $357K |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $2.2M | $1.8M | — | $1,324 | $313K |
| 2021 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $1.8M | — | $492 | $272K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.5M | — | $967 | $221K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1,349 to 2 qualified donees:
Received $2,000 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- $1–39,99912 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Nathanja Gingerich (director); Brenda Melanson (director); Mike McGillvrey (director); Lydia Neumann (director); Linda Schmidt (president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nelson Christian School Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 865883862RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.