Niagara Christian Community of Schools
Publicly funded institution · Fort Erie, Ontario · BN 119057164RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($5,898,511) as filed with the CRA.
Niagara Christian Community of Schools is a charitable organization based in Fort Erie, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $6.1M in revenue and $5.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $8,923.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 53% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 45 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $315 in 2024, the largest being $315 to Heart Niagara Inc.. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $9.2M in 2020 to $6.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Niagara Christian Community of Schools is a private school registered with the Ontario Ministry of Education offering grades 6- 12. All courses follow Ministry of Education guidelines. The program is inspected semi-annually by the Ministry of Education and upon recommendations by the inspector graduates receive the OSSD (Ontario Secondary School Diploma) from the Ministry of Education. It is our goal that when students graduate they will be well-rounded individuals who will be successful academically socially physically and spiritually. The school serves day students in the Niagara Re…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.1M | $5.9M | $5.3M | $85K | — | $2.7M |
| 2023 | $5.6M | $7.1M | $6.4M | $85K | — | $2.5M |
| 2022 | $6.2M | $7.1M | $6.5M | $91K | — | $3.9M |
| 2021 | $8.5M | $7.9M | $7.3M | $87K | — | $4.8M |
| 2020 | $9.2M | $8.6M | $8M | $95K | $200 | $4.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $315 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $8,923 from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions45
- Total compensation, all staff$3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Donald McNiven (chair); Vivian Pengelly (director); William Daley (director); Ronald Rienas (director); Filomena Savoia (director); Brian Lofthouse (director); Heather Fretz (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Niagara Christian Community of Schools’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119057164RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.