Northern Lights College Foundation
Charitable organization · Dawson Creek, British Columbia · BN 119059996RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($788,977) as filed with the CRA.
Northern Lights College Foundation is a charitable organization based in Dawson Creek, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $789K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 67% from donations. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $225K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
To assist in community projects and promotion of higher education and grant monies to nothern lights college or any other college which is a 'qualified donee'for the purpose of providing scholarships and bursaries to students from the peace liard and stikine regions of bc or as otherwise defined by the donor
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $789K | $672K | — | — | $3.1M |
| 2023 | $697K | $678K | $670K | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $920K | $711K | $694K | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $1.2M | $1.2M | — | — | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $884K | $872K | $846K | — | — | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $225K from 9 charities:
- Vancouver Foundation$197K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,511
- United Way British Columbia$3,181
- Credit Union Foundation of British Columbia$1,000
- The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundation$1,000
- Fort ST. John Hospital Auxiliary$500
- The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundation$250
- The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundation$250
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lou Surerus (vice chair); Tony Zabinsky (chair); Shawna-Marie Phillips (director); Lisa Ward (director); Kayla Macdonald (director); Todd Bondaroff (director); Chante Patterson-Elden (director); Aaron Powell (director); Jody Schmidt (director); Dustin Stirling (director); Kristen Ghostkeeper (ex-officio nlc board rep); Katelyn Vandersteen (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northern Lights College Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119059996RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.