Northern Lights Educational Services
Publicly funded institution · Kanata, Ontario · BN 856419577RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($188,679) as filed with the CRA.
Northern Lights Educational Services is a charitable organization based in Kanata, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $787K in revenue and $189K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 74% from donations.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $300K in 2020 to $787K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The organization provides educational services through the operation of a community cultural center weekend school summer school summer camp tutoring services and Turkish language education programs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $787K | $189K | $247K | — | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $334K | $105K | $182K | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2022 | $297K | $251K | $248K | — | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $297K | $262K | — | — | — | $978K |
| 2020 | $300K | $218K | $206K | — | — | $978K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$189K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ali Atlamaz; Neslihan Cabuk (board member); Mehmet Akif Saka (board member); Nijat Mammadov (treasurer); Kubra Altindag (board member); Ishak Burak Ture (board member); Kadriye Gencer (board member); Yusuf Gokhan Dundar (chair); Gulsah Avsar (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northern Lights Educational Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 856419577RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.