Northgate Christian Education Society
Publicly funded institution · Comox, British Columbia · BN 863186607RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,360,846) as filed with the CRA.
Northgate Christian Education Society is a charitable organization based in Comox, 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 $3.9M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 60% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1,079.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 85% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 25 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $1,504 in 2024, the largest being $889 to Water for South Sudan. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.2M in 2020 to $3.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Operation of an independent k-12 christian school
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.9M | $3.4M | $3.3M | — | $1,504 | $2.7M |
| 2023 | $2.9M | $2.5M | $2.5M | — | $1,661 | $2.2M |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $2.1M | $2.1M | — | $1,190 | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $2.1M | $2.1M | — | $5,759 | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $1.7M | — | — | $1,270 | $1.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1,504 to 3 qualified donees:
- Water for South Sudan$889
- Youth for Christ Comox Valley$515
- Comox Valley Presbyterian Church$100
Received $1,079 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions25
- Total compensation, all staff$2.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Evan Allnutt (chairman); Nick Lavertu (director); Abel O'Brennan (director); Jan Alexander (director); Joy Tansky (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northgate Christian Education Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863186607RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.