Quinte Region Christian Schools
Publicly funded institution · Belleville, Ontario · BN 119108033RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,059,351) as filed with the CRA.
Quinte Region Christian Schools is a charitable organization based in Belleville, 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 July 31, 2024, it reported $8.5M in revenue and $8.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% from donations, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $401K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 67% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 40 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 11 qualified donees totalling $12K in 2024, the largest being $4,360 to Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.5M in 2020 to $8.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
We have established and operate multi-denominational Christian schools in Belleville Picton and Trenton Ontario. Our purpose is to advance education by operating Christian elementary and secondary schools in the Quinte region. Using Christ centered curriculum QRCS (Quinte Region Christian Schools) provides each student with a level of academic and religious learning that helps them to develop into well rounded individuals. QRCS also offers a preschool program .
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.5M | $8.1M | $7.5M | $95K | $12K | $5.7M |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.6M | $2.4M | $22K | $1,050 | $1.9M |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.4M | $2.2M | $17K | $31K | $1.9M |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $1.9M | $1.7M | $15K | $20K | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $2.3M | $2.2M | $1,180 | $27K | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $12K to 11 qualified donees:
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$4,360
- The Terry Fox Foundation$3,516
- World Vision Canada$920
- New Mercy Ministries$748
- Compassion Canada$664
- New Life Recovery Ministries$344
- Mission Aviation Fellowship of Canada$323
- Trenton Memorial Hospital Foundation$288
- Canadahelps Canadon$179
- Grace Inn Shelter$179
- Alzheimer Society of Hastings-Prince Edward$179
Received $401K from 14 charities:
- Christian Stewardship Services$110K
- Christian School Foundation (Canada) Inc.$106K
- Link Charity Canada Inc$103K
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- Canadahelps Canadon$26K
- The Maranatha Christian Reformed Church of Belleville Ontario$14K
- Fellowship Christian Reformed Church of Brighton$4,170
- Well Spring Fellowship Quinte$3,000
- Christian Stewardship Services$2,261
- Trenton Wesleyan Church$2,000
- Evangel Pentecostal Church$2,000
- Emmanuel Baptist Church Bloomfield$1,795
- Fellowship Christian Reformed Church of Brighton$975
- Westside Fellowship Christian Reformed Church of Kingston$174
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions40
- Total compensation, all staff$5.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Scott Walcott (vice chair); Anthony Jeronimus (chair); Patricia Couperus (secretary); Adrian DeGroot (treasurer); Aaron Brough (director); Eric DenOuden (director); Bryon Keene (director); Lisa Raby (director); Sylvia Smeenk (director); David Waller (director); Julia vanHuizen (director); Amy Woodland (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Quinte Region Christian Schools’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119108033RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.