Satnam Education Society of British Columbia
Publicly funded institution · Surrey, British Columbia · BN 107957805RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($26,098,102) as filed with the CRA.
Satnam Education Society of British Columbia is a charitable organization based in Surrey, 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 $29.2M in revenue and $26.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 69% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $94.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% 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 $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 361 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
The society runs schools in surrey and langley as well as a preschool/daycare in surrey abbotsford and aldergrove. The schools are run as independent schools as according to the b.c. Ministry of education. These schools and the childcare operation make up 95% of the charities activities. In addition to the required academic education the schools also teach the sikh religion. The charity also organized camps for the sikh youth in various cities in british columbia.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $29.2M | $26.1M | $23.7M | — | — | $51.4M |
| 2023 | $25M | $21.9M | $19.8M | — | — | $48.3M |
| 2022 | $20.8M | $19.2M | $18.8M | — | — | $45.2M |
| 2021 | $19.7M | $16.7M | $16.3M | — | — | $43.6M |
| 2020 | $20.5M | $16.5M | $14.5M | — | — | $40.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $94 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions361
- Total compensation, all staff$19M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Satnam Education Society of British Columbia’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107957805RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.