SJS Saint John's School Society
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 136378148RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($18,685,311) as filed with the CRA.
SJS Saint John's School Society is a charitable organization based in Vancouver, 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 $19.8M in revenue and $18.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 11% from government. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $63K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 39% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 111 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The society operates an indenpendent school called 'st.john's school'. The school provides co-educational non-demoninational independent instruction for students from junior kindergaten to grade 12 according to the requirements of the ministry of education of british columbia.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $19.8M | $18.7M | $16.1M | — | — | $18.4M |
| 2023 | $18.1M | $17.3M | $14.8M | — | — | $17M |
| 2022 | $17.1M | $15.1M | $12.5M | — | — | $16.1M |
| 2021 | $16.5M | $14.8M | $12M | — | — | $14.2M |
| 2020 | $15.7M | $15M | $12.2M | — | — | $12.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $63K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $160,000–199,9995 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions111
- Total compensation, all staff$13M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Grant Christoff (chair); Marian Jakovic-Attanasio (director); Gloria Leong-Sit (vice-chair); Bobby James Ning (director); Natasha Prodan-Bhalla (director); Allan Russell (director); Michael Wu (director); Laura Kristine Jeffery (director); Richard Barry Pearce (director); Erika Reilly (director); Bryan Vincent Yu (treasurer); Tiana Ma (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from SJS Saint John's School Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 136378148RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.