Stz'uminus Education Society
Publicly funded institution · Ladysmith, British Columbia · BN 140764168RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,292,715) as filed with the CRA.
Stz'uminus Education Society is a charitable organization based in Ladysmith, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $11.6M in revenue and $11.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 85% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $24.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 36% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 111 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $6.3M in 2022, the largest being $6.3M to Stz'uminus First Nation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1M in 2020 to $11.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Childcare Primary School (Kindergarten to Grade 4) Community School (Grades 5 through 12) Culture and Language (including literacy programs and post-secondary program for First Nation Language instructors) Lifelong Learning (including Chemainus Native College).
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $11.6M | $11.3M | $9.7M | — | — | $4.3M |
| 2023 | $10.8M | $10.5M | $9.1M | — | — | $4M |
| 2022 | $940K | $7.6M | $1.2M | — | $6.3M | $0 |
| 2021 | $657K | $1M | $992K | — | — | $6.6M |
| 2020 | $1M | $1.3M | $1.2M | — | — | $7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Granted $6.3M to 1 qualified donee:
- Stz'uminus First Nation$6.3M
Received $24 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions111
- Total compensation, all staff$7.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Donna Klockers (director); Harry Tennyson Cadwallader (director); Herbert Seymour (director); John Elliott (board chair); Greg Seymour (director); Denise Augustine (director); Charlotte Sampson Elliott (superintendent of learning).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Stz'uminus Education Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140764168RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.