The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver)
Publicly funded institution · Vancouver, British Columbia · BN 107962359RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($753,362,617) as filed with the CRA.
The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver) 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 $756.7M in revenue and $753.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 52 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 733 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 position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 5,878 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The board of education of school district no. 39 (vancouver) is to enable students to reach their intellectual social aesthetic and physical potential in challenging and stimulating settings which reflect the worth of each individual and promote mutual respect cooperation and social responsibility. The majority of our funding is received through provincial government. We also receive donations for scholarships bursaries and other education-related purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $756.7M | $753.4M | $725.4M | — | — | $74.8M |
| 2023 | $691.4M | $699.7M | — | — | — | $71.5M |
| 2022 | $638.9M | $650.5M | — | — | — | $146.8M |
| 2021 | $650.6M | $639.5M | — | — | — | $158.4M |
| 2020 | $635.4M | $625.2M | — | — | — | -$8.9B |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.6M from 52 charities:
- Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society$505K
- Vancouver Foundation$263K
- Cause We Care Foundation$96K
- Click - Contributing to Lives of Inner City Kids Society$88K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$87K
- Jean IP Foundation$60K
- Moffat Foundation Inc.$50K
- The Art Starts in Schools Society$44K
- Aqueduct Foundation$40K
- McEwen Family Charitable Trust$31K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$25K
- Vancouver Rotary Club Foundation$25K
- Church Unlimited Christian Ministries$25K
- Stand Foundation$20K
- The Keg Spirit Foundation$20K
- Nicola Family Foundation$20K
- Universal Buddhist Temple$19K
- Indigo Love of Reading Foundation$17K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$11K
- Makeway Foundation$10K
- Riley Foundation$10K
- The Peter Young Foundation$10K
- Louis Family Foundation$10K
- Pena Family Foundation$10K
- Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation$7,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9993 positions
- $200,000–249,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5,878
- Total compensation, all staff$631.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Suzie Mah (trustee); Jennifer Reddy (trustee); Janet Fraser (trustee); Christopher Richardson (trustee); Sheung Pedley (trustee); Mia Liu (student trustee); Victoria Jung (trustee); Gurpreet Faridkot (trustee); Alfred Chien (trustee); Joshua Zhang (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Board of Education of School District No. 39 (Vancouver)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107962359RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.