The Board of Education of School District No. 43 (Coquitlam)
Publicly funded institution · Coquitlam, British Columbia · BN 129819868RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($477,323,388) as filed with the CRA.
The Board of Education of School District No. 43 (Coquitlam) is a charitable organization based in Coquitlam, British Columbia, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. 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 $498.5M in revenue and $477.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 86% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $212K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 30% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 3,000 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
The school district provides public education to k to 12 students in the coquitlam bc catchment area. The ongoing charitable program (awarding scholarships to students acquisition of educational material and equipment) facilitates this service.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $498.5M | $477.3M | $396.6M | — | — | $261.4M |
| 2023 | $446.5M | $436.8M | $462K | — | — | $240.2M |
| 2022 | $405.9M | $400.3M | $312K | — | — | $237.2M |
| 2021 | $405.8M | $407.1M | $470K | — | $563K | $231.5M |
| 2020 | $416.9M | $387.2M | — | — | — | $254.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $212K from 20 charities:
- Vancouver Sun Children's Fund Society$48K
- SD43 Education Foundation$39K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$23K
- The Art Starts in Schools Society$19K
- Loyal Protestant Association$15K
- The Howard Foundation$15K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$7,500
- The Western Communities Foundation$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$4,000
- Music Heals Charitable Foundation$4,000
- Decoda Literacy Foundation$2,018
- Vancity Community Foundation$1,500
- Metro Vancouver Regional Parks Foundation$1,000
- The Hamber Foundation$1,000
- 754 Phoenix Squadron Sponsoring Committee$500
- Beedie Foundation$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$487
- Canadahelps Canadon$366
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$184
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
- $250,000–299,9992 positions
- $200,000–249,9996 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3,000
- Total compensation, all staff$403M
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 The Board of Education of School District No. 43 (Coquitlam)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129819868RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.