The Chinese Academy Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 887333631RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($803,834) as filed with the CRA.
The Chinese Academy Foundation is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $804K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 26% from government. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $3,029.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 1% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
To teach mandarin and cantonese languages to kindergarten to grade 9 students; to teach credit mandarin course to grade 10 to grade 12 students.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $804K | $12K | $3,244 | — | $3.9M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $659K | $3,374 | $9,862 | $500 | $3.3M |
| 2022 | $950K | $618K | — | — | $515 | $3.3M |
| 2021 | $1.3M | $563K | — | — | $904 | $3M |
| 2020 | $1M | $807K | — | — | — | $2.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3,029 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$601K
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 Chinese Academy Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887333631RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.