Urban Academy
Publicly funded institution · New Westminster, British Columbia · BN 866921612RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($9,016,549) as filed with the CRA.
Urban Academy is a charitable organization based in New Westminster, 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 $9.5M in revenue and $9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from government. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $63K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 55 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5M in 2020 to $9.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Urban academy operates an independant kindergarten to grade 12 school. Urban academy also operates a junior kindergarten program (ages 4 & 5) and a before and after school program for its students.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.5M | $9M | $7.1M | $37K | — | $3.1M |
| 2023 | $8.2M | $7.9M | $6.2M | $75K | — | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $7.2M | $6.5M | $5.4M | $53K | — | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $6M | $5.6M | $4.6M | $29K | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $5M | $4.8M | $4M | $11K | — | $1.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $63K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions55
- Total compensation, all staff$6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karim Merali (member at large); Joanne Ward (secretary); Kimberly Grant (member at large); Richard Carson (member at large); Steve Chen (vice chair); Michael Slinger (head of school); Kate Begent Connors (chair); Harwinder Parmar (member at large); Hafeez Merani (member at large); Tajinder Ghataurah (member at large); Iain Evans (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Urban Academy’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 866921612RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.