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HIGHLANDS EARLY LEARNING CENTRE

Charitable organizationTeaching institutions·3255 EDGEMONT BLVD · NORTH VANCOUVER, BC · V7R 2P1·BN 107481020RR0001·website ↗

Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-03-31

This charity filed the simplified return, so some figures can't be computed. Fewer numbers, never invented ones.

What it does — in its own words

Ongoing programs

Highlands is a not-for-profit Childcare Program for children ages 24 months to 5 years. We offer a variety of classes for toddlers and preschool-aged children. We have provided quality affordable preschool and childcare programs to the community for 54 years and are run by a volunteer board of directors along with professional staff. The gaming grant helps to subsidize our salaries rent and utilities for our centre. We currently have 13 Early Childhood Educators who provide age appropriate play-based activities for the 105 families that we serve in the community. Programs are offered Mo Show more

Highlands is a not-for-profit Childcare Program for children ages 24 months to 5 years. We offer a variety of classes for toddlers and preschool-aged children. We have provided quality affordable preschool and childcare programs to the community for 54 years and are run by a volunteer board of directors along with professional staff. The gaming grant helps to subsidize our salaries rent and utilities for our centre. We currently have 13 Early Childhood Educators who provide age appropriate play-based activities for the 105 families that we serve in the community. Programs are offered Monday to Friday from 8-3:30 with preschool classes being offered in both the mornings and afternoons. We provide a play-based program designed to facilitate child development in the following areas: Language Physical Social Emotional and Intellectual development. Part of our mandate is also to provide community wide events for families in North Vancouver. Each year we offer at least one parenting workshop for families free of charge which is funded by other community grants. We continue to develop programs we can offer to fit the community's needs we have migrated to a group daycare license effective September 1 2018 in order to provide as many quality childcare spaces as possible as space time and funding permit.

Program descriptions from its F2024 T3010 filing, verbatim · self-reported · this is also the text our semantic search matches against. source ↗

Tier 1 — what we computed (open data)

From the charity's own F2024 T3010 filing. Self-reported; not independently verified. You can recompute every figure.

Cents to cause

T1 · computed (open data)

Not computable from this filing.

Sector median: 89¢ across 55,155 computed charities.

T3010 line 5000 ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Operating overhead

T1 · computed (open data)

Management, administration, and fundraising as a share of total spending. We treat 5–35% as the typical range; we state the figure, you judge.

T3010 line (5010 + 5020) ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Reserves

T1 · computed (open data)

Years current reserves could cover program spending.

Sector quartiles: 0.4 yr / 0.8 yr / 7.5 yr (p25 / median / p90).

T3010 line (4100 + 4140) ÷ 5000 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Total revenue

T1 · computed (open data)

$852K

Last-reported total revenue.

T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Donor-funded

T1 · computed (open data)

0%

Share of revenue from receipted donations.

T3010 line 4500 ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Government-funded

T1 · computed (open data)

75%

Share of revenue from federal, provincial, and municipal sources.

T3010 line 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Over the years

Every figure as filed at each fiscal period end, 20192024.

Period endRevenueCents to causeOverheadReserves
2019-06-30$567K
2020-06-30$549K
2021-06-30$600K
2022-03-31$562K
2023-03-31$793K
2024-03-31$852K
trend

From its T3010 filings (CRA annual releases) · self-reported, not audited by us · when a period is restated in a later release, the newest figures are shown · = cents-to-cause outside the valid 0–100% range (filing error; not used in rankings). source ↗

★ Tier 2 — Charity Intelligence (analyst-reviewed)

Not rated by Charity Intelligence. Their analysts cover 618 of Canada's 83,761 charities; absence of a rating says nothing about this charity. Our computed figures above stand on their own.

Board of directors

26 directors reported · 26 of 26at arm's length

  • Rinfret, AinslieChairarm's length
  • Mah, KevinCo-Chairarm's length
  • Wong, ChristinaSecretaryarm's length
  • Allegretto, EvanTreasurerarm's length
  • Nash, TenayaCo-Fundraiserarm's length
  • Arvai, KellyCo-Fundraiserarm's length
  • Chu, SusanMarketingarm's length
  • Barker, JannaStaff Liaisonarm's length
  • Mordy, CandiceContractsarm's length
  • Vondette, KateGeneral Directorarm's length
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  • Macario, TarynCo-Chairarm's length
  • Suleman, KarimGeneral Directorarm's length
  • Muirhead, GillianLegal / Contractsarm's length
  • Francis, DanielaExecutive Directorarm's length
  • Isley, HollySecretaryarm's length
  • Kerr, SunandaCo-Fundraiserarm's length
  • Field-Bennett, VirginiaCo-Fundraiserarm's length
  • Dosanjh, SarahCommunications & Marketingarm's length
  • Tsuchiya, TeeganInternal Communicationsarm's length
  • Janiga, TaraTeacher Liaisonarm's length
  • Chau, KatrinaGeneral Directorarm's length
  • Gustavson, MikeGeneral Directorarm's length
  • McLaren, MarciGeneral Directorarm's length
  • Macario, TarynChairarm's length
  • Lee, IanSecretaryarm's length
  • Beaty, BrittaCo-Fundraiserarm's length

From its F2024T3010 filing (public CRA record), as filed. “Arm's length” means not related to other officials by family or business ties. source ↗

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