Battle River Community Foundation
Public foundation · Camrose, Alberta · BN 892118688RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,123,270) as filed with the CRA.
Battle River Community Foundation is a public foundation based in Camrose, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $6.3M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from donations. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $133K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 86 qualified donees totalling $541K in 2024, the largest being $107K to Battle River Community Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.9M in 2020 to $6.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Our top priority is growing legacy endowment funds to improve the quality of life and the strength of the communities in the Battle River area which is achieved by working with donors to meet their philanthropic objectives.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.3M | $1.1M | $409K | $27K | $541K | $28.1M |
| 2023 | $3.6M | $931K | $142K | $39K | $621K | $22.9M |
| 2022 | $480K | $1.1M | $161K | $31K | $811K | $20.2M |
| 2021 | $3.6M | $829K | $121K | $2,527 | $587K | $20.8M |
| 2020 | $2.9M | $942K | $63K | $1,673 | $599K | $18M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $541K to 86 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Battle River Community Foundation$107K
- The Battle River School Division$90K
- The Bethany Group (Camrose) Foundation$25K
- The Camrose Association for Community Living$24K
- Camrose County$24K
- Village of Forestburg$23K
- The City of Camrose Library Board$20K
- Camrose Neighbor Aid Center Inc.$12K
- Flagstaff's Informed Response Sharing Team Society$12K
- Camrose Performing Arts Centre Management Council$12K
- Flagstaff Food Bank$11K
- Killam & District Health CARE Foundation$10K
- Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation$10K
- Kidsport Canada - Alberta$9,275
- The Bailey Theatre Society$8,561
- City of Camrose$8,500
- Stettler Town and Country Museum$8,000
- Camrose and District Boys and Girls Club$6,500
- Camrose Women's Shelter Society$6,300
- Town of Killam$6,000
- Bethel Evangelical Lutheran Church$5,700
- Lakeland College$5,300
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$5,100
- Hardisty Agricultural Society$5,000
- Beaverhill Bird Observatory Society$5,000
Received $133K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$170K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kevin Gurr (chair); Stephen Kambeitz (vice chair); Neil Lunty (treasurer); Sharleen Chevraux (secretary); Ben Paulson (director); Carol Rollheiser (director); Wes Campbell (director); Henry Hays (director); Alex Oliver (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Battle River Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892118688RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.