Beautiful Plains Museum Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Neepawa, Manitoba · BN 106780711RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($28,128) as filed with the CRA.
Beautiful Plains Museum Inc. is a charitable organization based in Neepawa, Manitoba, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 September 30, 2024, it reported $49K in revenue and $28K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from government, 13% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $6,200.
Compared with 521 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 55% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $14K in 2020 to $49K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Operation of a community museum. Presentation of history of the neepawa & surrounding area.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $49K | $28K | $26K | — | — | $487K |
| 2023 | $45K | $60K | $58K | — | — | $427K |
| 2022 | $33K | $33K | $30K | — | — | $473K |
| 2021 | $43K | $36K | $35K | — | — | $426K |
| 2020 | $14K | $8,941 | $8,116 | — | — | $420K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $6,200 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$12K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Helen Drysdale (president/chairman); Louise Oman (director- secretary); Carol Bray (director); Patricia Martin (director); Lenard Pritchard (director); Brian Elgert (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Beautiful Plains Museum Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106780711RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.