Birdtail Country Museum Inc.
Publicly funded institution · Birtle, Manitoba · BN 120185533RR0001 · Public Amenities
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($79,692) as filed with the CRA.
Birdtail Country Museum Inc. is a charitable organization based in Birtle, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $68K in revenue and $80K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 68% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $5,000.
Compared with 521 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4,855 in 2020 to $68K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Museum is open to the public while updating cataloged artifacts to keep the collecton current on the website. Fundraising garden and farmers markets sale of crafts by volunteers live music artifact conservation project continuing again hiring a summer student to meet the public and explain the history of the area through the artifacts keeping the doors open all summer
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $68K | $80K | $77K | — | — | $73K |
| 2023 | $10K | $14K | $14K | — | — | $85K |
| 2022 | $27K | $25K | $25K | — | — | $76K |
| 2021 | $10K | $9,700 | — | — | — | $73K |
| 2020 | $4,855 | $8,036 | $8,036 | — | — | $73K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5,000 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$17K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Margaret Ashcroft (president); Brenda Evans (vice president); Elizabeth Corr (director); Rodney Smith (director); Raymond Smith (director); Douglas Sansom (director); Valerie Thomson (director); Lorraine Snow (director); May Wady (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Birdtail Country Museum Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 120185533RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.