Board of Governors of The Banff Centre
Charitable organization · Banff, Alberta · BN 119214955RR0001 · Arts · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($53,303,901) as filed with the CRA.
Board of Governors of The Banff Centre is a charitable organization based in Banff, Alberta, classified by the CRA under arts. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $54.8M in revenue and $53.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 33% from government. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
Compared with 39 arts charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 217 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $450K in 2024, the largest being $450K to The Banff Centre Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The Banff Centre operates under the authority of the Post-Secondary Learning Act (Statutes of Alberta 2003 Chapter P-19.5). The Centre provides the public with the opportunity to access a broad range of learning experiences.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $54.8M | $53.3M | $41M | $1.6M | $457K | $60.7M |
| 2023 | $47.5M | $47.9M | $40.5M | $1.6M | $400K | $58.4M |
| 2022 | $36.5M | $37.5M | $31.2M | $1M | $383K | $60.1M |
| 2021 | $34M | $35.9M | $29.1M | $975K | $975K | $60M |
| 2020 | $70.2M | $72.7M | $63.4M | $2.5M | $1.3M | $59.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $450K to 1 qualified donee:
- The Banff Centre Foundation$450K
Received $1.4M from 29 charities:
- Banff Canmore Community Foundation$555K
- David Spencer Endowment Encouragement Fund (2013)$200K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$186K
- Carthy Foundation$150K
- The Azrieli Foundation$65K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The Jarislowsky Foundation/la Fondation Jarislowsky$30K
- Future Generations Foundation$25K
- The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation$20K
- The Calgary Foundation$18K
- The Lecky Foundation$15K
- BenefAction Foundation$11K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- The John David and Signy Eaton Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$7,439
- The William and Nona Heaslip Foundation$5,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- The Myron and Catherine Tetreault Foundation$5,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$4,800
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$2,730
- United Way of Greater Toronto$2,000
- Qube Charitable Foundation$1,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$830
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $350,000 and over1 position
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9994 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions217
- Total compensation, all staff$29.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chris Lorway (president); Paul Baay (administrator).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Board of Governors of The Banff Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119214955RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.