Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 107995789RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($437,945,904) as filed with the CRA.
Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $473.8M in revenue and $437.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 39% from government. In 2024, 46 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $9.1M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $350,000 and over range. The charity reported 1,537 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
Post secondary education and training in technology applied arts and trades.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $473.8M | $437.9M | $344.4M | $2.6M | $0 | $359.6M |
| 2023 | $381.7M | $371.6M | $296.4M | $2.1M | — | $318.5M |
| 2022 | $348.6M | $343.9M | $278.5M | $1.5M | $0 | $337.6M |
| 2021 | $251.3M | $232.5M | $160.2M | $1M | — | $332M |
| 2020 | $345.6M | $355.6M | $288.7M | $1.8M | — | $309.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $9.1M from 46 charities:
- The Taylor Family Foundation$6M
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1M
- Arh Healthcare Foundation$375K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$250K
- Motive-Action Training Foundation$220K
- RBC Foundation$150K
- The Calgary Foundation$105K
- The Brawn Family Foundation.$105K
- The Prabhudas and Vijya Ruparell Family Foundation$105K
- Westman Charitable Foundation$100K
- Westman Charitable Foundation$100K
- The Calgary Foundation$86K
- Cpa Education Foundation$81K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$50K
- Calgary Learns Association$43K
- Educationmatters$42K
- Ptarmigan Charitable Foundation$40K
- Norris Family Foundation$35K
- The Calgary Foundation$34K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$31K
- S.M. Blair Family Foundation$25K
- Michael Benny Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- The DP Martin Family Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$9,000
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
- $250,000–299,9996 positions
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions1,537
- Total compensation, all staff$245.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Ross (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107995789RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.