Bragg Creek Trails Association
Publicly funded institution · Bragg Creek, Alberta · BN 855308839RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($700,776) as filed with the CRA.
Bragg Creek Trails Association is a charitable organization based in Bragg Creek, Alberta, 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 $843K in revenue and $701K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 58% from government, 12% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $190K.
Compared with 686 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Community recreation facilities trails etc.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $843K | $701K | $539K | $45K | — | $893K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1M | $957K | — | — | $750K |
| 2022 | $834K | $583K | $529K | — | — | $666K |
| 2021 | $327K | $541K | $492K | — | — | $415K |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $814K | $785K | — | — | $629K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $190K from 12 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$49K
- Canadahelps Canadon$49K
- BenefAction Foundation$32K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$19K
- The Calgary Foundation$19K
- The Hotchkiss Family Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$6,000
- The Bellini Foundation$5,000
- Abundance Canada$650
- United Way of Calgary and Area$284
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$140
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$58
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$357K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Conrad Schiebel (director/president); Karena Brawley (director); Ken Young (treasurer); Brad Small (director); Wendy Jill Hartzell (director); Cindy McGough (director); Michele White (director/secretary); Eric Lloyd (director); James Mackie (director); Neil Maclaine (director); David Owen (director); Alf Skrastins (director/vice president); Ursula Wohlfarth (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bragg Creek Trails Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 855308839RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.