Burman University
Publicly funded institution · Lacombe, Alberta · BN 106867609RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($18,903,580) as filed with the CRA.
Burman University is a charitable organization based in Lacombe, 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $19.6M in revenue and $18.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 19% from government, 28% from other charities. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $7.3M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 97 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 25 names.
In its own words
Operation of a liberal arts university and highschool
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $19.6M | $18.9M | $16.9M | $375K | $3,503 | $22.6M |
| 2023 | $17.4M | $18.2M | $16.1M | $400K | $6,999 | $21.8M |
| 2022 | $16.7M | $16.2M | $15M | $106K | $19K | $22.5M |
| 2021 | $18.1M | $21.2M | $14.4M | $64K | $5.3M | $21.9M |
| 2020 | $20.4M | $19.8M | $17.8M | $339K | $34K | $25M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $7.3M from 21 charities:
- Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Canada$5.9M
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$1.1M
- Canadahelps Canadon$121K
- Canadahelps Canadon$121K
- Alberta Conservation Association$36K
- A Better World Helping Hands Canada$28K
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$13K
- Vancouver Foundation$5,000
- Ontario Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$2,000
- Medicine Hat Seventh-day Adventist Church$2,000
- Community Foundation of Central Alberta$2,000
- Seventh Day Adventist Church (british Columbia Conference)$1,618
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$1,000
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$783
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$715
- The Manitoba-Saskatchewan Conference of the Seventh-day Adventist Church$500
- Seventh Day Adventist Church (british Columbia Conference)$500
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$500
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$500
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$500
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$73
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions97
- Total compensation, all staff$11.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Loren Agrey (secretary); Betty Bayer (ex-officio); Kevin Boonstra (trustee); Kenneth Corkum (ex-officio); Victor Dingman (trustee); Manfield Edwards (ex-officio); Gerald Grant (trustee); Garry Hodder (ex-officio); Kevin McKay (trustee); Mary Lou Toop (trustee); Paul Musafili (ex-officio); Adam Delbert (ex-officio); David Miller (ex-officio); Darla Bell (trustee); Ngoy Kyala (ex-officio); Elvin Saruk (trustee); Chrstine Castagne (trustee); Marcia Whittaker (trustee); Louicius Michel (elected - faculty); Lisa Clarke (trustee); Sheldon James (trustee); Ryan Acosta (ex-officio - student); Charles Ed II Aguilar (ex-officio); Paul Llwellyn (ex-officio - chair); Brad Thorp (ex-officio).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Burman University’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106867609RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.