Fort Ostell Museum Society
Publicly funded institution · Ponoka, Alberta · BN 107395329RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($42,722) as filed with the CRA.
Fort Ostell Museum Society is a charitable organization based in Ponoka, 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 $43K in revenue and $43K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 98% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 521 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 5% of peers.
In its own words
School tours research suitcase tours summer youth programs specialty teas community courses
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $43K | $43K | $1,638 | — | — | $182 |
| 2023 | $47K | $47K | $685 | — | — | -$1,232 |
| 2022 | $47K | $43K | $718 | — | — | $3,628 |
| 2021 | $43K | $39K | $558 | — | — | $3,200 |
| 2020 | $43K | $36K | $719 | — | — | $7,395 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$36K
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fort Ostell Museum Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107395329RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.