Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation
Public foundation · Cochrane, Alberta · BN 836853754RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($515,125) as filed with the CRA.
Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation is a public foundation based in Cochrane, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $486K in revenue and $515K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 55% from donations, 17% from government, 8% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $36K.
Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 92% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $281K in 2020 to $486K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The foundation offers golf cart tours to groups/individuals and has an education program for schools where the hsitory and ecology of the park are taught. The foundation has also helped build important trails and infrastructure in the cochrane area. The foundation achieves its programs by receiving donations for projects and programs and help from volunteers
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $486K | $515K | — | $2,029 | — | $8.8M |
| 2023 | $8M | $443K | — | $6,595 | — | $8.8M |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $322K | — | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $311K | $314K | — | — | — | $295K |
| 2020 | $281K | $282K | — | — | — | $294K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $36K from 9 charities:
- Olympia Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Calgary Foundation$10K
- Alberta Conservation Association$6,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,292
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,194
- The Cochrane and District Community Foundation$1,595
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,500
- Trans Canada trail / Sentier transcanadien$1,250
- BenefAction Foundation$250
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$379K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Georg Paffrath (chair); Tim Harvie (director); Cam Crawford (vice chair); Andy Crooks (director); Myrna Dube-Thompson (director); Doug Marter (director); Braden Norman (director); Kim Kadatz (director); Susan Church (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836853754RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.