Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools Education Foundation
Public foundation · Grande Prairie, Alberta · BN 896151461RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($506,430) as filed with the CRA.
Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools Education Foundation is a public foundation based in Grande Prairie, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $588K in revenue and $506K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $112K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The foundation awarded bursaries and scholarships to catholic grade school students and provided funding to schools to purchase various religious material.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $588K | $506K | $474K | $16K | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $553K | $487K | $440K | $30K | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $480K | $424K | $395K | $14K | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $463K | $387K | $362K | $4,800 | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $555K | $410K | $397K | $4,856 | — | $998K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $112K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$130K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Witschen (chair); Doug Bain (vice chair); Steve Good (vice chair); Kari Prichard (executive director); Jodi Winnicky (director); Russ Snoble (trustee representative); Greg Miller (director); Krista Hurta (director); Nicole Macmullin (secretary treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools Education Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896151461RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.