Lac La Biche Little Sprouts Child Care Society
Publicly funded institution · Lac la Biche, Alberta · BN 834234668RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($797,894) as filed with the CRA.
Lac La Biche Little Sprouts Child Care Society is a charitable organization based in Lac la Biche, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $861K in revenue and $798K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 52% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $4,320.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
We provide childcare services to children and families of Lac La Biche County. We have steadily increased the number of children we care for throughout the fiscal year as we still continue to recover from the effects of the covid 19 pandemic.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $861K | $798K | $674K | $2,892 | — | $414K |
| 2023 | $792K | $735K | $595K | $3,827 | — | $351K |
| 2022 | $549K | $633K | $486K | $4,566 | — | $294K |
| 2021 | $505K | $445K | $151K | — | — | $378K |
| 2020 | $979K | $981K | $824K | — | — | $472K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4,320 from 1 charity:
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
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$660K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jocelyn Beniuk (chair); Amanda Cheyne (director); Jessica McDonald (director); Cassie Pryzbylski (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lac La Biche Little Sprouts Child Care Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 834234668RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.