Lakeland College
Publicly funded institution · Vermilion, Alberta · BN 119002731RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($69,640,410) as filed with the CRA.
Lakeland College is a charitable organization based in Vermilion, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $78.4M in revenue and $69.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 53% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $573K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $200,000–249,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 298 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 1 name.
In its own words
Lakeland college offers credit and non-credit educational programming in the areas of agricultural sciences apprenticeship and pre-employment trades business emergency services and public safety energy environmental sciences health and wellness human services interior design and university transfer. The college participates in applied research and innovation activities that are relevant to its programming areas complement teaching and learning and advance innovation-based rural community economic development. Lakeland collge provides scholarships bursaries and awards to students.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $78.4M | $69.6M | $63.6M | $625K | — | $182M |
| 2023 | $59.4M | $49.7M | $45.1M | $483K | — | $170.4M |
| 2022 | $68.7M | $62.7M | $56.7M | $611K | — | $156.3M |
| 2021 | $63.4M | $58.6M | $53.2M | $539K | — | $144.3M |
| 2020 | $66M | $66.7M | $60.4M | $509K | — | $136.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $573K from 17 charities:
- The Vermilion Fitness and Aquatic Centre Society$250K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$106K
- Canada Gives$60K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$26K
- Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation$20K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$20K
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$17K
- The Calgary Foundation$6,000
- Battle River Community Foundation$5,300
- Waterloo Region Community Foundation$3,197
- Northwestern Alberta Foundation$3,195
- The Ed Stelmach Community Foundation$2,750
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$1,500
- Morden Area Foundation Inc$1,200
- The Winnipeg Foundation$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$96
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions298
- Total compensation, all staff$40.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alice Wainwright-Stewart (president & ceo ongoing).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lakeland College’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119002731RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.