Mother Earth's Children's Charter School Society
Publicly funded institution · Warburg, Alberta · BN 859902462RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,742,759) as filed with the CRA.
Mother Earth's Children's Charter School Society is a charitable organization based in Warburg, 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 23% from donations, 68% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $301K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
To wholistically nuture guide and challenge each childs spiritual intellectual physical and emotional self through traditional indgenous teachings.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.7M | $1.6M | — | — | $17K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $1.5M | — | — | $26K |
| 2022 | $1.5M | $1.6M | $1.6M | — | — | $343K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.5M | $1.5M | — | — | $450K |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $1.8M | $1.6M | — | $150K | $529K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $301K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dale Friedel (board chair); Emil Durocher (trustee); Cindy Paul (trustee); Melanie Ure (trustee); Jon Hutt (vice chair); Anita Lemoigan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mother Earth's Children's Charter School Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 859902462RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.