Portage College
Publicly funded institution · Lac la Biche, Alberta · BN 885586792RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($40,279,000) as filed with the CRA.
Portage College is a charitable organization based in Lac la Biche, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $53.9M in revenue and $40.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 49% from government. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $13K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 213 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $1,600 in 2024, the largest being $1,000 to Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $35.8M in 2020 to $53.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Portage college ('the college') operates under the authority of the post secondary learning act chapter p-19.5 statutes of alberta 2003. The college is a registered charity and under section 149 of the income tax act is exempt from payment of income taxes. The college primarily serves communities in north eastern alberta with its main campus in lac la biche and with community campuses throughout its service region. The college provides instruction and training to assist adult learners through academics for careers and education career entry training in business human services health s…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $53.9M | $40.3M | $25.2M | $2.5M | $1,600 | $39.8M |
| 2023 | $37.9M | $35.4M | $22.4M | $2M | $0 | $25.8M |
| 2022 | $35.9M | $33.1M | $21.1M | $134K | $700 | $22.9M |
| 2021 | $33.3M | $31.9M | — | — | $280 | $21.3M |
| 2020 | $35.8M | $33.6M | — | — | $2,500 | $19.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1,600 to 2 qualified donees:
Received $13K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions213
- Total compensation, all staff$25.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Randolph Benson (board chair); Mara-Jean Fyte (public member); Patricia Makokis (public member); Brian Rudyk (public member); Linda Sallstrom (public member); Donna Webster (public member); Ron Young (public member); John Irwin (public member); Kevin Pare (public member); Heather Lett (staff association member); Elisa Brosseau (public member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Portage College’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 885586792RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.