Prairie Bible Institute
Publicly funded institution · Three Hills, Alberta · BN 107855116RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($10,838,265) as filed with the CRA.
Prairie Bible Institute is a charitable organization based in Three Hills, 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 $12.2M in revenue and $10.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations, 14% from other charities. In 2024, 33 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $470K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 70 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 34 qualified donees totalling $553K in 2024, the largest being $339K to Red Deer Polytechnic. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Prairie College is a Christian academic institution providing a vocationally focused biblically centered education for students at the college level.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12.2M | $10.8M | $9.7M | $851K | $553K | $13.7M |
| 2023 | $11.2M | $10.5M | $9.7M | $554K | $382K | $12.4M |
| 2022 | $9.1M | $9.4M | $8M | $339K | $440K | $11.7M |
| 2021 | $9.2M | $8.6M | $7.4M | $281K | $365K | $12M |
| 2020 | $8.9M | $8.9M | $7.4M | $292K | $560K | $11.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $553K to 34 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Red Deer Polytechnic$339K
- Frontier Camping Society$171K
- Mission Aviation Fellowship of Canada$14K
- The Cardus Institute$5,000
- TeachBeyond Inc.$4,000
- Lifeline Christian Mission Society - Canada$3,514
- The King's Fold Retreat and Renewal Society$2,455
- Kingswood University$1,600
- Christian Higher Education Canada Inc.$1,140
- Seniors Outreach Program Society$1,098
- Prairie Christian Academy Society$1,070
- Briercrest College and Seminary$1,036
- Canadian Centre for Christian Charities$995
- World Team$800
- Association of Christian Schools International - Western Canada$795
- The Evangelical Fellowship of Canada/alliance Évangélique du Canada$705
- Millar College of the Bible$700
- Canadian Collegiate Athletic Association$700
- Three Hills Health CARE Centre Auxiliary Society$680
- Compassion Canada$504
- Mount Olive Evangelical Free Church$475
- Concordia University of Edmonton$360
- Trans World Radio Canada$163
- Prairie Tabernacle Congregation$147
- Rock Solid Refuge Inc.$100
Received $470K from 33 charities:
- The Leder Charitable Foundation$100K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$78K
- The Jacobson Family Foundation$50K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$45K
- Koinonia Charitable Trust$40K
- D.H. Falle Family Foundation$40K
- The Daccord Family Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- The Evangelical Free Church of Canada$10K
- The John & Ellie Voortman Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Foundation Office.ca$10K
- Prairie Tabernacle Congregation$7,127
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,879
- Spray Lake Sawmills Foundation$6,660
- Donmar Foundation$5,000
- Allard Foundation LTD.$5,000
- Christian Stewardship Services$3,000
- Parkland Baptist Church$2,200
- Trinity Lutheran Church of Leader$2,000
- Chineses Coordination Centre of World Evangelism (canada)$2,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,583
- College Heights Baptist Church$1,250
- Sunwest Christian Fellowship$1,000
- Medical Ministry International$1,000
- The Evangelical Free Church of Lac la Biche$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions70
- Total compensation, all staff$3.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joshua Bogunjoko (chair); Ruth Borthistle (director); Brad Farquhar (treasurer); Mark Maxwell (president/ceo); Jeff Suderman (vice chair); Peter Wall (director); Dana Rekow (director); Kevin Price (director); Harold Cooper (director); Dave Bunney (director); Gloria Evans (director); Andrea Manning-Kroon (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Prairie Bible Institute’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107855116RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.