Rocky Mountain Book Award: an Alberta Children's Choice Book Award Society
Charitable organization · Lethbridge, Alberta · BN 864396932RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2023-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,684) as filed with the CRA.
Rocky Mountain Book Award: an Alberta Children's Choice Book Award Society is a charitable organization based in Lethbridge, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2023, it reported $978 in revenue and $12K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 68% from other charities. In 2023, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $216.
Compared with 3,781 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $27K in 2020 to $978 in 2023. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The rocky mountain book award is a children's choice book award for alberta students in grades 4-7. Participating students must read at least five books from the 20 short listed and vote for their favourite. The program is designed to promote literacy in young people and the award promotes canadian authors publishers and illustrators.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2023
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $978 | $12K | $11K | — | — | $13K |
| 2022 | $987 | $8,783 | $8,140 | — | — | $22K |
| 2021 | $14K | $15K | — | — | — | $31K |
| 2020 | $27K | $12K | $8,156 | — | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2023
Received $216 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Patricia Wigelsworth (secretary); Laura Miller (treasurer); Michelle Dimnik (director); Jennifer Birke (selection committee director); Michelle Downing (social media director); Ruth McMahon (director).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rocky Mountain Book Award: an Alberta Children's Choice Book Award Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 864396932RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.