Rocky Mountain College: a Centre for Biblical Studies
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 132455411RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,206,135) as filed with the CRA.
Rocky Mountain College: a Centre for Biblical Studies is a charitable organization based in Calgary, 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 $6M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $85K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 38% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Rocky mountain college offers post-secondary education with one year certificates in christian discipleship; two year diplomas in leadership and global studies; three year degrees in religious studies and four year degrees in leadership global studies and theology.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6M | $1.2M | $1M | — | — | $5.2M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.6M | $1.3M | — | — | $437K |
| 2022 | $981K | $1.6M | $819K | $164K | — | $868K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $883K | $177K | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.5M | $762K | $152K | — | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $85K from 13 charities:
- Centre Street Church$38K
- Crossroads Evangelical Missionary Church Fellowship$18K
- Bonavista Evangelical Missionary Church Fellowship$6,000
- Zion Emc Fellowship Didsbury$5,500
- McDougal Chapel Evangelical Missionary Church Fellowship$5,499
- Abundance Canada$3,750
- Evangelical Missionary Church of Canada$3,140
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,315
- Castor Evangelical Missionary Fellowship$1,000
- Faith Community Church Fellowship$1,000
- Wilmot Centre Missionary Church$700
- Little Plume Evangelical Missionary Church$500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$258
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
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$488K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Murray Swalm (director); John Cressman (director); Kerry Belt (rmc president); John Stokoe (director); Barb Henning (director); Aaron Bon-Bernard (director); Torry Sawatzky (director); Lillian Whitemore (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rocky Mountain College: a Centre for Biblical Studies’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132455411RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.