Sage Hill Writing Experience Inc
Publicly funded institution · Saskatoon, Saskatchewan · BN 130354327RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-09-30. Split of total expenditures ($223,801) as filed with the CRA.
Sage Hill Writing Experience Inc is a charitable organization based in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, 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 September 30, 2024, it reported $214K in revenue and $224K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 56% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $1,000.
Compared with 1,540 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 $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Sage Hill Writing provides high quality educational opportunities to the public for the advancement of creative writing at all skill levels (novice to professional). Sage Hill's program principles are: affordable tuition scholarship support public readings for faculty & participants and respectable faculty fees. Sage Hill's ongoing programs are two adult retreats (spring poetry or fiction colloquium & several summer workshops in various genres) and five teen writing workshops as well as faculty and participant reading events.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $214K | $224K | $203K | $609 | — | $16K |
| 2023 | $211K | $215K | $192K | $1,638 | $0 | $27K |
| 2022 | $170K | $173K | $155K | $580 | — | $31K |
| 2021 | $159K | $151K | $133K | $575 | — | $34K |
| 2020 | $167K | $151K | $133K | $544 | — | $27K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1,000 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$116K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Amanda Sampson (director vp 11/22 pres 11/23); Credence McFadzean (director; vice-president 11/23); Coby Stephenson (director); Leanne Griffin (director); Brander Leone (director secretary 11/24).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sage Hill Writing Experience Inc’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130354327RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.