Salem Acres Bible Camp Association
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119132793RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($581,933) as filed with the CRA.
Salem Acres Bible Camp Association is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $487K in revenue and $582K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations, 12% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $129K.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 7% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 4 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $262K in 2020 to $487K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Bible camp for kids (ages 7-18) 7 5-day summer camps that teach kids about god and loving people; leadership programs for kids (ages 15-18). Retreat centre for groups we enlist volunteers to help with kid activity programming mentoring of staff food services and upkeep of our facilities our employees work year round to organize and promote camps fundraise for camp and serve retreat groups that come to our property
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $487K | $582K | $196K | $4,424 | — | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $385K | $496K | $236K | $2,933 | — | $2.6M |
| 2022 | $352K | $475K | $230K | $1,388 | — | $2.7M |
| 2021 | $324K | $275K | $154K | $1,290 | — | $2.9M |
| 2020 | $262K | $248K | $128K | $703 | — | $2.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $129K from 9 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions4
- Total compensation, all staff$245K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Peter Andrusiak (chair); Eldon Siemens (director); Bukky Ogunfowora (secretary); Katie Neilsen (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Salem Acres Bible Camp Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119132793RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.