Strathcona County Library Board
Publicly funded institution · Sherwood Park, Alberta · BN 118877760RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($11,212,850) as filed with the CRA.
Strathcona County Library Board is a charitable organization based in Sherwood Park, Alberta, classified by the CRA under public amenities. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $12.4M in revenue and $11.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $12K.
Compared with 54 public-amenity institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 82% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 42 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $450 in 2024, the largest being $150 to The Loyal Edmonton Regiment Museum Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Strathcona County Library (SCL) encourages literacy and lifelong learning fosters community connections and offers programs and services that inform engage and entertain. SCL has over 290 000 items available for lending including books magazines newspapers music and movies - in both physical and digital formats. SCL provides library services at the central location in Sherwood Park through its Bookmobile's 14 regular weekly stops in rural Strathcona as well as through outreach services to schools day cares and seniors lodges. Services SCL provides: 1) reading related programs and se…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12.4M | $11.2M | $10.3M | $37K | $450 | $14.8M |
| 2023 | $12.2M | $11.1M | $9.9M | $34K | $33K | $13.7M |
| 2022 | $11.1M | $10.3M | $9.5M | $56K | $60K | $12.5M |
| 2021 | $10.9M | $10.2M | $9.4M | $64K | $100 | $11.7M |
| 2020 | $10.9M | $10.3M | $9.6M | $84K | — | $11M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $450 to 4 qualified donees:
Received $12K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions42
- Total compensation, all staff$7.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Denise Charbonneau (board chair); Keely Cronin (trustee); Glen Lawrence (trustee (county councillor)); Donna Smith (trustee); Ross Wilson (secretary-treasurer); Paul Ryzuk (vice chair); Rebecca Gagnon (trustee); Marla Tonita (trustee); Amy Koskela (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Strathcona County Library Board’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118877760RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.