Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School
Publicly funded institution · Foothills, Alberta · BN 108040627RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($28,665,361) as filed with the CRA.
Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School is a charitable organization based in Foothills, 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $30.3M in revenue and $28.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 16% from government. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $649K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 98% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 143 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Operation of an independent co-educational day school for students in kindergarten to grade 12.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $30.3M | $28.7M | $28.7M | — | — | $4.8M |
| 2023 | $27.2M | $26.5M | $26.5M | — | $12K | $3.3M |
| 2022 | $24.9M | $23.7M | $20.3M | — | $28K | $2.4M |
| 2021 | $22.9M | $22.1M | $18.6M | $177K | $9,563 | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $21.7M | $21.7M | $18.1M | $186K | $10K | $237K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $649K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9998 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions143
- Total compensation, all staff$16.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Judy Fairburn (director); Carol Grant-Watt (director/head of school); Karen Robinson (vice-president alumni ass); Dana Lougheed (director); Barbara Macintyre (director); Todd Worsley (past chair); Jill Angevine (director); Amy Meyer (director); Mike Rose (chair); Nathu Jamila (president volunteer assn); John Mercury (director); Houston Peschl (director); Graham Richardson (director); Kam Sandhar (director); Sheila Van Horne (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Strathcona-Tweedsmuir School’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108040627RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.