Sylvan Meadows Adventist School
Publicly funded institution · Red Deer County, Alberta · BN 870025574RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($341,610) as filed with the CRA.
Sylvan Meadows Adventist School is a charitable organization based in Red Deer County, 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 $379K in revenue and $342K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 39% from government, 44% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $48K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $245K in 2020 to $379K in 2024.
In its own words
Operate a private school designed to educate students from kindergarten to grade 9
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $379K | $342K | $337K | $3,931 | — | $128K |
| 2023 | $313K | $292K | $284K | $7,296 | — | $90K |
| 2022 | $304K | $256K | $25K | $3,228 | — | $69K |
| 2021 | $265K | $246K | $242K | $2,909 | — | $21K |
| 2020 | $245K | $258K | $254K | $3,934 | — | $1,830 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $48K from 2 charities:
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$47K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$339
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$268K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sylvan Meadows Adventist School’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870025574RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.