The Board of Trustees of Grande Prairie Roman Catholic Separate School Division
Publicly funded institution · Grande Prairie, Alberta · BN 107446817RR0002 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($76,404,713) as filed with the CRA.
The Board of Trustees of Grande Prairie Roman Catholic Separate School Division is a charitable organization based in Grande Prairie, 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 $75.3M in revenue and $76.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $200,000–249,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 607 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $4,564 in 2024, the largest being $4,564 to Grande Prairie and District Catholic Schools Education Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Provide quality Catholic Education to Grande Prairie and Area.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $75.3M | $76.4M | $74.5M | — | $4,564 | $27.5M |
| 2023 | $73.8M | $75.5M | $73.6M | — | $3,366 | $29.9M |
| 2022 | $71.7M | $70M | $68.2M | — | $4,484 | $31.5M |
| 2021 | $67.5M | $67.2M | $64.8M | $194K | $3,739 | $29.9M |
| 2020 | $65.8M | $63.9M | $61.5M | $186K | $5,582 | $29.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4,564 to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions607
- Total compensation, all staff$38.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michelle Boisvert (vice chair); Jessie Shirley (superintendent); John Croken (trustee); Jermiah English (trustee); Russell Snoble (board chair); Michelle Gemmell (trustee); Nicole MacMullin (secretary treasurer); Dwight Zenner (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Board of Trustees of Grande Prairie Roman Catholic Separate School Division’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107446817RR0002), or read how we compute the receipt.