The Board of Trustees of Sturgeon School Division No 24
Publicly funded institution · Morinville, Alberta · BN 886441195RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($85,236,370) as filed with the CRA.
The Board of Trustees of Sturgeon School Division No 24 is a charitable organization based in Morinville, 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 $81.7M in revenue and $85.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% 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 87% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 616 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 12 qualified donees totalling $6,751 in 2024, the largest being $1,552 to Canadian Cancer Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Operation and enhancements of early childhood to grade 12 education in sturgeon county: city of st. Albert town of redwater town of gibbins town of bon accord town of legal hamlet of riviere qui barre and town of morinville.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $81.7M | $85.2M | $82.3M | $140K | $13K | $93.8M |
| 2023 | $78.3M | $80.8M | $77.8M | — | $4,057 | $18M |
| 2022 | $76.7M | $73.4M | $70.2M | — | $3,878 | $25M |
| 2021 | $73.7M | $64.2M | $60.9M | — | $2,881 | $21.7M |
| 2020 | $68.7M | $68.2M | $64.9M | — | $185K | $12.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $6,751 to 12 qualified donees:
- Canadian Cancer Society$1,552
- The Camp Tanamakoon Charitable Foundation Inc.$1,200
- Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation$1,139
- Canadian Veterans Services Society$725
- Water First Education and Training Inc.$590
- Second Chance Animal Rescue Society$407
- Canadahelps Canadon$358
- Special Olympics Alberta Association$322
- The Jessica Martel Memorial Foundation$253
- Redwater Fellowship of Churches Foodbank$130
- Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada$75
- The Terry Fox Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9997 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions616
- Total compensation, all staff$62.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joseph Dwyer (trustee); Janine Pequin (trustee); Cindy Briggs (vice board chair); Trish Murray-Elliot (trustee); Stacey Buga (vice board chair); Tasha Oatway-McLay (board chair); Irene Gibbons (trustee); Shawna Warren (superintendent); Sean Nicholson (associate superintendent (...)).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Board of Trustees of Sturgeon School Division No 24’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 886441195RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.