The Prairie Journal Trust
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119251726RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-30. Split of total expenditures ($17,834) as filed with the CRA.
The Prairie Journal Trust is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. 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 July 30, 2024, it reported $16K in revenue and $18K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 60% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 673 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 61% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Attachment to c2 programs the charity carried out during the fiscal year to accomplish its charitable purposes. Purpose of the charity: the prairie journal trust is established for the advancement of the mind (education for its own sake so that the mind can be trained with provision for public dissemination of knowledge gained; to disseminate such knowledge by the publication and distribution of an academic journal namely the prairie journal of canadian literature containing poetry fiction drama and review articles and to fund the publication of said journal. Activities of the charity dur…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $16K | $18K | $17K | — | — | $8,879 |
| 2023 | $14K | $16K | $16K | — | — | $11K |
| 2022 | $18K | $15K | $14K | — | — | $13K |
| 2021 | $15K | $14K | $13K | — | — | $9,376 |
| 2020 | $17K | $13K | $13K | — | — | $8,847 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Anne Burke (trus/dir/lo); Ronald Koesling (trus/dir/lo); Penn Kemp (trus/dir/lo).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Prairie Journal Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119251726RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.