Vanguard College
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 107785628RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-04-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,310,226) as filed with the CRA.
Vanguard College is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, 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 April 30, 2024, it reported $3.3M in revenue and $3.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 39 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $485K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 22 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $33K in 2024, the largest being $32K to The Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada/les Assemblees de la Pentecote du Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The college is a theological college that prepares its students for Christian vocational and lay leadership. In addition to certificates diplomas and degrees in theological studies the college provides an environment for character development ministry development and leadership development through apprenticeship experience service opportunities and specific skill training. The college strives to provide students with personalized programs and program diversity. Local national and international communities are recipients of outreach programs provided to our students to train them in the…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $3.3M | $2.6M | $83K | $33K | $9.4M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $3.2M | $2.5M | $76K | $39K | $9.2M |
| 2022 | $3.1M | $3.2M | $2.4M | $43K | $43K | $2.2M |
| 2021 | $3.4M | $3.2M | $2.4M | $77K | $43K | $2.1M |
| 2020 | $3.9M | $3.8M | $3M | $83K | $41K | $1.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $33K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $485K from 39 charities:
- Alberta & NWT District of the Pentecostal Assemblies of Canada$138K
- SMMART Foundation$58K
- Hope City Church (edmonton)$53K
- Evangel Pentecostal Assembly$41K
- North Pointe Community Church$25K
- The Park Pentecostal Church of Sherwood Park$22K
- Deo Gratias Foundation$20K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$16K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- Gospel Centre Pentecostal Church (edmonton)$14K
- Lacombe Pentecostal Church$12K
- Southside Pentecostal Assembly of Edmonton$9,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,306
- Chauvin Gospel Centre (pentecostal)$5,108
- City Lights Church of Camrose$5,000
- Cold Lake Community Church Affiliated With P.a.o.c.$4,750
- Northwest Pentecostal Assembly (edmonton)$4,400
- Wainwright Pentecostal Assembly$3,842
- Pentecostal Tabernacle of Calgary$3,600
- West Edmonton Christian Assembly$3,063
- Glad Tidings Pentecostal Assembly$2,982
- Devon Community Church$2,500
- Valley Worship Assembly of Drayton Valley$2,400
- Hay River Pentecostal Chapel$2,389
- Rose Church Winnipeg Inc.$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions22
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rev. Gary Taitinger (chairman (ex-officio)); Rev. Cory Randell (vice-chairman (ex-officio)); Rev. David Wells (gen superintendent(ex-officio)); Rev. Mark MacKnight (president (ex-officio)).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Vanguard College’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107785628RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.