Young Alberta Book Society
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 105774632RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($315,908) as filed with the CRA.
Young Alberta Book Society is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $313K in revenue and $316K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 22% from government, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $25K.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 70% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
1) Taleblazers: a travel-subsidized month-long provincial literary festival for young people held in-person and online in schools & libraries. 2) Story Avenue: writing workshops for inner city Gr. 5 & 6 students. 3) Allard Win-a-Literary-Artist contest: sponsored in-school visits. 4) Martyn Godfrey Award: juried writing contest for Gr. 4-9 students. 5) Wordpower: Sponsored week-long tours of literary artists through dozens of schools in rural Alberta. 6) Year-round bookings: Facilitation of non-subsidized literary artist visits to schools and libraries throughout the school year (outside of ot…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $313K | $316K | $292K | — | — | $207K |
| 2023 | $209K | $246K | $223K | $176 | — | $210K |
| 2022 | $216K | $242K | $219K | $1,826 | $0 | $248K |
| 2021 | $375K | $238K | $215K | — | — | $274K |
| 2020 | $323K | $319K | $291K | — | $821 | $137K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $25K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$129K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Katherine (Kathy) Oster (treasurer); Linda McDougall (director); Catherine Little (chair); Win Greenwood (director); Carol Herder (director); Natalia Yatsyuk (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Young Alberta Book Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 105774632RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.