Skip to main content

YOUNG ALBERTA BOOK SOCIETY

Charitable organizationSupport of schools and education·11759 GROAT RD NW · 2ND FLR PERCY PAGE CENTRE · EDMONTON, AB · T5M 3K6·BN 105774632RR0001·website ↗

Last reported: F2024 filing · period ending 2024-03-31

What it does — in its own words

Ongoing programs

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 Show more

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 other programs). 7) Seeds of Stories: Bursaries to cover artist fees for visits to Albertan schools and libraries through the Taleblazers or Year Round Bookings programs.

New programs

8) FLY!: Fun Lit in YEG: free literary artist visits to children/youth groups around Edmonton. 9) Onwords & Upwords: Literary artist tour to rural Alberta schools and libraries.

Program descriptions from its F2024 T3010 filing, verbatim · self-reported · this is also the text our semantic search matches against. source ↗

Tier 1 — what we computed (open data)

From the charity's own F2024 T3010 filing. Self-reported; not independently verified. You can recompute every figure.

Cents to cause

T1 · computed (open data)

92¢

Per its F2024 T3010, 92¢ of each dollar spent went to programs.

Sector median: 89¢ across 55,155 computed charities.

T3010 line 5000 ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Operating overhead

T1 · computed (open data)

8%

Management, administration, and fundraising as a share of total spending. We treat 5–35% as the typical range; we state the figure, you judge.

T3010 line (5010 + 5020) ÷ 4950 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Reserves

T1 · computed (open data)

0.9 yr

Years current reserves could cover program spending.

Sector quartiles: 0.4 yr / 0.8 yr / 7.5 yr (p25 / median / p90).

T3010 line (4100 + 4140) ÷ 5000 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Total revenue

T1 · computed (open data)

$313K

Last-reported total revenue.

T3010 line 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Donor-funded

T1 · computed (open data)

0%

Share of revenue from receipted donations.

T3010 line 4500 ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Government-funded

T1 · computed (open data)

22%

Share of revenue from federal, provincial, and municipal sources.

T3010 line 4570 (or 4540+4550+4560) ÷ 4700 · Self-reported on the T3010; not independently verified. source ↗

Over the years

Every figure as filed at each fiscal period end, 20192024.

Period endRevenueCents to causeOverheadReserves
2019-03-31$309K89¢11%0.9 yr
2020-03-31$323K91¢9%1.2 yr
2021-03-31$375K90¢10%1.7 yr
2022-03-31$216K90¢10%1.6 yr
2023-03-31$209K90¢10%1.9 yr
2024-03-31$313K92¢8%0.9 yr
trend

From its T3010 filings (CRA annual releases) · self-reported, not audited by us · when a period is restated in a later release, the newest figures are shown · = cents-to-cause outside the valid 0–100% range (filing error; not used in rankings). source ↗

★ Tier 2 — Charity Intelligence (analyst-reviewed)

Not rated by Charity Intelligence. Their analysts cover 618 of Canada's 83,761 charities; absence of a rating says nothing about this charity. Our computed figures above stand on their own.

Board of directors

11 directors reported · 11 of 11at arm's length

  • Oster, Katherine (Kathy)Treasurerarm's length
  • McDougall, LindaDirectorarm's length
  • Little, Catherine AChairarm's length
  • Greenwood, WinDirectorarm's length
  • Jessup, Kathleen (Kathy)Secretaryarm's length
  • Corr, ShaulaDirectorarm's length
  • Feutl, RitaVice Chairarm's length
  • Poulsen, DavidDirectorarm's length
  • Herder, CarolDirectorarm's length
  • Thapa, ManitaDirectorarm's length
  • Yatsyuk, NataliaDirectorarm's length

From its F2024T3010 filing (public CRA record), as filed. “Arm's length” means not related to other officials by family or business ties. source ↗

Right of reply

This charity hasn't added a response yet. When it does, it appears here, beside the numbers, and is never removed. Represent this charity? Submit a response.

Verify everything: full public record on CharityData.ca ↗ · CRA charities listing ↗