Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 847902277RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,040,697) as filed with the CRA.
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $5.7M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 80% from government, 6% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 96% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 35 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.6M in 2020 to $5.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Calgary homeless foundation national association of friendship centres family and community support services aar program alberta health services united way construction of elder lodge for indigenous elders to provide affordable housing to vulnerable indigenous seniors in calgary.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.7M | $5M | $5M | — | — | $1.9M |
| 2023 | $4.8M | $4.7M | $4.7M | — | — | $408K |
| 2022 | $7.4M | $7M | $7M | $0 | $0 | $358K |
| 2021 | $4.6M | $4.5M | $4.5M | $0 | $0 | $101K |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $2.8M | $2.8M | $0 | $0 | -$23K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.1M from 15 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$491K
- Calgary Homeless Foundation$316K
- Calgary Health Foundation$110K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$95K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$78K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- Carthy Foundation$3,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,654
- West Island College Society of Alberta$1,940
- Unitarian Church of Calgary$1,243
- Kantorei Choral Society$1,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$120
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$0
- Faith Food Bank Society—
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
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions35
- Total compensation, all staff$2.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kirk Poitras (president); Candace (coby) Royal (board member); Cornstock Edmee (board member); Crystal Blain (member bod); Sarah Sinclair (secretary); Carla Garcia (treasurer); Amber Lessard (board member); Peter McPhereson (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 847902277RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.