Action Dignity Society
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 897859609RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,378,389) as filed with the CRA.
Action Dignity Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 29% from government, 57% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.8M.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $2.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
LEAD (Leadership Engagement Action & Development) for Change 2: promotes racial equity & inclusion in public systems & policies & address systemic inequitiesin public institutions government & service eco-systems to enhance full economic social and civic participationof racialized people. Collaboration and Commitment towards Racial Equity (CORE): The project aims to support strengthen and sustain communities to build the necessary civic infrastructure to confront and dismantle racism in Calgary. Youth PLACE 2: ActionDignity seeks to combine the BLACK program with its Youth P.L.A.C.E 2 (…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $1.6M | — | $172K | $708K |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.8M | $1.8M | — | — | $553K |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $2.5M | $1.9M | — | — | $573K |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $2M | $1.5M | — | — | $496K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.1M | — | — | $304K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.8M from 11 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$1.1M
- United Way of Calgary and Area$400K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$100K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$50K
- Lionheart Foundation$38K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$26K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$25K
- The Lecky Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$17K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$214
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
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Arsaima Sultan (chair); Ashley Sayson (secretary); Ernestine Bissou (treasurer); Ram Sankaran (director); Turin Chowdhury (director); Margaret Yu (vice chair); Tanvir Alam (director); Nellie Alcaraz (director); Wendy Yuen (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Action Dignity Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 897859609RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.