Alberta Council of Women's Shelters
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 118780634RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,163,033) as filed with the CRA.
Alberta Council of Women's Shelters is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, 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 $3.3M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 62% from government, 12% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $319K.
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 23% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Frontline training and education to shelter and community organisations. One of our training programs trains shelter workers on providing support and safety to children who have been exposed to domestic violence. We coordinate the collection of data from shelters across alberta to initiate conduct and participate in research relating to the causes impacts prevention and elimination of violence against women children and seniors. Research includes the development and analysis of surveys distributed to key populations for example the alberta men's attitudes about violence against women sur…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $3.2M | $2.6M | $196K | — | $2.9M |
| 2023 | $2.4M | $2.2M | — | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $2.3M | $2M | — | — | — | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $2.6M | $2M | — | — | — | $2.2M |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $2.1M | $1.9M | $58K | — | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $319K from 17 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$132K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$100K
- The Calgary Foundation$20K
- Definity Insurance Foundation$15K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$13K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,199
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$5,156
- Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue$5,000
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$2,500
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$1,197
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$750
- Connect Charter School Society$540
- United Way of Calgary and Area$399
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$366
- Matheson Tenants Association$200
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
- $80,000–119,9999 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)
Gaye Warthe (president); Jessica Chapman (vice president); Ma Debbie (treasurer); Michele Taylor (director); Ceci Cardinal (director); Jerri Taylor (director); Jeannette Sandstra (secretary); Sandy Alison Vander Ziel (director); Suleka Mustapha (director); Janice Willier (director); Linda McLean (director); Rebecca Wells (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Alberta Council of Women's Shelters’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118780634RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.