Alcove Addiction Recovery for Women Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 870667813RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,500,793) as filed with the CRA.
Alcove Addiction Recovery for Women Society 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $156K.
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 43% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $838K in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Recovery program: Provides highly structured addiction recovery services in a residential setting including individual and group counselling. Family Program: For women who don't want to be separated from their children we provide a separate facility with self-contained apartments. In addition to addiction recovery services we provide parenting support and child development workshops. Online counselling support based on client centered goals.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $9,581 | — | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.3M | $1.1M | $11K | — | $2.5M |
| 2022 | $1.2M | $1.2M | $1M | $868 | — | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $911K | $832K | $784 | — | $2M |
| 2020 | $838K | $756K | $544K | $3,275 | $0 | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $156K from 11 charities:
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$45K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$25K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$25K
- Aqueduct Foundation$15K
- Chinook Foundation$12K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,679
- The Calgary Foundation$2,611
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1,610
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$188
- Faith Food Bank Society—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$959K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brian Beck (chair); Catherine Spackman (director); Carly Duerr (vice chair); Jeaninne Zanewich (treasurer); Doug Mills (secretary); Carolynn Black (director); Evan Strong (director); Sydney Black (director); Nancy Remington (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Alcove Addiction Recovery for Women Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 870667813RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.