Almadina School Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 899625073RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($15,673,440) as filed with the CRA.
Almadina School Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $16.3M in revenue and $15.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2020, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $30.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 78% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (7 positions in that band). The charity reported 112 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Almadina school society operates as almadina language charter academy a k-9 alberta public school for students from homes in which english is a second or third language. The school focus is english language acquistion to ensure that our students reach their full potential. Almadina follows the alberta education curriculum using a language across the curriculum approach. All certified teachers at almadina are language acquisition facilitators as well as subject and grade level specialist
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $16.3M | $15.7M | $14.9M | — | — | $4.2M |
| 2023 | $14M | $14.5M | $13.7M | $10K | — | $3.6M |
| 2022 | $13.4M | $13M | $12.4M | $10K | — | $4M |
| 2021 | $12.7M | $12.7M | $12.1M | $10K | — | $3.6M |
| 2020 | $11.6M | $11M | $10.4M | $10K | — | $3.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2020
Received $30 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions112
- Total compensation, all staff$10.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Riad Abeid (director); Ali Al Aych (director); Khalil Desouki (director); Hassan Elkadri (director); Shahid Malik (director); Mohammad Moshiuzzan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Almadina School Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 899625073RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.