Basically Babies LTD.
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 865288476RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($537,693) as filed with the CRA.
Basically Babies LTD. is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $513K in revenue and $538K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 69% from donations, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $294K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $321K in 2020 to $513K in 2024.
In its own words
The role of basically babies is o advance and protect the welfare of infants born into families in extreme need through the provision of a beautiful gift of a gender-specific cost-effective baby layette which contains a one year supply of baby clothing and accessories. This layette contains essential items for outfitting a baby such as snowsuits outfits sleepers undershirts socks shoes slippers mittens toques blankets bibs books and toys in appropriate colors and sizes for each baby. Each layette contains approximately 120 items all of which combine fo form a package that can suppl…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $513K | $538K | $492K | $37K | — | $478K |
| 2023 | $546K | $436K | $394K | $36K | — | $503K |
| 2022 | $318K | $302K | $296K | $0 | — | $392K |
| 2021 | $434K | $255K | $238K | $12K | — | $376K |
| 2020 | $321K | $299K | $272K | $22K | — | $196K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $294K from 24 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$93K
- Canadahelps Canadon$93K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$16K
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$10K
- Centra Cares Foundation$10K
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund$10K
- Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire$7,000
- Perpetual GRACCE Foundation Inc.$5,000
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$5,000
- The Calgary Foundation$4,500
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$4,500
- Vancouver Foundation$4,050
- BenefAction Foundation$2,500
- Beatrice Stevens Memorial Foundation Inc.$2,000
- Beulah Alliance Church of Edmonton$2,000
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$1,668
- Connect Church$1,000
- The Canadian Mission Board of the Church of God in Canada$1,000
- ShareLife Foundation$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$972
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$135
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$100
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$20
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$237K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Basically Babies LTD.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 865288476RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.