Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 895504165RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($23,852,297) as filed with the CRA.
Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $24.7M in revenue and $23.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $581K.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 95% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 307 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
See attached listing of all ongoing programs for the 2024 fiscal year.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $24.7M | $23.9M | $23.9M | — | — | $5.3M |
| 2023 | $24.9M | $24.1M | $24.1M | — | — | $4.4M |
| 2022 | $24.1M | $23.4M | $23.4M | — | — | $3.7M |
| 2021 | $22.8M | $21.8M | $21.8M | — | — | $3M |
| 2020 | $21.5M | $21.2M | $21.2M | — | — | $2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $581K from 16 charities:
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$162K
- Canadahelps Canadon$108K
- Canadahelps Canadon$108K
- The Annual Foundation$80K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation$25K
- Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation$20K
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$20K
- Rio Terrace Moravian Church$3,136
- ATCO Electric Epic$2,046
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,224
- Westwood Unitarian Society$792
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$629
- Carthy Foundation$450
- Holy Spirit Lutheran Church$418
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions307
- Total compensation, all staff$15.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Leah Anaka (board member); Don Padget (president); Bev Laboucane (treasurer); Johanne Johnson (board member); Pam Greene (board member); Anna Sinclair (board member); Vicente Gonzalez-Moret (board member); Javed Sommers (board member); Roger Epp (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bent Arrow Traditional Healing Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 895504165RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.