Boys and Girls Clubs of the Foothills
Publicly funded institution · Black Diamond, Alberta · BN 897365045RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,317,568) as filed with the CRA.
Boys and Girls Clubs of the Foothills is a charitable organization based in Black Diamond, Alberta, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. 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 $3M in revenue and $3.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 67% from government, 7% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $702K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 89% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 66 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
We provide licensed preschool for ages 3-4 years. Licensed and accredited before and after school programs for ages 5 through 12 years with full day programming on p.d. Days. Teen programs in the evenings ages 13-17. We also run full day summer camp for july and august. This program is also licensed by the government of alberta.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3M | $3.3M | $3.2M | $11K | — | $214K |
| 2023 | $3M | $3.1M | $3M | $243 | — | $488K |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $2.7M | $2.6M | $3,041 | — | $567K |
| 2021 | $3.3M | $2.4M | $2.3M | $9,137 | — | $678K |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $2.7M | $2.7M | $1,432 | — | -$220K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $702K from 12 charities:
- Boys' and Girls' Club of Lethbridge and District$470K
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Canada/Les repaires jeunesse du Canada$184K
- Jays CARE Foundation$16K
- Canadian Women's Foundation$14K
- The Calgary Foundation$5,700
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$4,727
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$3,484
- Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta$1,420
- Canadian Women's Foundation$1,000
- Boys and Girls Clubs of Alberta$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$30
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$10
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions66
- Total compensation, all staff$2.6M
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 Boys and Girls Clubs of the Foothills’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 897365045RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.