Brighter Futures Family Resource Society
Publicly funded institution · Drayton Valley, Alberta · BN 896686581RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($343,896) as filed with the CRA.
Brighter Futures Family Resource Society is a charitable organization based in Drayton Valley, 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 $372K in revenue and $344K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 84% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget.
Compared with 1,147 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 15% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Four locations for stay play and grow children's programming; second step empathy building program; baby essentials; board memberships with community parenting coalition alberta capc/cpnp coalition health communities coalition; prenatal nutrition program; after school program; wiggles and giggles baby group; partnership with aim for success children's summer camp. We had 26 volunteers who contributed 293.5 hours of service.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $372K | $344K | $230K | — | — | $0 |
| 2023 | $338K | $354K | $242K | — | — | $0 |
| 2022 | $352K | $344K | $109K | — | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $384K | $386K | $278K | — | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $437K | $454K | $343K | — | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received -$1,099 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$224K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Sinclair (executive director); Brenda Petrie (chairperson); Anita Berger (vice chairperson); Leah Sanderson (past chairperson); Kathy Warren (director); David Martin (director); Tracy Gramlich (director); Johanna Shaw (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Brighter Futures Family Resource Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896686581RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.