Buffalo Parents Sponsoring Society
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 898840616RR0001 · Educational Organizations Not Elsewhere Categorized · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($82,588) as filed with the CRA.
Buffalo Parents Sponsoring Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under educational organizations not elsewhere categorized. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $27K in revenue and $83K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 25% from other charities.
Compared with 3,624 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 3% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 87% of that peer group.
In its own words
To promote the efficiency of the canadian forces for the benefit of the public by supporting air cadet training to youth in order to improve their knowledge of aviation through the provision of educational programs resources and to help them become better citizens by providing them with educational programs and resources such as leadership and communication skills flying training music training technical training awards and scholarships and volunteer opportunities in the community. To exercise all powers as are necessarily ancillary to the fulfillment of the purposes of the air cadet le…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $27K | $83K | $1,906 | $9,841 | — | $106K |
| 2023 | $19K | $83K | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | $11K | $38K | $38K | — | — | — |
| 2021 | $71K | $27K | $3,826 | — | — | — |
| 2020 | $19K | $44K | $44K | — | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Buffalo Parents Sponsoring Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898840616RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.