Calgary Alpha House Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 118823111RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($24,985,308) as filed with the CRA.
Calgary Alpha House Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $25.5M in revenue and $25M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 40% from government, 51% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $12.9M.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 315 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Calgary alpha house society provides safe and caring environments for individuals whose lives are affected by alcohol and other drug dependencies. Our continuum of programs helps connect these individuals with multiple levels of support such as outreach programs a shelter program a detox program and a housing program with case management support. Calgary alpha house society purchased an apartment building for our women's project in june 2017. It provides 24 new permanent supportive housing units for women who have health and aging related issues due to addiction mental illness and a lon…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $25.5M | $25M | $22.3M | $81K | — | $6.2M |
| 2023 | $26.1M | $25.9M | $23.1M | $83K | — | $5.7M |
| 2022 | $27.5M | $27.1M | $24.6M | $52K | — | $5.6M |
| 2021 | $28.1M | $27.3M | $25.6M | $32K | — | $5M |
| 2020 | $17.2M | $16.8M | $15.4M | $34K | — | $4.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $12.9M from 26 charities:
- Calgary Homeless Foundation$12.3M
- The Calgary Foundation$224K
- Canadahelps Canadon$95K
- Canadahelps Canadon$95K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$19K
- Trico Charitable Foundation$15K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$13K
- BenefAction Foundation$12K
- Aqueduct Foundation$6,500
- The Ian and Rochelle Laing Family Foundation Inc.$5,000
- Carthy Foundation$3,000
- Value Partners Charitable Foundation Inc.$2,500
- Mind on Development$2,000
- Brentview Baptist Church$1,963
- Homeless Cars$1,825
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,622
- The Evangelical Covenant Church of Calgary$1,500
- Canada Gives$1,500
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- Cathedral Church of the Redeemer$1,262
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$623
- Grace Presbyterian Church of Calgary Alberta$500
- The Wagemakers Foundation$500
- The Rocky View School Division$300
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
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions315
- Total compensation, all staff$16.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karen Pirie (vice chair); Kim Heesung (director); Nicole Sherren (chair); Ryan Ayliffe (director); Rita Dahlke (director); Stephen Pariser (treasurer); Rick Giammarino (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Calgary Alpha House Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118823111RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.