Calgary Counselling Centre
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 108091950RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,910,564) as filed with the CRA.
Calgary Counselling Centre is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $10.8M in revenue and $10.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 54% from government, 15% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 91% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 97 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $400K to The Family Centre of Northern Alberta (association). Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $7.2M in 2020 to $10.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
1) Individual couples family and group counselling services to children youth and adults in distress. 2) Provide preventative counselling services for a wide range of personal needs. 3) We educate university students in counselling to develop their practice skills. 4) We provide post graduate training - formal instruction and practice in counselling in preparation for entering an occupation in the field of mental health social work psychology marriage and family therapy or pastoral psychology. 5) Conduct research aimed at understanding the social problems that put people at risk.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.8M | $10.9M | $7.7M | $197 | $1.6M | $572K |
| 2023 | $9.9M | $10M | $7.4M | $1,939 | $1.1M | $652K |
| 2022 | $7.4M | $7.7M | $6.4M | $3,975 | — | $741K |
| 2021 | $7.7M | $7.2M | $6M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $7.2M | $6.7M | $5.6M | $468 | — | $621K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.6M to 7 qualified donees:
Received $1.2M from 27 charities:
- United Way of Calgary and Area$636K
- Hunter Family Foundation$100K
- RBC Foundation$75K
- The Calgary Foundation$50K
- The Auxilium Foundation$50K
- Wayne Foo Foundation$40K
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$30K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$25K
- Clearwater Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Werklund Foundation$17K
- Aqueduct Foundation$15K
- Lily Street Foundation$10K
- Lily Street Foundation$10K
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$10K
- Allard Foundation LTD.$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,273
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$6,000
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$5,000
- Ross-Lynn Charitable Foundation$4,000
- Carthy Foundation$3,000
- Canada Gives$2,000
- BenefAction Foundation$2,000
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
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions97
- Total compensation, all staff$6.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Catherine Pryce (director); Deanna Werklund (director); Dawn Tinling (director); Wayne Foo (director); Adam Legge (director); Matthew Hutchens (director); Hugoline Morton (director); John Lang-Hodge (director); Curtis Gratton (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Calgary Counselling Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108091950RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.