Calgary Dream Centre
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 861400059RR0001 · Supportive Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,651,104) as filed with the CRA.
Calgary Dream Centre is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $9M in revenue and $9.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 46% from government. In 2024, 33 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.1M.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 52 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The calgary dream centre's programs provide recovery-oriented training vocational training and housing opportunities to those experiencing addiction and homelessness. At the calgary dream centre people are given the resources and opportunities to build a life worth living filled with hope and freedom.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9M | $9.7M | $7.7M | $809K | — | $11.5M |
| 2023 | $8.9M | $8.3M | $6.9M | $402K | — | $11.5M |
| 2022 | $8.5M | $7.8M | $6.4M | $343K | — | $10.8M |
| 2021 | $8M | $6.6M | $5.5M | $229K | — | $10.1M |
| 2020 | $7.3M | $6.7M | $5.5M | $287K | — | $8.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.1M from 33 charities:
- Calgary Homeless Foundation$1.6M
- The Calgary Foundation$56K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$54K
- BenefAction Foundation$52K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$33K
- Clearwater Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Hearn Family Foundation$25K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$24K
- The Highbury Foundation$13K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$10K
- Allard Foundation LTD.$10K
- The Peters-Spencer Families Foundation$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,832
- Experience Church Calgary$5,000
- Canada Gives$5,000
- Pentecostal Tabernacle of Calgary$4,800
- Abundance Canada$3,950
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,529
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,420
- The Providence Benevolent Foundation$2,800
- ATCO Electric Epic$1,937
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,786
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$1,250
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
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions52
- Total compensation, all staff$5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Nash (chairman); Steve Balinsky (secretary); Werner Haag (treasurer); Ben Johnson (director); Cal Johnson (director); Craig Hill (ceo); David Taylor (director); Susan Samuel.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Calgary Dream Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 861400059RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.