Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 118823459RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($35,914,731) as filed with the CRA.
Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre Society 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $36.5M in revenue and $35.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 70% from government, 11% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 48 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.7M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 423 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre provides access to a spectrum of care that supports adults at risk of homelessness to the most independent living possible - including various emergency shelter programs and services and affordable and supported housing.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $36.5M | $35.9M | $33.2M | $326K | $0 | $25M |
| 2023 | $27.4M | $30.7M | $28.6M | $194K | — | $24.4M |
| 2022 | $33.1M | $32.4M | $30.4M | $236K | — | $27.7M |
| 2021 | $41M | $38.1M | $36.6M | $198K | $0 | $27M |
| 2020 | $24.7M | $26.2M | $24.7M | $250K | — | $25.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4.7M from 48 charities:
- Calgary Homeless Foundation$3.6M
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$175K
- The Calgary Foundation$155K
- David and Penny Wilson Family Foundation$150K
- RBC Foundation$100K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$76K
- BenefAction Foundation$67K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$60K
- Canadahelps Canadon$51K
- Canadahelps Canadon$51K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$46K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$39K
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$27K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$25K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- The Lecky Foundation$15K
- Calgary Real Estate Board Charitable Foundation$15K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$10K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$10K
- The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund$8,500
- Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary$5,500
- Loran Scholars Foundation$5,000
- Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$4,050
- Canada Gives$3,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions423
- Total compensation, all staff$24.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118823459RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.