Calgary Homeless Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 880846829RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($75,428,426) as filed with the CRA.
Calgary Homeless Foundation is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. 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 $66.9M in revenue and $75.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 21 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $390K.
Compared with 23 grantmaking institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 43 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 36 qualified donees totalling $61M in 2024, the largest being $12.3M to Calgary Alpha House Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness. Providing grants to qualified donees and other community organizations to assist individuals experiencing homelessness and those at risk of homelessness to obtain housing and support services required to maintain long-term housing stability.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $66.9M | $75.4M | $4.9M | $192K | $63.1M | $26.8M |
| 2023 | $68.3M | $58.5M | $4.3M | $176K | $52.9M | $30.8M |
| 2022 | $72.4M | $76.4M | $3.2M | $263K | $67.9M | $21M |
| 2021 | $93.6M | $82.9M | $7.7M | $236K | $73.8M | $24.9M |
| 2020 | $65.1M | $61M | $6.3M | $228K | $53.3M | $14.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $61M to 36 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Calgary Alpha House Society$12.3M
- Alexandra Community Health Centre$9.9M
- Trellis Society for Community Impact$6.6M
- CUPS Calgary Society$6.1M
- Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre Society$3.6M
- The Calgary John Howard Society$3.3M
- The S.h.a.r.p. Foundation (society Housing AIDS Restricted Persons)$1.8M
- McMan Youth Family & Community Services Association$1.7M
- Calgary Dream Centre$1.6M
- Closer to Home Community Services Society$1.6M
- Discovery House Family Violence Prevention Society$1.5M
- Enviros Wilderness School Association$1.4M
- The Mustard Seed Society$1.4M
- Distress Centre Calgary$1.4M
- Accessible Housing Society$1.1M
- Inn From the Cold Society$851K
- Miskanawah Community Services Association$811K
- The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary an Alberta Society$703K
- Wood's Homes Society$517K
- Fresh Start Recovery Centre$500K
- Siksika Health Services$365K
- The Salvation Army Community Services (Calgary)$346K
- Homespace Society$327K
- Aboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary$316K
- Centre for Newcomers Society of Calgary$280K
Received $390K from 21 charities:
- Vitality Fund$75K
- The Calgary Foundation$65K
- Canadahelps Canadon$42K
- Canadahelps Canadon$42K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$40K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$35K
- The Hearn Family Foundation$25K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$25K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$14K
- BenefAction Foundation$6,800
- The Hotchkiss Family Foundation$5,000
- Abundance Canada$3,750
- Sam Ousher Switzer Charitable Foundation$3,000
- Vancouver Foundation$2,700
- Lakeview United Church$2,000
- Canada Gives$1,000
- Viewpoint Foundation$1,000
- ST Paul's Anglican Church$750
- ATCO Electric Epic$520
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$80
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$73
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
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions43
- Total compensation, all staff$4.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John McCarthy (director); Carey Mogdan (chair); Matt Mura (board treasurer); David Ross (director); Patricia Jones (ex officio/president & ceo); Mike Ross (director); Kam Thind (director); Mike Theroux (director); Amber Spence (director); Daniele Gorla (director); Danelle Lepage (director); Jamie McLeod (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Calgary Homeless Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 880846829RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.