Calgary Legal Guidance Society
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 118823715RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,395,606) as filed with the CRA.
Calgary Legal Guidance Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.2M in revenue and $4.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 20% from government. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $80K.
Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 35 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
The calgary legal guidance society (clg) provides legal assistance to low income clients through free community clinics that provide legal advice on topics such as criminal civil landlord/tenant employment family elder & immigration law. Our legal services team in our family law homeless outreach immigration law elder law social benefits advocacy & sahwoo mohkaak tsima taas (blackfoot: before being judged) programs provides representation to modest income clients who would not otherwise be able to afford legal representation. The family law program provides servcies for survivors of…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.2M | $4.4M | — | — | — | $362K |
| 2023 | $4.1M | $4.2M | $3.6M | $60K | — | $519K |
| 2022 | $3.6M | $3.7M | $3.1M | — | — | $601K |
| 2021 | $3.8M | $4M | $3.3M | — | — | $708K |
| 2020 | $3.8M | $3.8M | $3.2M | — | — | $878K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $80K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions35
- Total compensation, all staff$3.2M
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 Legal Guidance Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118823715RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.