Calgary Play Community Child Development Centre
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 107848715RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,352,406) as filed with the CRA.
Calgary Play Community Child Development 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 59% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $30K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (10 positions in that band). The charity reported 21 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $814K in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Day care - the centre operations focus entirely on providing high quality child care for children.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.3M | $2,445 | — | $686K |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.2M | $1.1M | $1,472 | — | $569K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $983K | $3,439 | — | $385K |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $916K | $843K | $3,095 | — | $418K |
| 2020 | $814K | $878K | $812K | $2,146 | — | $267K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $30K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,99910 positions
- Permanent full-time positions21
- Total compensation, all staff$985K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Laura Ritchie (director); Matthew Grant (director); Erin Bedell (director); Courtney Connolly (director); Kiran Sharma (chair); Ana Lage (secretary); Omar Masood (director); Joelle Savard (director); Lindsay Bec (director); Claire Woodside (vice chair); Andrew Rogan (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Calgary Play Community Child Development Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107848715RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.