Calgary Seniors' Resource Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 886737352RR0001 · Relief of the Aged · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,783,519) as filed with the CRA.
Calgary Seniors' Resource Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under relief of the aged. 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $2.9M in revenue and $2.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 85% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $650K.
Compared with 29 seniors' institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 4% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 42 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $65K in 2024, the largest being $65K to CUPS Calgary Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Calgary seniors' resource society is governed by a board of directors and carries out its objectives with a staff of 30 along with a large compliment of volunteers. Our social work programs are provided by registered social workers and include outreach services - long term case management and assistance with financial housing and daily living challenges; and seniorconnect - semi urgent care offered 7 days a week with same day of next day response assessing needs stabilizing crisis and connecting with needed resources and supports. In addition we offer a variety of volunteer programming th…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $2.8M | — | — | $65K | $0 |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $3.2M | $24.4M | $102K | $200K | $605K |
| 2022 | $3.7M | $4M | $3.1M | $140K | $394K | $490K |
| 2021 | $3.8M | $3.9M | $2.8M | $64K | $580K | $766K |
| 2020 | $3.3M | $3.4M | $2.5M | $92K | $444K | $749K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $65K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $650K from 23 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$249K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$76K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- Canadahelps Canadon$58K
- William S. Herron Family Charitable Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$22K
- Prairie Crocus Foundation$20K
- Calgary CO-Op Community Foundation$15K
- Norrep Foundation$15K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$7,900
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$7,500
- Four Feet Companion Foundation$3,000
- Carthy Foundation$3,000
- Georgina Sawyer Memorial Foundation$3,000
- BenefAction Foundation$2,013
- The Philip Smith Foundation$2,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1,226
- Mountain View Academy Society$1,000
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$1,000
- ATCO Electric Epic$916
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions42
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Miguel Kanafany (president); Mark Kolesar (past president); Athena O'Bryan (secretary); Kurt Hanson (director); Veronika Duska (director); Mina Iannuzzi (treasurer); Warren Chorney (director); Annastasia Stevens (ex-officio); Joel Sinclair (ex-officio).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Calgary Seniors' Resource Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 886737352RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.