Calgary Young Men's Christian Association
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 118824168RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($69,447,344) as filed with the CRA.
Calgary Young Men's Christian Association is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $72.6M in revenue and $69.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from government. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2M.
Compared with 158 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 94% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 367 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $641 in 2024, the largest being $500 to Vivo for Healthier Generations Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $40.2M in 2020 to $72.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.
In its own words
Since inception in 1902 ymca calgary has evolved into a vibrant charity offering health and wellness programs leadership and community outreach programs childcare and day and overnight camps. Ymca calgary operates seven health and wellness facilities six childcare development centres with licensed childcare two outdoor campsites and dozens of community programs sites. Ymca calgary delivers programs services and opportunities to help calgarians connect build life-long skills and keep active and healthy.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $72.6M | $69.4M | $57.5M | $957K | $1,200 | $40.7M |
| 2023 | $67.8M | $65.7M | $54.7M | $941K | $5,750 | $37.5M |
| 2022 | $53.4M | $58.1M | $47.7M | $815K | — | $34.9M |
| 2021 | $41.3M | $44.5M | $39.3M | $439K | — | $34.5M |
| 2020 | $40.2M | $47.5M | $41.2M | $448K | $80 | $37.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $641 to 2 qualified donees:
Received $2M from 23 charities:
- United Way of Calgary and Area$838K
- The Calgary Foundation$261K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$250K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$223K
- RBC Foundation$75K
- The Fortmuller Family Foundation$63K
- Aqueduct Foundation$50K
- M-E Squared Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$44K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$36K
- Melton Foundation$25K
- The Young Men's Christian Association of Edmonton$12K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$11K
- Purple Platypus$10K
- Viewpoint Foundation$10K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$8,441
- BenefAction Foundation$7,000
- Nanaimo Community Foundation$5,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$5,000
- Olympia Charitable Foundation$3,960
- Vancouver Foundation$2,744
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,219
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9997 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions367
- Total compensation, all staff$37.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shannon Doram (president & ceo); Edward Rihn (board chair); Zain Velji (director); Duncan Melville (director); Beth Pollock (director); Kristine Robidoux (director); James Anderson (director); Roger Chaffin (board vice chair); Van Le (director); Aman Bhalla (director); Kathy Melton (director); Natasha Tiemstra (director); Tony Rizzuti (director); Sabrina Beauchamp (director); Michele Whelan (director); Neil Badyk (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Calgary Young Men's Christian Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118824168RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.