Calgary Young Women's Christian Association
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 108227927RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($23,310,464) as filed with the CRA.
Calgary Young Women's Christian Association is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of religion. 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 $31.3M in revenue and $23.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 54% from government, 13% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 42 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.6M.
Compared with 29 religious institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 170 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Yw calgary supports women and their families in meeting their immediate and most basic needs and works directly with them to create positive and long-lasting change in their lives. We believe that healthy women and healthy families lead to thriving communities and our services are designed to help women and their families find stability and build assets skills and confidence to make permanent positive change in their lives. Through various programs we support women and their families who are experiencing abuse homelessness poverty addiction mental health concerns and under employme…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $31.3M | $23.3M | $17.6M | $1.4M | — | $105.9M |
| 2023 | $46.4M | $18.4M | $13.6M | $1.2M | — | $97.9M |
| 2022 | $17M | $20M | $15.2M | $734K | — | $69.9M |
| 2021 | $21.4M | $17.6M | $11.9M | $669K | — | $72.9M |
| 2020 | $25.4M | $18.5M | $13M | $1.2M | — | $69M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5.6M from 42 charities:
- The Taylor Family Foundation$4.5M
- The Calgary Foundation$291K
- Aqueduct Foundation$168K
- Ptarmigan Charitable Foundation$125K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$80K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$68K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$58K
- Diane And Daryl Howard Charitable Foundation$50K
- The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund$49K
- The Kaiser Charitable Foundation (2011)$30K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- Canadahelps Canadon$21K
- BenefAction Foundation$14K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$12K
- Hunter Family Foundation$10K
- The Hotchkiss Family Foundation$10K
- Aia High Fives for Kids Foundation$7,000
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$5,000
- Wayne Foo Foundation$5,000
- Rozsa Foundation$5,000
- McCreath Foundation$5,000
- Canada Gives$4,000
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$3,695
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
- $200,000–249,9992 positions
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions170
- Total compensation, all staff$15.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Aalia Ratani (vice chair); Lisa Shelley (treasurer); Emily Wang (secretary); Deborah Petriuk (board member); Liz Stretch (board member); Pritma Dhillon Chattha (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Calgary Young Women's Christian Association’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108227927RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.