Carya Society of Calgary
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 118823475RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($9,237,335) as filed with the CRA.
Carya Society of Calgary 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $9.6M in revenue and $9.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 69% from government, 19% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.7M.
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 21% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 81 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Elder friendly communities families in community wellness collective community development learning initiative east village hub the way in social prescribing elder abuse victims of crime family counselling older adult counselling adoption kinship fuctional family therapy functional resource networks food/misc communtiy programming financial wellness
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.6M | $9.2M | $7.5M | $82K | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $8.8M | $8.9M | $7.2M | $66K | — | $963K |
| 2022 | $9.8M | $10.1M | $8.2M | $70K | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $10.6M | $10.9M | $9M | $109K | — | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $10.4M | $10.5M | $8.6M | $119K | — | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.7M from 20 charities:
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1.1M
- United Way of Calgary and Area$262K
- Calgary Learns Association$73K
- Calgary CO-Op Community Foundation$40K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$38K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$27K
- The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund$25K
- Alberta Retired Teachers Charitable Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- The AIMCo Foundation for Financial Education$15K
- HelpAge Canada$10K
- The Burns Memorial Fund for Children$9,700
- The Calgary Foundation$6,000
- ATCO Electric Epic$1,300
- Shepherd of the Hills Lutheran Church$500
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$326
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$148
- Faith Food Bank Society—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions81
- Total compensation, all staff$6.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jennifer Santry (past chair); Nina Vaughan (vice-chair); Lynda Paananen (treasurer); J.P. Gerritsen (director); Shannon Hughes (director); Deanna Shymkiw Yeo (director); Kirsty Sklar (director); Avril Martin-Maclean (director); Bruce Edgelow (board chair); Jessica Kruhlak (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Carya Society of Calgary’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118823475RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.