Catholic Social Services
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 133696559RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($120,823,259) as filed with the CRA.
Catholic Social Services is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, 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 $121.7M in revenue and $120.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 91% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.3M.
Compared with 29 religious institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 928 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Provide residential outreach and rehabilitation services to children and adults with mental and/or physical disabilities. Provide foster care and treatment home services for abused and/or emotionally disturbed children. Provide accommodation settlement assistance language and counselling to immigrants and refugees. Provide individual family in home crisis and premaritual counselling homeless initiatives (youth and adult).
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $121.7M | $120.8M | $104.6M | — | — | $5.2M |
| 2023 | $116.7M | $117M | $101.9M | — | — | $4.3M |
| 2022 | $105.9M | $105.2M | $91.9M | — | — | $4.6M |
| 2021 | $103M | $101.5M | $88.7M | — | — | $3.9M |
| 2020 | $101.5M | $102.6M | $88.5M | — | — | $2.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3.3M from 23 charities:
- The Sign of Hope Society Archdiocese of Edmonton$2.7M
- The Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton$163K
- Canadian National Christian Foundation$125K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$64K
- Indigenous Reconciliation Fund$49K
- Lloydminster Region Health Foundation Inc.$39K
- BenefAction Foundation$22K
- Saint John's School of Alberta Legacy Foundation$21K
- The Marian Centre$15K
- ST Paul's Foundation (edmonton)$15K
- The Ukrainian Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Western Canada$10K
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$9,481
- Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada$5,000
- Allan Street Foundation$5,000
- The Alberta Knights of Columbus Charitable Foundation$4,050
- Aqueduct Foundation$2,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,500
- Soeurs de la Charite de Notre Dame d'Evron$700
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$537
- Canada Gives$500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$246
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$51
- Children's Aid Foundation of Canada—
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
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions928
- Total compensation, all staff$87.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carole Anctil-Michalyshyn (director); Sett Policicchio (chair); Joseph Spelliscy (vice chair); Rebecca Kallal (director); Patrick Baska (archbishop's representative); Meghan Deroo McConnan (treasurer); Henry Effron (secretary); Tim Yeh (director); Graham Hicks (director); Rym Khawam (director); Ken Mark (director); Patricia Hinds (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Catholic Social Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 133696559RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.