Centre for Newcomers Society of Calgary
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 100731660RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($24,904,293) as filed with the CRA.
Centre for Newcomers 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $24.9M in revenue and $24.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 88% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 76% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 183 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $10.9M in 2020 to $24.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Centre for Newcomers is offering the following services to new immigrants to Canada during the fiscal year: 1) Employment and training services such as career planning job search assistance and skills training. 2) English language training. 3) Settlement and integration services for adults youth and children. 4) Community-Based Care for Newcomer Children program - supplements the existing provincial childcare subsidy enabling clients to access private or not-for-profit childcare in the community at no cost for the duration of their enrollment in LINC programming. Support is provided to the…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $24.9M | $24.9M | $22.1M | $92K | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $20.3M | $20.3M | $17.9M | $101K | — | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $19M | $19M | $17.1M | $31K | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $15.1M | $15M | $13.3M | $17K | — | $1.3M |
| 2020 | $10.9M | $10.9M | $9.4M | $28K | — | $1.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.2M from 20 charities:
- Calgary Learns Association$317K
- Calgary Homeless Foundation$280K
- The Calgary Foundation$158K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$150K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$138K
- Canadahelps Canadon$37K
- Canadahelps Canadon$37K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$25K
- Trico Charitable Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- Loran Scholars Foundation$5,000
- Abundance Canada$4,620
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$2,000
- Spruce Meadows Leg Up Foundation$1,880
- Human Concern International (hci)$1,500
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$1,000
- Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue$967
- ATCO Electric Epic$650
- Foothills Mennonite Church$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions183
- Total compensation, all staff$16M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Mark Hopkins (past chair); Laura Linnell (chair); Donald MacDiarmid (member); Veronica Tang (member); Alysha Kanji (vice chair); Vivek Warrier (member); Jason Kraatz (treasurer/secretary); Jessica Lacroix (member); Zai Mamdani (member); Onai Abote (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Centre for Newcomers Society of Calgary’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 100731660RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.