Centre for Suicide Prevention 2005
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 823280870RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,926,013) as filed with the CRA.
Centre for Suicide Prevention 2005 is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.9M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 32% from government. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $259K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 23 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.9M in 2020 to $2.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Centre for Suicide Prevention (CSP) continued delivering a variety of education workshops to equip participants with information knowledge and skills necessary to respond to people considering suicide. CSP also develops evidence-based resources and accessibility to suicide prevention research to create awareness; in addition to offering awareness campaigns such as Run for Life and Buddy Up.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $2.9M | $2.4M | $27K | — | $199K |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.9M | $2.5M | $27K | — | $187K |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $2.3M | $2M | $27K | — | $523K |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $5,360 | — | $464K |
| 2020 | $1.9M | $1.8M | $1.7M | $18K | — | $175K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $259K from 13 charities:
- Viewpoint Foundation$100K
- Hunter Family Foundation$50K
- The Calgary Foundation$27K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$16K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$13K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,561
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$8,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp.$5,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$903
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$300
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions23
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carmelle Hunka (president); Jim Campbell (vice president); David Dart (secretary-treasurer); Vincent Agyapong (director); William Bone (director); Michael Power (director); Mara Grunau (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Centre for Suicide Prevention 2005’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 823280870RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.