Chalice (Canada)
Charitable organization · Bedford, Nova Scotia · BN 137591012RR0001 · Support of Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($34,350,238) as filed with the CRA.
Chalice (Canada) is a charitable organization based in Bedford, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $35.8M in revenue and $34.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 95% from donations. In 2024, 168 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.6M.
Compared with 158 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 47 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $19K in 2024, the largest being $19K to Elimu Development Projects. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Chalice (canada) is a canadian catholic international charitable organization that sponsors over 49 000 children and elders in 15 countries. Through their sponsorship program chalice provides direct support to families primarily through women's accompaniment groups where mothers of sponsored children learn teach share encourage and strengthen each other in responding to the daily challenges of living in conditions of national poverty. While focusing on child education nutrition and health care programs and material supports chalice also offers human development programs to enhance e…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $35.8M | $34.4M | $30.7M | $2.2M | $19K | $14.5M |
| 2023 | $34.7M | $33.3M | $29.7M | $2.1M | $90K | $13.1M |
| 2022 | $33.7M | $35M | $31.7M | $1.9M | — | $11.7M |
| 2021 | $33M | $30.4M | $27.3M | $1.8M | — | $12.9M |
| 2020 | $30.9M | $29.6M | $26.6M | $1.7M | $63K | $10.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $19K to 1 qualified donee:
- Elimu Development Projects$19K
Received $1.6M from 168 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$298K
- Canadahelps Canadon$298K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$168K
- Aqueduct Foundation$119K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$107K
- Roman Catholic Archbishop of Vancouver$70K
- Celtic Cross Charitable Foundation Trust$60K
- The Pindoff Family Charitable Foundation$50K
- The Bosco Society for Disturbed Adolescents$50K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$27K
- Lux in Tenebris Foundation$26K
- ATCO Electric Epic$26K
- JMJ Foundation$22K
- Virginia's Arc Private Foundation$15K
- The Hugh and Laura MacKinnon and Family Foundation$10K
- Lamb Foundation$10K
- The Heuver Family Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$9,595
- Frasnian Foundation$8,064
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$7,266
- The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School Division$7,112
- ST. Stephen Protomartyr Ukrainian Catholic Church$7,100
- Abundance Canada$7,000
- ST. Paul Roman Catholic Parish Fort McMurray$6,775
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$6,505
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions47
- Total compensation, all staff$3.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joseph Robichaud (chairperson and director); Peter Browne (treasurer and director); Martin Currie (director); Robert Furneaux (director); Patrick Cosgrove (president staff); Lorraine Lafferty (vice chairperson and director); Donald Wishart (director); Malcolm Pinto (director); Talita Valadares (secretary and director); Michael Foster (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chalice (Canada)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 137591012RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.