Chrysalis Charitable Foundation
Public foundation · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 140847781RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($383,668) as filed with the CRA.
Chrysalis Charitable Foundation is a public foundation based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $303K in revenue and $384K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 49% from donations. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $63K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 13% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $212K in 2024, the largest being $212K to Chrysalis: an Alberta Society for Citizens With Disabilities. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $780K in 2020 to $303K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The foundation provides funding to chrysalis: an alberta society for citizens with disabilities to suppor them achieving their mission of delivering personalized to support them acheiving their mission of delivering personalized services to disabled adults in alberta chrysalis society delivers services to the disabled to increase their community access individual autonomy and self sufficiency.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $303K | $384K | — | $20K | $212K | $2M |
| 2023 | $488K | $163K | — | $1,672 | $20K | $2M |
| 2022 | $175K | $125K | — | $56 | $77K | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $610K | $166K | — | $173 | $126K | $1.7M |
| 2020 | $780K | $392K | — | $25K | $276K | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $212K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $63K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$122K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Andrew McCormick (director); Anne Marie Downey (chair & director); Garth Norris (director); Melissa Gee (director); Paul Bouzanne (director); Blayne Blackburn (ceo/president); Aimee Langer (director); Wendy Nickerson (director); Audrey Jackson (director); Jordan Morgan (director); Mary Pat Barry (director); Fiona Ward (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Chrysalis Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 140847781RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.