Closer to Home Community Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 898235759RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($12,445,047) as filed with the CRA.
Closer to Home Community Services Society 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 $12.5M in revenue and $12.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 76% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $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 21% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 184 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.9M in 2020 to $12.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Provision of programs and services for vulnerable children and families that includes five group homes foster care in-home family support indigenous services housing support programs early intervention services and two family resource centres.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $12.5M | $12.4M | $10.7M | $335K | — | $3M |
| 2023 | $12.5M | $12.7M | — | — | — | $3.1M |
| 2022 | $12M | $11.1M | — | — | — | $3.3M |
| 2021 | $10.3M | $8.3M | $7.3M | $109K | — | $2.3M |
| 2020 | $5.9M | $5.8M | $5.1M | $61K | — | $292K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2M from 20 charities:
- Calgary Homeless Foundation$1.6M
- United Way of Calgary and Area$115K
- Future Generations Foundation$108K
- Norris Family Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$36K
- Calgary Learns Association$30K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Abundance Canada$10K
- The Anonymous Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,811
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$5,000
- Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation$3,000
- The Calgary Foundation$2,958
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$2,500
- Scarboro United Church$2,073
- Rotary Club of Calgary North Foundation$1,250
- ATCO Electric Epic$936
- Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue$856
- Faith Food Bank Society—
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
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions184
- Total compensation, all staff$9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Patricia Bronsch (chair); Mark George (treasurer); Erin Viala (director); Shannon Friesen (director); Sarah Itani (director); Jody Whitney (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Closer to Home Community Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898235759RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.