Cochrane and Area Humane Society
Charitable organization · Cochrane, Alberta · BN 898488226RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,619,157) as filed with the CRA.
Cochrane and Area Humane Society is a charitable organization based in Cochrane, Alberta, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 43% from donations, 9% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $998K.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 6 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Care and re-home animals operate a shelter animal hospital provide education and outreach programs to communities on animal welfare by providing pets in need with shelter rehabilitation and training opportunities support people in responsible pet ownership and care provide spay and neuter programs investigate animal abuse assist with rural rescue services offer obedience and animal training classes and provide other miscellaneous pet services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.6M | $2.3M | $106K | — | $2.2M |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $2.2M | $1.9M | $97K | — | $2.5M |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $2M | $1.8M | $33K | — | $2.6M |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1.7M | $29K | — | $2.6M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $1.8M | $1.6M | $3,844 | — | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $998K from 26 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$702K
- The Byler Foundation$80K
- Petsmart Charities of Canada$37K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$35K
- Canadahelps Canadon$29K
- Canadahelps Canadon$29K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- Berkhold Family Foundation$20K
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$10K
- BenefAction Foundation$8,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$5,000
- Olympia Charitable Foundation$3,960
- United Way of Calgary and Area$3,714
- The Cochrane and District Community Foundation$2,950
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,928
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,151
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,956
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$500
- Avery Linton Legacy Foundation$500
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$400
- The Rocky View School Division$305
- BC Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust$140
- Place2Give Foundation$110
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions6
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lorraine Wesley (chair); Tanya Clarke (director); Michael Styczen (director); Ryan Tomlinson (director); Norman Peterson (director); Dave Knight (director); Keith Rae (director); Mark Burchby (director); Callin Sereda (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cochrane and Area Humane Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898488226RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.