Community Therapy Dogs Society
Charitable organization · Chestermere, Alberta · BN 810933770RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,146) as filed with the CRA.
Community Therapy Dogs Society is a charitable organization based in Chestermere, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $8,817 in revenue and $10K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $867.
Compared with 3,624 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $18K in 2020 to $8,817 in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
1) school and library centered programs which provide the opportunity for children to gain confidence in reading out loud to a therapy dog. The program allows the children to de-stress and refocus on learning by being with a nonjudgmental listener (the dog\). Our clients are in grades 1-8. 2) visitation program where our handlers take their therapy dogs to visit seniors and hospital patients thereby enhancing the quality of their lives by allowing both seniors and patients to experience the unconditional love of the dogs. The benefit is both mental and physical thereby adding to the quality…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8,817 | $10K | $10K | — | — | $47K |
| 2023 | $9,490 | $25K | $25K | — | — | $48K |
| 2022 | $28K | $11K | $11K | — | — | $63K |
| 2021 | $26K | $14K | — | — | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $18K | $15K | — | — | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $867 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Bauhuis (president); Dominique Racine (director at large); Nicole Tulissi (treasurer); Allan Dickie (secretary (non signing authori); Kelly Jacobson (director at large); Kenneth Smolinski (director at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Community Therapy Dogs Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 810933770RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.