Communitywise Resource Centre
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119066694RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($454,520) as filed with the CRA.
Communitywise Resource Centre is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $530K in revenue and $455K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from government, 53% from other charities. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $92K.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 46% 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.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
CommunityWise Resource Centre is a nonprofit hub that for 40 years has existed to support and strengthen diverse grassroots groups and nonprofit organizations through our central location in the historic Old YWCA Building. We provide affordable office and community space backbone infrastructure (shared internet mailboxes office equipment) and collaborative capacity-building programming to about seventy member organizations. We also engage in a wide array of community and nonprofit sector development work with a focus on anti-racism and equity.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $530K | $455K | $377K | — | — | $349K |
| 2023 | $348K | $314K | $230K | — | — | $274K |
| 2022 | $304K | $298K | $210K | $1,081 | — | $240K |
| 2021 | $456K | $452K | $356K | $8,717 | — | $234K |
| 2020 | $511K | $454K | $368K | $5,398 | — | $341K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $92K from 3 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
- $1–39,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$172K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Elliot Dewhirst (director); Domingo Lumanog (director); Dana Lyons (secretary); Devon Ashe (director); Katherine Memedovich (president); Janeen Sawatzky (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Communitywise Resource Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119066694RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.