Creating Hope Society of Alberta
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 859361123RR0001 · Core Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,599,087) as filed with the CRA.
Creating Hope Society of Alberta is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $1.6M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from government, 10% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $174K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 98% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $683K in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The society provides outreach services to members of the aboriginal community. The mandate of the society is to engage in a process of reconciliation that will allow aboriginal and non-aboriginal caregivers to arrive at a new place of understanding child welfare that will end forever the historically devastating impacts of child welfare. Programs include strengthening home fires connect the dots indigenous boys matter too encampment outreach all lives matter reintegration support youth elder parent cultural program and streets.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $1.3M | $56K | — | -$82K |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.2M | $985K | $43K | — | -$85K |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1.1M | $900K | $39K | — | -$154K |
| 2021 | $774K | $766K | $619K | $27K | — | -$131K |
| 2020 | $683K | $642K | $519K | $22K | — | -$139K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $174K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$908K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Amanda Knight (president); Crystal McCarthy-Nelson (director); Nicole Baker (secretary/treasurer); Teri-Ann Sinclair (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Creating Hope Society of Alberta’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 859361123RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.