Discovery House Family Violence Prevention Society
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 118823483RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,909,121) as filed with the CRA.
Discovery House Family Violence Prevention Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $5M in revenue and $4.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 9% from donations, 31% from government, 49% from other charities. In 2024, 38 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.7M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 31% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 86% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 43 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Discovery House is a non-profit organization providing a continuum of care to families leaving domestic violence. We provide transitional housing offering long-term safe places for families to call home while they begin rebuilding their lives. Our team of professionals provide families with customized supports and counselling to help mitigate the impacts of trauma and programs to prevent the cycle of abuse from repeating in future relationships. Discovery House is about hope and healing.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5M | $4.9M | $3.9M | $307K | — | $4.2M |
| 2023 | $4.9M | $5M | $3.7M | $309K | — | $4.2M |
| 2022 | $5.5M | $5.3M | $4M | $417K | — | $4.3M |
| 2021 | $5.3M | $5M | $3.8M | $370K | — | $4.2M |
| 2020 | $4.2M | $4.5M | $3.4M | $327K | — | $3.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $2.7M from 38 charities:
- Calgary Homeless Foundation$1.5M
- The Calgary Foundation$539K
- Aqueduct Foundation$110K
- The Auxilium Foundation$100K
- P.E.A.R.L. Foundation$50K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$41K
- The Greene Family Charitable Foundation$40K
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$40K
- Calgary Real Estate Board Charitable Foundation$35K
- The Palmer Family Foundation$25K
- ATCO Electric Epic$23K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$20K
- The Qr77/westin Hotel Calgary Children's Foundation$20K
- David and Penny Wilson Family Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$19K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$16K
- The Burns Memorial Fund for Children$15K
- The Chawkers foundation$13K
- Canadahelps Canadon$12K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$11K
- Canada Gives$10K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$10K
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$10K
- Mary Kay Ash Charitable Foundation - Canada$10K
- S.M. Blair Family Foundation$10K
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
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions43
- Total compensation, all staff$3.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tom Whalen (director); Dale Brown (treasurer); Kristin Anderson (secretary); Dr. Dawn Johnston (director); Gabriela Gonzalez (director); Marcie Hawranik (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Discovery House Family Violence Prevention Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118823483RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.