Distinctive Employment Counselling Services
Charitable organization · ST. Albert, Alberta · BN 124733676RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2022-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,397) as filed with the CRA.
Distinctive Employment Counselling Services is a charitable organization based in ST. Albert, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2022, it reported $32 in revenue and $6,397 in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $12.
Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 7 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.6M in 2020 to $32 in 2022. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Provides assistance to individuals with specific employment barriers to achieve paid employment
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2022
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | $32 | $6,397 | — | — | — | $2.4M |
| 2021 | $1,191 | $6,538 | — | — | — | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $560K | $228K | — | — | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $12 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions7
- Total compensation, all staff$429K
Schedule 3 of its 2020 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2022)
Rob Jack (chairman); Declan Braiden (director); Ayako Ohtake (director).
As listed on its 2022 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Distinctive Employment Counselling Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 124733676RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.