Distress Centre Calgary
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 107021024RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($10,588,297) as filed with the CRA.
Distress Centre Calgary is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $10.7M in revenue and $10.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 48% from government, 39% from other charities. In 2024, 24 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 79% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 280 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
Distress centre calgary (dcc) has provided 24-hour crisis support youth peer support and system navigation at no cost in calgary and southern alberta since 1970. We do this through our 24-hour crisis line email online chat and text messages. Systems navigation support is provided 24-hour by phone chat and text through 211. We also have professional counselling support for clients with issues that cannot be resolved over the phone. Furthermore our coordinated access and assessment (caa) program serves calgarians experiencing homelessness out of the safe communities opporunity and resource…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.7M | $10.6M | $9.8M | $416K | — | $3.2M |
| 2023 | $10.7M | $10.6M | $9.8M | $416K | — | $3.2M |
| 2022 | $9M | $8.6M | $8.1M | $166K | — | $3.1M |
| 2021 | $8.6M | $8.1M | $7.6M | $174K | — | $2.8M |
| 2020 | $8.1M | $6.9M | $6.3M | $55K | — | $2.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $3M from 24 charities:
- Calgary Homeless Foundation$1.4M
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1M
- United Way of Calgary and Area$135K
- The Calgary Foundation$70K
- RBC Foundation$60K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$46K
- William S. Herron Family Charitable Foundation$35K
- The Lecky Foundation$30K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$25K
- Clearwater Charitable Foundation$25K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$25K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Canadahelps Canadon$16K
- The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund$15K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$10K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$10K
- Ross-Lynn Charitable Foundation$3,000
- New Covenant Assembly Calgary$2,000
- United Way of Canada$1,775
- The Wagemakers Foundation$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Campbell-Stone United Church (christian Church/disciples of Christ and the United Church of Canada)$500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$250
- United Way of Greater Toronto$78
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
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions280
- Total compensation, all staff$8.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kiersten Mohr (chair); Chantal Milloy (vice-chair); Rachael Golembuski (treasurer); Aminda Galappaththi (director at large); Lori Berg (director at large); Tonino Rizzuti (director at large); Kevin Drinkwater (director at large); Serge Leckie (director at large); Dilan Yogasundaram (director at large); Kara Patterson (director at large); Jeremy Busch-Howell (director at large); Jacqueline Elaine Chang (director at large); Stacey Meyer (director at large); Timothy Mason Shaw (director at large); Robyn Romano (ex-officio).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Distress Centre Calgary’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107021024RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.