Edmonton Community Legal Centre
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 860723279RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,455,229) as filed with the CRA.
Edmonton Community Legal Centre is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $4.5M in revenue and $3.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from donations. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $103K.
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 78% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 32 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $100K in 2024, the largest being $100K to The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.7M in 2020 to $4.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Provides free legal services in family civil immigration and administrative law to low income people living in edmonton and throughout northern alberta.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.5M | $3.5M | $3.2M | — | $100K | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $3M | $2.9M | — | — | $528K |
| 2022 | $2.7M | $2.7M | $2.5M | — | — | $479K |
| 2021 | $2.7M | $2.7M | $2.5M | — | — | $465K |
| 2020 | $2.7M | $2.5M | $2.3M | — | — | $415K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $100K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $103K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions32
- Total compensation, all staff$2.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Danielle Collins (director); Jackie Foord (director); Maya Gordon (secretary); Debbie Klein (executive director); Wendy Moody (director); Lynn Parish (vice chair); Robert Philp (director); Nathan Po (director); Gary Smith (treasurer); Tiffany Stokes (board chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Edmonton Community Legal Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 860723279RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.