Edmonton Meals on Wheels
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 118893940RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,166,493) as filed with the CRA.
Edmonton Meals on Wheels 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 $3.2M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 15% from government. In 2024, 20 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $394K.
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 18% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 76% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 31 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Edmonton meals on wheels prepares nutritious meals and provides home delivery by trained volunteers to persons in edmonton who qualify so that they may remain in their homes and to promote the maintenance or improvement of their physical emotional and to promote the maintenance or improvement of their physical emotional and social well-being. Volunteers contribute over 60 000 hours to assist the charity in its meal preparation and service delivery activities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.2M | $3.2M | $2.3M | $186K | — | $3.3M |
| 2023 | $2.7M | $2.7M | $1.8M | $176K | — | $3.3M |
| 2022 | $2M | $2.7M | $2.2M | $123K | — | $3.2M |
| 2021 | $3.4M | $2.9M | $2.4M | $161K | — | $3.9M |
| 2020 | $3.1M | $2.4M | $2M | $128K | — | $3.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $394K from 20 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$77K
- Canadahelps Canadon$77K
- The Stollery Charitable Foundation$55K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$53K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$20K
- Henry Gusse Foundation$15K
- Deo Gratias Foundation$10K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$10K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$8,892
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$7,500
- Edmonton Realtors' Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Wolfe Pack Warriors Foundation$2,000
- Beulah Alliance Church of Edmonton$2,000
- Canada Gives$1,000
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$387
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$295
- Carthy Foundation$250
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$75
- Sisters of Holy Cross Saint Theresa Province—
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions31
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sven Anders (director); Shelly Blackburn (director); Dan Campbell (director); Vince Campbell (casino chair); Linda Chow-Turner (past president); Rob Christie (secretary); Rev Darda (director); Pam King-Jesso (director); Michael Kirk (president); Pieter Lambooy (director); Amy Oygen (vice president); Glenn Quinn (director); Shannon Troke (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Edmonton Meals on Wheels’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118893940RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.