Edson Friendship Centre
Publicly funded institution · Edson, Alberta · BN 101580918RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,310,148) as filed with the CRA.
Edson Friendship Centre is a charitable organization based in Edson, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.3M in revenue and $3.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 92% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $25K.
Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 93% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2M in 2020 to $3.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
The edson friendship centre is an indigenous cultural community development organization providing support services to indigenous and non-indigenous people of the edson area. Their objectives are to identify and provide support whenever possible to the social cultrual educationsl and recreational needs of the indigenous and non-indigenous of edson and area as such needs are ascertained. To initiate community action in respect to those needs set forth to promote and enhance community participation by people of indigenous and non-indigenous descent and to promote better understanding and re…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $3.3M | — | $332K | — | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $3M | $2.9M | $2.4M | $244K | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $3M | $3.1M | $2.8M | $182K | — | $1M |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $1.9M | $1.6M | $150K | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $2M | $2M | $1.3M | $561K | — | $696K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $25K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$1.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Peggy Sculthorp (president); Susan Longmore (vice president); Dale Beck (treasurer); Valerie Findlay (elder); Keira Gomuwka (youth delegate); Makayla Sculthorp (youth delegate); Loretta Belcourt (member); Dana Beck (member); Thelma Sculthorpe (elder); Ida Spencer (member); Renee Beck (member); Shari McDowell (member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Edson Friendship Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 101580918RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.