Empowering Citizens for Health and Opportunity Society
Publicly funded institution · Whitecourt, Alberta · BN 891974222RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,713,628) as filed with the CRA.
Empowering Citizens for Health and Opportunity Society is a charitable organization based in Whitecourt, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $1.9M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2021, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $336.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Charitable programs include residential services to persons with disabilities enabling them to lead a more enriched and productive life timely relief and respite crisis intervention counselling camps and day programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $1.7M | $1.6M | — | — | $546K |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.5M | $960 | — | $393K |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.6M | $5,389 | — | $288K |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.4M | $1,039 | — | $335K |
| 2020 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.4M | $13K | — | $226K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2021
Received $336 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,99912 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Shane Stevens (vice-chairperson); Rebecca Pruden (director); Gayle Mombourquette (chaiperson); Tabath Carrier (directors); Joanne ST. Martin (director); Ashley Stanchfeild (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Empowering Citizens for Health and Opportunity Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891974222RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.