Ever Active Schools
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 891288334RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($3,364,473) as filed with the CRA.
Ever Active Schools is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $3.5M in revenue and $3.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from government, 43% from other charities. In 2024, 14 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $568K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 68% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 29 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $205K in 2020 to $3.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Ever active schools is committed to increasing the physical activity in all children and youth by providing visionary leadership service as a knowledge broker and supporting effective programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.5M | $3.4M | $3.1M | — | — | — |
| 2023 | $4.6M | $4.4M | $3.6M | — | — | $547K |
| 2022 | $3.2M | $3.1M | $2.4M | — | — | $363K |
| 2021 | $2M | $1.7M | $1.2M | — | — | $299K |
| 2020 | $205K | $198K | $198K | — | — | $6,935 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $568K from 14 charities:
- Rideau Hall Foundation$84K
- The Calgary Foundation$83K
- Indigenous Reconciliation Fund$82K
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- Canadahelps Canadon$55K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$50K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- Air Canada Foundation$50K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$20K
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$20K
- The John and Dianne Storey Family Foundation$15K
- The Jane Goodall Institute for Wildlife Research Education and Conservation$5,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$188
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$97
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
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions29
- Total compensation, all staff$2.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alim Gillani (treasurer); Brian Andrais (director); Val Olekshy (director); Nancy Lyckfassel (director); Phoebe Day (director); Kimberly Kelly (director); Robert Young (past chair); Rebecca Smillie (chair); Norman Yankitski (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ever Active Schools’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891288334RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.