Field of Crosses
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 744260084RR0001 · Public Amenities
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($294,983) as filed with the CRA.
Field of Crosses is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $417K in revenue and $295K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from donations, 28% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $340K.
Compared with 1,296 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $260K in 2020 to $417K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
To educate Canadians about the sacrifice made by our Canadian Military by recognizing honouring and memorialising Canadian Military personnel past and present especially those who gave up their lives in defence of this great country; To receive gifts bequests trusts funds and property and to hold invest develop manage administer and distribute funds and property for the objects of the Company; To conduct any and all activities and exercise any and all such powers that are incidental and ancillary to the attainment of the wholly charitable objects of the Company; And to gift funds …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $417K | $295K | $233K | — | — | $489K |
| 2023 | $421K | $260K | $205K | — | — | $366K |
| 2022 | $436K | $242K | $188K | — | — | $205K |
| 2021 | $327K | $230K | $176K | — | — | $11K |
| 2020 | $260K | $131K | $101K | — | — | -$86K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $340K from 15 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$134K
- Canadahelps Canadon$134K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$19K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$18K
- Berkhold Family Foundation$15K
- Tudor Ridge Foundation$10K
- Canada Gives$3,000
- Bonnie & Daryl Howard Charitable Foundation$2,000
- ATCO Electric Epic$1,300
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,175
- EON Foundation$1,000
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$859
- The Calgary Foundation$200
- Abundance Canada$150
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$75K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
James McCann (founder director emeritus); Susan Schalin (president); Eppo van Weelderen (treasurer); George Brookman (director); Sarah Wuntke (director); Shauna MacDonald (director); Kathy Sendall (director); Sean Libin (chairman); Martin Delaney (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Field of Crosses’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 744260084RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.