Free Play for Kids Inc.
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 723675120RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,681,451) as filed with the CRA.
Free Play for Kids Inc. is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.9M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 36% from government. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $356K.
Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $2.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The organization operates to provide vulnerable children with the opportunity to play in a safe accessible and inclusive environment in the greater edmonton area. The organization provides the necessary space equipment and transportation required for children to engage in organized play and recreation. To provide vulnerable kids with the opportunity to focus on their leadership skills. To provide families with emergency food. To provide programming for children of afghan refugees to provide organized sports and recreational programs to students with lower-income backgrounds at centrali…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $2.7M | — | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $2.9M | $2.7M | — | — | — | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $2.6M | $2.4M | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $1.9M | $1.8M | $1.6M | — | — | $652K |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $950K | $806K | — | — | $580K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $356K from 22 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$72K
- Canadahelps Canadon$72K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$70K
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$23K
- Hockey Alberta Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- MLSE Foundation$10K
- Allard Foundation LTD.$10K
- Melton Foundation$10K
- Cam & Dawn Allard Family Foundation$10K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$10K
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$8,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$4,297
- Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation$3,306
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,564
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$977
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$500
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$100
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$52
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$25
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
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lindsay-Anne Freire (past chair); CJ Blye (chair); Jerry Rudelic (director); Renee Chan (director); Paige Kennedy (treasurer); Heather Cowie (director); Rebecca Rubuliak (vice president); Carolyn Mathew (director and chair of com(...)); Maurice Dransfeld (director); Rizan Kanji (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Free Play for Kids Inc.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 723675120RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.