Fresh Start Recovery Centre
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 136720737RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,325,534) as filed with the CRA.
Fresh Start Recovery Centre is a charitable organization based in Calgary, 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 $2.7M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 64% from government, 5% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.3M.
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 79% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 80 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $4.3M in 2020 to $2.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Fresh Start Recovery Centre has 3 treatment centre's in Alberta with 3 sober apartment buildings in which clients who are in recovery can live work and return to community as a person in recovery. Our program is 16 weeks based on the 12 steps of AA during this time clients are not able to work due to the commitment required of each individual. Our centre's treat both men and women seeking recovery. For the family & friends of individuals in recovery or active addiction we offer our Family Program which helps them understand the disease of addiction and how it affects the family. Our …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $2.3M | $2.2M | $36K | $0 | $20M |
| 2023 | $43.1M | $7.1M | $2.2M | $244K | $0 | $19.4M |
| 2022 | $5.7M | $5.3M | $4.8M | $119K | — | $13.7M |
| 2021 | $5.4M | $5.7M | $5.4M | $272K | — | $13.5M |
| 2020 | $4.3M | $5.6M | $3.4M | $55K | — | $12.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.3M from 22 charities:
- Calgary Homeless Foundation$500K
- The Calgary Foundation$398K
- Vitality Fund$100K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$61K
- Teamsters Canada Foundation Fondation Teamsters Canada$55K
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- Totem Charitable Foundation$25K
- Co-operators Community Fund (Charity)$20K
- Sam Ousher Switzer Charitable Foundation$18K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Hunter Family Foundation$10K
- The Ardea Foundation$6,000
- BenefAction Foundation$6,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$4,843
- ATCO Electric Epic$3,406
- Canada Gives$1,250
- Abundance Canada$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$559
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$500
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$18
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,99975 positions
- Permanent full-time positions80
- Total compensation, all staff$1.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Craig Borgland (chairman); Dale Burstall (vice chair); Charlene Mclaughlin (director); Glen Rumpel (director); Jan Gryckiewicz (treasurer); Harley Crowshoe (director); Stephanie Borgland (director); Shauneen Wilson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Fresh Start Recovery Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 136720737RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.