Grande Prairie Youth Emergency Shelter Society
Charitable organization · Grande Prairie, Alberta · BN 875596603RR0001 · Supportive Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,830,099) as filed with the CRA.
Grande Prairie Youth Emergency Shelter Society is a charitable organization based in Grande Prairie, Alberta, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.3M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations, 44% from government. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $244K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 2% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 85% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 31 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Sunrise house shelter program - provides temporary emergency shelter to youth 12-17 who have become or are at risk of becoming homeless. The program provides counselling mediation and referrals. While in the shelter youth are provided with meals access to clothing and personal care items
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.3M | $1.8M | $128K | $32K | — | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1M | $34K | $79K | — | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $1M | $17K | $3,604 | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $903K | $24K | $2,221 | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $1.6M | $860K | $65K | $12K | — | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $244K from 13 charities:
- A Way Home: Working Together to End Youth Homelessness$68K
- Big Hearts Charitable Foundation$58K
- Canadahelps Canadon$35K
- Canadahelps Canadon$35K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$17K
- RBC Foundation$10K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$7,951
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$5,000
- Raising the Roof chez Toit$5,000
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$3,932
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$125
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$108
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$72
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
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions31
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Richard Vanderzee (chair); Sean Doerkson (director); Monique Nadrynechny (director); Candace Boechler (secretary); Lisa Watson (vice president); Tanya Wald (executive director); Darren Olsen (director); Allison Timoffee (director); Shane Wallis (director); Tenille Townes (director); Leon Gullickson (director); Amy Sloat (director); Megan Stevenson (director); Lindsay Friesen (direcotr).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Grande Prairie Youth Emergency Shelter Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 875596603RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.