Habitat for Humanity Southern Alberta Society
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 135820496RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($19,288,196) as filed with the CRA.
Habitat for Humanity Southern Alberta Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $22.1M in revenue and $19.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 35% from donations, 9% from government, 7% from other charities. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.1M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 46% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 76 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $25K in 2024, the largest being $25K to Habitat for Humanity Canada/habitat pour l'Humanité Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Habitat for Humanity Southern Alberta promotes home ownership as the means to break the poverty cycle. This is accomplished by: -Construction of Affordable homes for low income families -Selection of partner families for Habitat homes -Support and Education for partner families on care and maintenance of homes -Provide Interest free mortgage to partner families -Carry out Peak Ownership program in Partnership with Alberta Housing and Municipal Affairs and Trico Charitable Foundation. The Peak Program provides potential homeowners with assistance to qualify for mortages Operates 3 Re…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $22.1M | $19.3M | $17M | $484K | $25K | $39.5M |
| 2023 | $28.8M | $32.7M | $30.6M | $471K | $25K | $36.6M |
| 2022 | $18M | $19.8M | $17.7M | $473K | $25K | $40.5M |
| 2021 | $21M | $23.8M | $22M | $360K | $25K | $39.4M |
| 2020 | $18.7M | $19.4M | $17.6M | $327K | $25K | $41.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $25K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $2.1M from 19 charities:
- Habitat for Humanity Canada/habitat pour l'Humanité Canada$1.5M
- Shaw Family Foundation$200K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$58K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$56K
- The Calgary Foundation$54K
- Danish Lutheran Church$30K
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$13K
- BenefAction Foundation$11K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$6,327
- Aqueduct Foundation$5,000
- Viewpoint Foundation$5,000
- Abundance Canada$4,125
- Centra Cares Foundation$1,000
- ATCO Electric Epic$730
- Calgary Flames Foundation$50
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$20
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions76
- Total compensation, all staff$5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Barber (past chair); Leland Corbett (chair); Lisa Smandych (secretary/treasurer); Vincent Fera (director); William Wells (director); Hansine Ulberg (director); Heather Klein-Swormink (director); David Hooper (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Habitat for Humanity Southern Alberta Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 135820496RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.