Help a Buddy Fund
Public foundation · ST. Albert, Alberta · BN 776490732RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($33,650) as filed with the CRA.
Help a Buddy Fund is a public foundation based in ST. Albert, Alberta, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $32K in revenue and $34K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $690.
Compared with 430 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 62% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 14 qualified donees totalling $25K in 2024, the largest being $8,251 to Second Chance Animal Rescue Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $4,717 in 2020 to $32K in 2024.
In its own words
We financially support registered charitable animal welfare groups in Alberta by offering monetary grants and joint fundraising efforts to those who have programs in place to support animals in need of long-term rehabilitation of a year or more or those with animals requiring emergency medical care. We conduct research on the animal welfare community in Alberta and share our resources with the public. We develop networking opportunities in which organizations dedicated to the rehabilitation and rehoming of animals can participate and use the knowledge shared by experts within the field of an…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $32K | $34K | $6,248 | — | $26K | $6,920 |
| 2023 | $33K | $33K | $6,742 | — | $27K | $8,117 |
| 2022 | $21K | $18K | $16K | — | $16K | $8,025 |
| 2021 | $15K | $11K | $3,546 | — | $7,551 | $5,010 |
| 2020 | $4,717 | $3,371 | — | — | $1,373 | $1,549 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $25K to 14 qualified donees:
- Second Chance Animal Rescue Society$8,251
- Meika's Safehouse Ltd.$2,768
- Humane Animal Rescue Team Society (harts)$2,550
- Out of Africa Animal Sanctuary Ltd.$2,500
- Zoe's Animal Rescue Society$2,179
- Animal Rescue Transfer Society$2,030
- Providing Animals With Safety for Life Foundation$807
- Saving Grace Animal Society$689
- Hope Lives Here Animal Rescue Society$688
- Beagle Paws Inc.$684
- Nanton & District Animal Protection Society$670
- The Last Chance Cat Ranch Society$630
- Alberta Dachshund Rescue$500
- Tails to Tell Animal Rescue Shelter Ltd.$250
Received $690 from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Help a Buddy Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 776490732RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.