Hull Services
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 130084858RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($47,314,800) as filed with the CRA.
Hull Services 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 $48M in revenue and $47.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 5% from donations, 80% from government, 8% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 34 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.4M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 524 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $26K in 2024, the largest being $25K to Buckspring Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Hull services is a multi-service organization that offers a range of evidence-based and evidence-informed programs that support children youth adults and families to overcome challenges and build resilience. Hull programs and services include prevention early intervention in-home support kinship and foster care group care school day treatment therapeutic campus-based care secure and stabilization programs supported interdependent living and education and training services.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $48M | $47.3M | $41.1M | $697K | $26K | $11.2M |
| 2023 | $47.6M | $47.3M | $41.7M | $475K | $916 | $10.6M |
| 2022 | $45.4M | $43.9M | $38.9M | $454K | $550 | $10.3M |
| 2021 | $45.8M | $45.5M | $40.9M | $375K | $500 | $8.8M |
| 2020 | $44.3M | $43.6M | $39.9M | $748K | $45K | $8.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $26K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $3.4M from 34 charities:
- Shaw Family Foundation$912K
- Gerald A. Cooper-Key Foundation$700K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$519K
- Hull Child and Family Foundation$495K
- The Calgary Foundation$284K
- The SJ Foundation$100K
- Trust Under the Will of William Roper Hull Estate - the William Roper Hull Home Trust$97K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$30K
- The Calgary Fetal Alcohol Network: An Alberta Story$27K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$25K
- Berkhold Family Foundation$25K
- BenefAction Foundation$22K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$20K
- RBC Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$18K
- The Burns Memorial Fund for Children$15K
- Aqueduct Foundation$12K
- Bild Calgary Region Foundation$11K
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,903
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$5,250
- The Hotchkiss Family Foundation$5,000
- Spruce Meadows Leg Up Foundation$4,975
- United Way of Greater Toronto$4,555
- Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation$3,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions524
- Total compensation, all staff$39.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Deborah Apps (member at large); Ross Middleton (chair); Kim Williams (member at large); Geri Greenall (member at large); Joanne Cox (vice chair); Jackie Sieppert (member at large); Chris Reimchen (member at large); Jeff Sterzuk (member at large); Andrew Sunter (member at large); Mark Brown (member at large); Howard Shikaze (member at large); Kory Wickenhauser (member at large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hull Services’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 130084858RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.