Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

Kids Kottage Foundation

Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 132071135RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website

Your $100, itemizedKids Kottage FoundationFiscal year ended March 31, 2024
Charitable programs$79
Management & admin$11
Fundraising$10
TOTAL$100
RegisteredPublicly funded

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,561,201) as filed with the CRA.

Kids Kottage Foundation is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, 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 $2.8M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 37% from donations, 58% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 26 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $548K.

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 15% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.

Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.8M in 2020 to $2.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.

In its own words

The crisis nursery program supports a caregiver who is isolated lack natural support and struggle with problems that require temporary care for their children. The children (newborn to ten years of age) are provided with twenty-four-hour care for up to three days by trained and skilled child care providers and while they are in our care we attend to every facet of a child’s safety and wellbeing. We provide both physical protection and the emotional security needed in what is often a stressful time in the lives of these young children and their caregivers. The crisis nursery program also …

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$2.8M$2.6M$2M$262K—$1.8M
2023$2.1M$2.4M$1.7M$306K—$1.5M
2022$2.2M$2M$1.5M$235K—$1.8M
2021$2.4M$1.6M$1.2M$232K—$1.7M
2020$1.8M$1.8M$1.3M$430K—$955K

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Received $548K from 26 charities:

As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.

What it pays

Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:

  • $80,000–119,9994 positions
  • $40,000–79,9996 positions
  • Permanent full-time positions19
  • Total compensation, all staff$2M

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Lauren Armstrong (vice-chair); Sheldon Cardinal (chairperson); Rae-Lee Doll (treasurer); Michael Gunther (director); Ron Hynes (director); Emma Leegsma (director); Dianne McPhail (director); Pam Miller (ex-officio director); Dan Peskett (director); Olga Pupneja (director); Lori Reiter (ex-officio director); Rosanna Saccomani (director); Todd Schnirer (director); Daron Stewart (secretary); Rae Thygesen (director); Nicole Wiebe (director).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from Kids Kottage Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 132071135RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.