Kindred Connections Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 106880172RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($8,257,870) as filed with the CRA.
Kindred Connections Society 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $8.3M in revenue and $8.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 7% from donations, 73% from government, 12% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
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 position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 88 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
1. Counseling to all citizens of calgary with specialized counseling to young parents and their children. 2. Daycare services (licensed by province of alberta) to adolescent parents 3. Early childhood services to 'at risk' adolescents and their children. 4. Family services and counselling provided through outreach locations - schools churches community centers etc. 5. Administer daycare subsidy and learner bursary for girls at louise dean school with government of alberta funding.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.3M | $8.3M | $6.5M | $213K | $0 | $1.6M |
| 2023 | $7.7M | $7.6M | $5.6M | $242K | — | $1.6M |
| 2022 | $7.9M | $7.9M | $5.8M | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $8.6M | $8.6M | $7.2M | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2020 | $7.3M | $7.2M | $6.1M | — | — | $1.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.1M from 12 charities:
- United Way of Calgary and Area$885K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$86K
- The Calgary Foundation$32K
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$30K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$16K
- The Burns Memorial Fund for Children$15K
- Calgary Learns Association$15K
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$2,958
- Community Service Fund$1,860
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,370
- Polish Canadian Humanitarian Society$1,000
- Faith Food Bank Society—
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
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions88
- Total compensation, all staff$6.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kindred Connections Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106880172RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.