Lil E Coffee Café (Calgary)
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 700972086RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($883,479) as filed with the CRA.
Lil E Coffee Café (Calgary) is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $888K in revenue and $883K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 29% from donations. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $123K.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 64% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 76% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 33 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $80K in 2020 to $888K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
All of Lil E Coffee Cafe front line employees are people with Down Syndrome or are on the Autism spectrum with the exception of the General Manager and three more employees. Lil E Coffee Cafe's purpose is to provide the employees with a working skill set that should provide them with new employment opportunities in the future. At the end of 2024 Lil E Coffee Cafe employed 31 employees with 27 employees being trained to obtain a suitable skill set working environment.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $888K | $883K | $798K | $6,973 | $0 | $244K |
| 2023 | $882K | $862K | $797K | $3,354 | — | $240K |
| 2022 | $361K | $379K | $300K | $22K | — | $220K |
| 2021 | $354K | $278K | $194K | $35K | — | $238K |
| 2020 | $80K | $14K | $13K | — | — | $162K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $123K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions33
- Total compensation, all staff$484K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Paul Constance (director); Justin Pettigrew (director); Curtis Slater (director); Michael Kelly (director); Daniel Amador (director); Alison Popp (director); Scott Irwin (director); Brian Milne (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Lil E Coffee Café (Calgary)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 700972086RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.