Luna Child and Youth Advocacy Centre LTD.
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 826793283RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,992,056) as filed with the CRA.
Luna Child and Youth Advocacy Centre LTD. is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $4.9M in revenue and $5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 58% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $459K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 22 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Luna’s purpose is to ensure children youth and families impacted by child abuse receive the support they need to heal; to hold offenders accountable; and to build engaged communities where everyone plays a role in preventing abuse so that all children and youth are safe. We realize this purpose through our multi-disciplinary team with expertise in forensic interviewing law enforcement child protection prosecution mental health medical assessment victim services the education sector prevention and advocacy. Each year Luna serves close to 3 000 children youth and families from C…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.9M | $5M | $4.2M | $334K | — | $5.8M |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $4.7M | $3.8M | $201K | — | $5.9M |
| 2022 | $4.7M | $5.1M | $4.2M | $404K | — | $6.2M |
| 2021 | $4.9M | $4.8M | $3.9M | $426K | — | $6.6M |
| 2020 | $4.5M | $3.7M | $3.1M | $199K | $0 | $6.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $459K from 22 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$98K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$60K
- Norris Family Foundation$50K
- RBC Foundation$45K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$42K
- The Greene Family Charitable Foundation$40K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$26K
- CKLAS Foundation$24K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Ember Fund$18K
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$5,025
- Ross-Lynn Charitable Foundation$4,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$3,784
- The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division$2,692
- ST David's United Church Foundation of Calgary$2,500
- Canada Gives$2,500
- Polish Canadian Humanitarian Society$2,500
- Three Hills Victim Services Association$2,000
- The United Church of Canada Foundation$1,000
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$226
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$50
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
- $120,000–159,9995 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions22
- Total compensation, all staff$2.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gary Strother (director); Tara McCool (director); Nancy Foster (chair); Trevor Daroux (director); Suzanne Kendall (director); Mike Tuff (director); Jarvis Nicoll (director); Melissa Smith (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Luna Child and Youth Advocacy Centre LTD.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 826793283RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.