Meow Foundation for the Adoption of Abandoned Cats
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 895012813RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,518,613) as filed with the CRA.
Meow Foundation for the Adoption of Abandoned Cats is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from donations, 5% from government, 15% from other charities. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $423K.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (6 positions in that band). The charity reported 12 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
We rescue and facilitate the adoption of stray and abandoned cats into new loving permanent forever homes. MEOW Foundation also offers a Spay Neuter Assistance Program subsidizing low income families needing to spay/neuter their cats Cat Food Assistance Program and Trap Neuter Return program for cats living in the Calgary community. MEOW Foundation also offers cat care information and spay/neuter education to the public to promote responsible pet ownership and reduce the problem of pet overpopulation.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $1.5M | $1.1M | $62K | $0 | $3.2M |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.5M | $1M | $78K | — | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.5M | $890K | $251K | — | $2.4M |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.2M | $740K | $207K | — | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $1.1M | $601K | $153K | $1,500 | $2.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $423K from 29 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$133K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$76K
- Canadahelps Canadon$38K
- Canadahelps Canadon$38K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$28K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$25K
- The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation$25K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$14K
- The Shawana Foundation$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$6,530
- United Way of Greater Toronto$5,800
- Definity Insurance Foundation$5,000
- The Ian and Rochelle Laing Family Foundation Inc.$5,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$4,505
- BenefAction Foundation$3,527
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,276
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,072
- Canada Gives$500
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$500
- Viewpoint Foundation$500
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$357
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$250
- Werklund Foundation$250
- The Grant Macewan Charitable Foundation 2002$150
- Place2Give Foundation$110
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- $1–39,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions12
- Total compensation, all staff$615K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephanie Sterling (board chair); Patty Auger (director); Pamela Nemeth (director); Laura-Marie Berg (secretary); Sandra Francis-Wong (director); Sara Murray (director); Anita Luszszak (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Meow Foundation for the Adoption of Abandoned Cats’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 895012813RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.