Metis Child and Family Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 119039246RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,293,046) as filed with the CRA.
Metis Child and Family Services Society 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 $5.4M in revenue and $5.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $556.
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 79% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 20 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Aboriginal visitation program foster care program choices community support home program family services program
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.4M | $5.3M | $5M | — | — | $443K |
| 2023 | $4.9M | $5.1M | $4.9M | — | — | $333K |
| 2022 | $5.3M | $5.3M | $5.1M | — | — | $538K |
| 2021 | $5.2M | $5.4M | $5.3M | — | — | $581K |
| 2020 | $5.9M | $6.1M | $5.8M | — | — | $989K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $556 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions20
- Total compensation, all staff$4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Audrey Poitras (president); Dan Cardinal (vice president); Lawrence Gervais (treasurer); Carol Ridsdale (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Metis Child and Family Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119039246RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.