Mountain Plains Family Service Society of Edmonton
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 139725428RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,960,894) as filed with the CRA.
Mountain Plains Family Service Society of Edmonton 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 $2M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2022, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $50K.
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 87% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Programs that place children referred by childrens services into foster homes and provide support to both the children and the foster family
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $2M | $1.9M | — | — | $616K |
| 2023 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $2M | — | — | $553K |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $2.1M | $2M | — | — | $546K |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $2M | — | — | $579K |
| 2020 | $2.3M | $2.3M | $2.2M | — | — | $540K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2022
Received $50K from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9993 positions
- $1–39,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$502K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
April Grindheim (chairperson); Nick Dawson (vice chairperson); Barry White (treasurer); Baiju Vareed (director); Jamie Churchward (director); Donna Lee (director); Linda Demers (caregiver).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mountain Plains Family Service Society of Edmonton’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 139725428RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.