Mountain View Emergency Shelter Society
Charitable organization · Olds, Alberta · BN 815174891RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($153,810) as filed with the CRA.
Mountain View Emergency Shelter Society is a charitable organization based in Olds, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $921K in revenue and $154K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 74% from donations, 13% from government, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $198K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 3% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 89% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $117K in 2020 to $921K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Outreach services to all people affected by domestic violence including courses designed to give attendees tools to help individuals who have dealt with trauma and abuse gain insight self-worth and understand the cycle of abuse. Building an emergency shelter facility - to be in operation by 2025.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $921K | $154K | $17K | $2,722 | — | $1.7M |
| 2023 | $759K | $140K | $108K | $6,695 | $0 | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $186K | $113K | $86K | — | $0 | $0 |
| 2021 | $110K | $90K | $80K | — | $0 | $239K |
| 2020 | $117K | $63K | $52K | — | — | $219K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $198K from 12 charities:
- Aeonian Support for Humanitarian Charities Foundation$100K
- The Greene Family Charitable Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$26K
- The Calgary Foundation$5,855
- B. Stefanich Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$3,168
- The Western Communities Foundation$2,466
- Fondation RONA$2,360
- Home Church - Red Deer Alberta$1,151
- Canadahelps Canadon$980
- Didsbury Pastoral Charge Knox United Church$500
- Canada Gives$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$97K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joe Carignan (director/past president); Robert Phillips (director/board member); Russell Pouliotte (director/board member); Dale Rosehill (director/board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Mountain View Emergency Shelter Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 815174891RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.