Niitoiyis Family Support Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 139571863RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,530,021) as filed with the CRA.
Niitoiyis Family Support Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, 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 $3.9M in revenue and $3.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 80% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $313K.
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 96% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 29 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Mcss shelter violence prevention outreash frn ahc iamw grant city of calgary fcss program status of women canada program and other programs for the indigenous people in calgary. The objectives of the society is to establish a broad continuum of support services guided by aboriginal traditional teachings that include prevention intervention and healing to anyone affected by any form of abuse.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.9M | $3.5M | $3.5M | — | — | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $4.1M | $3.9M | $3.6M | — | — | $1.7M |
| 2022 | $3.9M | $3.6M | $3.4M | — | — | $1.5M |
| 2021 | $3.6M | $3.2M | $3.1M | — | — | $1.1M |
| 2020 | $3.3M | $3.2M | $3M | — | — | $893K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $313K from 16 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$71K
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$35K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$34K
- Women's Shelters Canada$25K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$25K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$3,000
- Unifor Social Justice Fund/Le fonds de justice sociale d'Unifor$2,365
- ATCO Electric Epic$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$668
- United Way of Calgary and Area$488
- The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division$330
- Faith Food Bank Society—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,99925 positions
- Permanent full-time positions29
- Total compensation, all staff$2.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Victoria Sedgwick (president); Colleen Waskewitch Runner (vice-president); Teri Matula (treasurer); Anett Chicomny Pon (secretary); Robert Vander Wees (director); Carolyn Woodroffe (acting executive director); Sheila Rae (interm director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Niitoiyis Family Support Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 139571863RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.