Red Deer Native Friendship Society
Publicly funded institution · Red Deer, Alberta · BN 119112472RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,985,682) as filed with the CRA.
Red Deer Native Friendship Society is a charitable organization based in Red Deer, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $2.9M in revenue and $3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 56% from government, 23% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 10 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $109K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 63% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 29 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $2.9M in 2024.
In its own words
Society promotes cultures and activities in the community for mainly aboriginal people and offers counselling and referral services for housing employment and addition treatment as well as child welfare and education programs. Covid 19 support.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.9M | $3M | $2.7M | $68K | — | $677K |
| 2023 | $2.6M | $2.9M | $2.4M | $55K | — | $73K |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $3M | $2.8M | $11K | — | $358K |
| 2021 | $2.8M | $2.4M | $2.3M | $4,464 | — | $396K |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.7M | $1.6M | $64K | — | -$19K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $109K from 10 charities:
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$61K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$25K
- Community Foundation of Central Alberta$10K
- Community Foundation of Central Alberta$5,000
- Arbor Memorial Foundation$3,500
- Red Deer Food Bank Society$2,578
- Vancouver Foundation$1,350
- Red Deer Gaetz Memorial United Church$500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$365
- Canadahelps Canadon$240
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions29
- Total compensation, all staff$1.9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Red Deer Native Friendship Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119112472RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.