Renfrew Educational Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 107886129RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($30,474,379) as filed with the CRA.
Renfrew Educational Services Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $32.9M in revenue and $30.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 69% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $250,000–299,999 range. The charity reported 240 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Kindergarten and junior kindergarten programs for severely disabled children along with an elementary grades program for severely disabled children. Various therapy services for children with disabilities are also provided on an outreach basis.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $32.9M | $30.5M | $22.4M | — | — | $16.9M |
| 2023 | $31.3M | $29.6M | $23M | — | — | $14.5M |
| 2022 | $29.9M | $28.3M | $21.6M | — | — | $12.9M |
| 2021 | $31.2M | $28.7M | $22M | — | — | $11.2M |
| 2020 | $29.8M | $29.2M | $21.9M | — | — | $8.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.1M from 17 charities:
- Renfrew Educational Services Foundation$634K
- The Wettstein Family Foundation$100K
- The Kaiser Charitable Foundation (2011)$100K
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$63K
- The Calgary Fetal Alcohol Network: An Alberta Story$28K
- Broadfoot Family Foundation$25K
- The Calgary Foundation$21K
- Hunter Family Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- Three Sisters Charitable Foundation$12K
- The Bernie and Jan McCaffery Foundation$12K
- BenefAction Foundation$10K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$8,968
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,716
- ATCO Electric Epic$500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$389
- Canadahelps Canadon$187
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $250,000–299,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9994 positions
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions240
- Total compensation, all staff$25.6M
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 Renfrew Educational Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107886129RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.