Rowan House Society
Publicly funded institution · High River, Alberta · BN 899496707RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,556,233) as filed with the CRA.
Rowan House Society is a charitable organization based in High River, 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 $2.6M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations, 60% from government, 13% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $390K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 23 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Emergency shelter- emergency / crisis shelter operations for 24 bed capacity housing 24 women and children leaving abusive situations. Outreach program – outreach programming to individuals in the community children’s program - children’s program for children affected by domestic abuse 24-hour support line preventative education – preventative education to community individuals including school-aged children court support program
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $2.6M | $2.2M | $226K | — | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.8M | $2.3M | $271K | — | $2M |
| 2022 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $2M | $250K | — | $2.2M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $2M | $1.8M | $117K | — | $2.1M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $1.9M | $1.7M | $120K | — | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $390K from 23 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$103K
- The Greene Family Charitable Foundation$60K
- Canada Gives$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- Canadahelps Canadon$31K
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- Fraser Family Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$12K
- The Qr77/westin Hotel Calgary Children's Foundation$10K
- Spruce Meadows Leg Up Foundation$5,000
- Vancouver Foundation$2,700
- Okotoks Pastoral Charge$2,520
- Lily Street Foundation$2,500
- Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue$1,152
- BenefAction Foundation$1,100
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$510
- ST Paul's Anglican Church$500
- Troop Impact Foundation—
- Troop Impact Foundation—
- Troop Impact Foundation—
- Troop Impact Foundation—
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions23
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephanie Bonter (director); Elizabeth Burton (director); Stacey Christianson (secretary); Sarah Ruffle (treasurer); Corry Poole (interim chair); Chris Tulloch (chair); Laura Dickson (director); Kristi Beunder (vice chair); Marina Jagbandhansing (director); Linette Soldan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Rowan House Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 899496707RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.