Royal Canadian Legion Branch Poppy Fund
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 106830961RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($315,078) as filed with the CRA.
Royal Canadian Legion Branch Poppy Fund is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $315K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from donations. In 2024, 32 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $195K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 0% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 79% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $4,000 in 2024, the largest being $4,000 to Calgary Military Family Resource Centre/centre de Ressource S pour les Familles des Militaires. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The organization raises funds through the annual 'poppy campaign' to enable it to provide financial and non-financial assistance to veterans and their dependents.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $315K | $4,000 | $206K | — | $5.3M |
| 2023 | $1M | $239K | $25K | $108K | $76K | $3.8M |
| 2022 | $973K | $520K | $94K | $43K | — | $3.1M |
| 2021 | $894K | $1.1M | $28K | — | — | $2.7M |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $891K | $24K | — | — | $2.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4,000 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $195K from 32 charities:
- Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund$50K
- The Calgary Foundation$46K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Canadahelps Canadon$24K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$22K
- Rotary Club of Calgary North Foundation$6,730
- The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division$4,129
- Chinook Foundation$4,000
- Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund$3,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$2,489
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$2,370
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,025
- Wildrose Polio Support Society$1,000
- Viewpoint Foundation$1,000
- Abundance Canada$600
- West Island College Society of Alberta$500
- The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees Foundation$500
- Prime Quadrant Foundation$300
- Mountain View Academy Society$250
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$217
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$214
- The Royal Canadian Dental Corps Association$200
- Christian City Church North Calgary$150
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$124
- Castlegar & District Hospital Auxiliary Society$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Marilyn Bushell (director); Sharon Doucet (director); Brian Grewcutt (director); Kent Griffiths (director); Lois Kohlsmith (director); Philip Macaulay (director); David Purdy (chair); Diana Ratcliffe (director); Carol Robinson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Royal Canadian Legion Branch Poppy Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106830961RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.