Safelink Alberta Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 106689813RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,603,169) as filed with the CRA.
Safelink Alberta Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under core health care. 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 $2.7M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 87% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $83K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 47% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 34 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $5,000 in 2024, the largest being $5,000 to Maggie's: Toronto Sex Workers Action Project.
In its own words
Safelink alberta society (the 'society') is a non-profit organization that works to reduce the harms associated with sexual activity and substance use with a focus on prevention of sexuallytransmitted and blood borne infections such as hiv and hepatitis.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $2.6M | $2.3M | $79K | $5,000 | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $2.3M | $2.3M | $2M | $128K | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $2M | $1.7M | $121K | — | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $2.1M | $54K | — | $1M |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $2.6M | $2.1M | $88K | — | $937K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $5,000 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $83K from 11 charities:
- RBC Foundation$25K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Calgary Homeless Foundation$6,000
- The Calgary Foundation$4,517
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$3,018
- Vancouver Foundation$2,700
- United Way of Greater Toronto$1,875
- Olympia Charitable Foundation$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$653
- ATCO Electric Epic$520
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
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions34
- Total compensation, all staff$2M
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 Safelink Alberta Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106689813RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.