Second Chance Animal Rescue Society
Charitable organization · Athabasca, Alberta · BN 863478467RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,148,861) as filed with the CRA.
Second Chance Animal Rescue Society is a charitable organization based in Athabasca, Alberta, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.3M in revenue and $3.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from donations. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.8M.
Compared with 112 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 24 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Provide veterinary care & foster homes for homeless and abandoned animals. Foster homes provide warm shelter food exercise and love until animals can be adopted. Ensure the public learns to become responsible pet owners and the importance of spaying and neutering their pets.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.3M | $3.1M | $3M | $105K | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $2.7M | $2.8M | $2.7M | $100K | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $2.1M | $2.1M | — | — | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $2M | $2M | — | — | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $1.5M | — | — | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.8M from 29 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$738K
- Canadahelps Canadon$738K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$95K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$74K
- Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation$16K
- ATCO Electric Epic$16K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$12K
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$9,429
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$8,827
- Help a Buddy Fund$8,251
- Angela and Collin Herbers Family Charitable Foundation$7,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$6,323
- Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society$6,000
- Gordon & Diane Buchanan Family Foundation$6,000
- Petsmart Charities of Canada$3,250
- C.o.l.d. Respiratory Problems Club$3,125
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$2,953
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$2,500
- Beatrice Stevens Memorial Foundation Inc.$2,000
- Four Feet Companion Foundation$1,500
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$1,300
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1,221
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,150
- Abundance Canada$1,000
- Cam & Dawn Allard Family Foundation$1,000
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
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions24
- Total compensation, all staff$688K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lorraine Spreadbury (chair); Jack Wang (treasurer); Michael Cunnington (secretary); Sylvia Christiansen (ed); Lori Trudgeon (director); Lori Haughian (vice chair); Lynne Chaston-Harrison (director); Christy Ciezki (director); Sarah Mullaly (director); John Evans (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Second Chance Animal Rescue Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863478467RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.