Shelter Canada
Charitable organization · Airdrie, Alberta · BN 708381512RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($15,000) as filed with the CRA.
Shelter Canada is a charitable organization based in Airdrie, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1M in revenue and $15K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from other charities. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $5.5M.
Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Building houses for the needy in El Salvador. Day-to-day financial activity goes through The Great Commission Foundation.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1M | $15K | — | — | — | $985K |
| 2023 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2022 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2021 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 2020 | — | — | — | — | — | — |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $5.5M from 15 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$2.1M
- Canadahelps Canadon$2.1M
- The Great Commission Foundation$1M
- Maitland River Community Church$153K
- Sarnia Missionary Church$16K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$15K
- Venue Church Mountain View$9,870
- The Leader Alliance Church$8,500
- Heartland Alliance Church of the Christian and Missionary Alliance$5,673
- Tamara Foundation$5,000
- Rotary Club of Calgary North Foundation$3,800
- Kelowna Trinity Baptist Church$3,555
- Flin Flon Alliance Church Inc.$1,500
- Manitou Evangelical Free Church$1,350
- The Hanson Foundation$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dustin Ressler (chair); Jeffery McElheran (treasurer); Kristi-Anne Finlay (secretary); Claus Sitzler (board member); Francisco Javier Hernandez Saucedo (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Shelter Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 708381512RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.