Simon House Residence Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119150589RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,542,399) as filed with the CRA.
Simon House Residence 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $3.6M in revenue and $3.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 74% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $305K.
Compared with 717 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 29 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.7M in 2020 to $3.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Simon house is a residential addiction treatment facility. Core treatment is 84 days and there is capacity of 67 beds.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.6M | $3.5M | $3M | $187K | — | $3M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $3.1M | $1.7M | $18K | — | $2.9M |
| 2022 | $3M | $2.9M | $2.5M | $51K | — | $2.9M |
| 2021 | $2.1M | $2M | $1.8M | $6,295 | — | $2.7M |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $11K | — | $2.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $305K from 15 charities:
- Boardwalk Charitable Trust Fund$100K
- Canadahelps Canadon$54K
- Canadahelps Canadon$54K
- William S. Herron Family Charitable Foundation$30K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$25K
- The Calgary Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$12K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$11K
- BenefAction Foundation$1,200
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1,155
- Abundance Canada$1,000
- The Arthur H. and Margaret E. Baker Foundation$1,000
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$73
- Faith Food Bank Society—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions29
- Total compensation, all staff$2.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Cullen (director); Susan Boon (director); Nav Shergill (chair); Andy Crooks (honorary lifetime member); Gael Macleod (director); Sean McIntyre (vice chair); Rame Katrib (director); Craig McIvor (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Simon House Residence Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119150589RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.