Soup Sisters and Broth Brothers Society
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 828276915RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($148,430) as filed with the CRA.
Soup Sisters and Broth Brothers Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $171K in revenue and $148K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $44K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 17% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $339K in 2020 to $171K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Soup Production Revenue: Soup Sisters Soup Bank produces soup large scale at a food safe commercial production facility. It is then distributed at cost or donated to shelters and agencies. Soup-making events: The events are designed for small groups of 12-30 people to make a pot of fresh soup with a chef at a certified kitchen and it is then donated the next day to an emergency shelter or social agency.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $171K | $148K | $94K | — | — | $155K |
| 2023 | $109K | — | — | — | — | $132K |
| 2022 | $237K | $246K | — | — | — | $236K |
| 2021 | $304K | $245K | — | — | — | $245K |
| 2020 | $339K | — | — | — | — | $185K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $44K from 11 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$13K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$10K
- The Calgary Foundation$3,000
- Urban Systems Foundation$2,687
- BenefAction Foundation$2,008
- Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,000
- Abundance Canada$500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$500
- Canadahelps Canadon$230
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$17K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Therese Groner (secretary/treasurer); Gordon Hoffman (director/trustee); Robyn Joffe (director/trustee); Peta Glezerson (director/trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Soup Sisters and Broth Brothers Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 828276915RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.