Southern Alberta Sports Equipment Bank Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 841004583RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($407,145) as filed with the CRA.
Southern Alberta Sports Equipment Bank Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $496K in revenue and $407K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 17% from donations, 61% from government, 22% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $173K.
Compared with 1,890 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 6% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $266K in 2020 to $496K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Our organization collects gently used and new sports equipment that is then sorted cleaned and repaired as needed so it can be distributed of charge to qualified ( low income ) kids in southern alberta.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $496K | $407K | $188K | $102K | — | $161K |
| 2023 | $255K | $308K | $288K | $2,362 | — | $72K |
| 2022 | $346K | $307K | $159K | $55K | — | $77K |
| 2021 | $230K | $316K | — | $179K | — | $64K |
| 2020 | $266K | $260K | $159K | $1,575 | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $173K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$141K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chris Protti (director); Travis Rhine (director); Drake Jody (director); Kevin Kobelka (director); Josh Crittenden (director); Jeremy Gackle (director); Angela Thompson (director); Bronwyn Inkster (director); Carlo Brunneau (director); Mike Geddes (director); Imran Gulam (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Southern Alberta Sports Equipment Bank Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 841004583RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.