Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society
Charitable organization · Airdrie, Alberta · BN 800759417RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-02-28. Split of total expenditures ($250,859) as filed with the CRA.
Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society is a charitable organization based in Airdrie, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending February 28, 2024, it reported $322K in revenue and $251K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 56% from donations, 43% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $175K.
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 23% of peers. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Accumulating items through donations to fill backpacks with school supplies toiletries toys and shoes for children in need. Donations to mustard seed to assist with furnishing a home for a family living in a shelter.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $322K | $251K | $179K | $11K | — | $254K |
| 2023 | $336K | $339K | $257K | $13K | — | $183K |
| 2022 | $292K | $273K | $120K | $16K | — | $171K |
| 2021 | $351K | $302K | $166K | $6,137 | — | $153K |
| 2020 | $380K | $374K | $228K | $17K | — | $64K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $175K from 12 charities:
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$55K
- Olympia Charitable Foundation$40K
- The Tenaquip Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$11K
- Honda Canada Foundation$10K
- Ames Family Foundation$10K
- KSBK Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$8,420
- The Jules Foundation$5,000
- The Foundation Office.ca$5,000
- William S. Herron Family Charitable Foundation$5,000
- The Alberta Knights of Columbus Charitable Foundation$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$48K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Stephen David James McPhee (president); Nancy McPhee (executive director); Angelica Bennett (project coordinator/secretary); Breanne Pyle (director of social media/volun); Barb Goulet (director of marketing and grap); Lisa Foster (director of inventory control); Roger Foster (director statistics and adviso); Angela Foster (director of hospitality); Art Dowell (director of social media); Jeff Dyck (director of the a-team).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 800759417RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.