Stepping Stones Crisis Society
Publicly funded institution · Cold Lake, Alberta · BN 108080029RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,037,387) as filed with the CRA.
Stepping Stones Crisis Society is a charitable organization based in Cold Lake, 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $3M in revenue and $3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 10% from donations, 65% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $13K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 43 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Operations of crisis shelter for battered and abused women and their children. Along with the shelter the society operates a 24 hour crisis phone line a thrift shop and used goods consigment store. Transitional housing for long -term care of battered and abused women and their children needing a place to live and assist them on moving forward and being independent.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3M | $3M | $2.6M | — | — | $4.3M |
| 2023 | $3.7M | $3.1M | $2.7M | — | — | $4.4M |
| 2022 | $3.4M | $2.8M | $2.7M | — | — | $4.1M |
| 2021 | $3.6M | $2.4M | $2.1M | — | — | $3.4M |
| 2020 | $2.7M | $2.4M | $2.1M | — | — | $3.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $13K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions43
- Total compensation, all staff$2.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Emily Alsop (president); Leona Kolbinson (treasurer); Cathy Orr (secretary); Joely Patrick (director); Rhonda Squire (director); Armand Gagnier (director); Torie Procinsky (director); Ryan Howrish (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Stepping Stones Crisis Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108080029RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.