Terra Centre for Teen Parents
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 119210417RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,283,419) as filed with the CRA.
Terra Centre for Teen Parents is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, 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 $5.2M in revenue and $5.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 61% from government, 9% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $602K.
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 18% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 66 permanent full-time positions.
In its own words
Terra centre provides programs + support services for pregnant + parenting teens. Programs include outreach parenting support for young moms + dads in their homes + community; housing support services; in school support + early learning + child care services; admin of the smp finanical program for students attending the partner school; post high school transition support; mental health support + therapy youth leadership + community teen pregnancy prevention services early + family literacy prenantal parenting health nutrition breastfeeding + family groups access to donated clothing fo…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.2M | $5.3M | $4.2M | $300K | — | $3.2M |
| 2023 | $5.2M | $5.2M | $3.9M | $238K | — | — |
| 2022 | $4.3M | $4.7M | $3.6M | $351K | — | $3.3M |
| 2021 | $4.7M | $4.6M | $3.7M | $151K | — | $2.7M |
| 2020 | $5M | $4.7M | $3.8M | $150K | — | $1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $602K from 28 charities:
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$181K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$66K
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$56K
- The Legion of Frontiersmen of the Commonwealth in Canada$50K
- Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation$43K
- J.hokanson Family Charitable Foundation$40K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- RBC Foundation$20K
- Edmonton Realtors' Charitable Foundation$15K
- Rotary District 5370 Charitable Foundation$13K
- A Dollar A Day Foundation$10K
- Eberlein Family Charitable Foundation$5,000
- BenefAction Foundation$5,000
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$5,000
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$2,762
- Smith Family Foundation$2,500
- ATCO Electric Epic$1,240
- Lions Club of Edmonton Foundation$1,000
- The Kiwanis Club of South Edmonton Charitable Foundation$1,000
- Polish Canadian Humanitarian Society$1,000
- North Pointe Community Church$695
- David's Melody Ministries Edmonton$215
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions66
- Total compensation, all staff$3.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Terra Centre for Teen Parents’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119210417RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.