The Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
Charitable organization · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 122554488RR0001 · Animal Welfare · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2023-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($5,835,694) as filed with the CRA.
The Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under animal welfare. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2023, it reported $5.9M in revenue and $5.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 27% from donations, 21% from government. In 2024, 31 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $295K.
Compared with 107 animal-welfare charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 94% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 35 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $2,500 in 2024, the largest being $2,500 to University of Alberta. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Provide enforcement and education pertaining to the animal protection act.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2023
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | $5.9M | $5.8M | $5.8M | — | — | $7.7M |
| 2022 | $4.8M | $5.4M | $5.4M | — | — | $7.6M |
| 2021 | $5.2M | $4.8M | $2.7M | $1.3M | — | $6.2M |
| 2020 | $4.8M | $4.7M | $2.4M | $1.2M | — | $8.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2,500 to 1 qualified donee:
- University of Alberta$2,500
Received $295K from 31 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$36K
- Canadahelps Canadon$36K
- Gordon & Diane Buchanan Family Foundation$35K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$35K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$25K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$20K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$18K
- BenefAction Foundation$14K
- The Calgary Foundation$13K
- DR Jocelyn P Mandelstam Foundation$13K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$10K
- Taback Charitable Foundation$7,500
- Aqueduct Foundation$7,000
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$5,000
- Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta$5,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,701
- CN Employees' and Pensioners' Community Fund$2,162
- United Way of Calgary and Area$2,118
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$1,494
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,490
- Kittyhawk Animal Foundation$1,000
- Campbell-Stone United Church (christian Church/disciples of Christ and the United Church of Canada)$600
- My Charity Fund$540
- Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary$500
- Centra Cares Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions35
- Total compensation, all staff$2.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Doug Sawyer (president); Andrea Edwards (vice president); Constance Varnhagen (treasurer/secretary); Duane Landals (past president); Marion Anderson (director); Hedi Klassen (director); Alexandria Burt (director); Teryn Girard (director); Julie Brewster (director); Kristine Rooney (director); Colin Quast (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 122554488RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.