The Back Door a Youth Employment Society
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 131401226RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($666,073) as filed with the CRA.
The Back Door a Youth Employment Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $1.2M in revenue and $666K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from donations, 9% from government, 16% from other charities. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $361K.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $40,000–79,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $429K in 2020 to $1.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
We help long-term street youth move their lives out of the culture street by way of a 'critical path planning' process. They are provided with a two year commitment and each participant plans their own individual and self-determined steps towards employable and sustainable patters of independence. We help community learn what getting off the street is really about. Community volunteers help by listening to the youth believing in them their chosen steps off the street and sharing their own understanding of mainstream living.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.2M | $666K | $581K | $9,983 | — | $850K |
| 2023 | $562K | $597K | $502K | $21K | — | $335K |
| 2022 | $552K | $527K | $455K | $8,555 | — | $370K |
| 2021 | $603K | $466K | — | $16K | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $429K | $450K | $313K | $60K | — | $256K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $361K from 18 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$82K
- Bearspaw Benevolent Foundation$75K
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$55K
- Ptarmigan Charitable Foundation$25K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$18K
- Werklund Foundation$17K
- RBC Foundation$15K
- Glasswaters Foundation$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$14K
- Gatzsch Family Foundation$12K
- Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,546
- The Greene Family Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Totem Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Rotary Club of Calgary Sarcee$4,000
- Chinook Foundation$2,500
- Maunders McNeil Foundation Inc.$1,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$48
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$220K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Athena Pulzoni (chair /vice chair); Kim Bourque (secretary); Annelies Calnant (treasurer); Wendy Oddie (director); Florentius Visser (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Back Door a Youth Employment Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 131401226RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.