The Boyle Street Service Society
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 118814391RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($33,310,017) as filed with the CRA.
The Boyle Street Service Society is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $32.8M in revenue and $33.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 70% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 30 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.2M.
Compared with 115 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 282 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $6.5M in 2020 to $32.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Boyle street service society provide the following services: 1) housing first- assists in placing individuals and families in affordable accomodations. 2) street outreach- helps people meet immediate needs such as food warm clothing and first aid. 3) drop- in center- where community members come to connect and where the broader community comes to help. 4) adult outreach- helps people identify their goals understand barriers and develop actions plans. 5) youth services- help youth to develop a way to address immediate needs and begin to identify long-term goals. 6) family support- …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $32.8M | $33.3M | $31.9M | — | — | $851K |
| 2023 | $32M | $31.9M | $30.6M | — | — | $9M |
| 2022 | $37.4M | $35.4M | $34.4M | — | — | $8.9M |
| 2021 | $38.7M | $36.8M | $35.8M | — | — | $3.9M |
| 2020 | $6.5M | $6.3M | $6.1M | — | — | $2.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.2M from 30 charities:
- The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation$288K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$286K
- Canadahelps Canadon$147K
- Canadahelps Canadon$147K
- The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in Canada$100K
- The Stollery Charitable Foundation$75K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$28K
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$27K
- Four M Charitable Foundation$25K
- J.hokanson Family Charitable Foundation$25K
- BenefAction Foundation$12K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- Cam & Dawn Allard Family Foundation$10K
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$10K
- John Maude and Susan Quinn Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Fairway Legacy Foundation$5,000
- Qube Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue$5,000
- The KPMG Foundation/la Fondation KPMG$4,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$3,091
- Makeway Foundation$2,500
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$2,000
- Fondation RONA$1,551
- Homeless Cars$1,330
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,264
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9993 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions282
- Total compensation, all staff$23.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Greg Bott (past chair); John Pinsent (treasurer); Gloria Chalmers (director & member); Jason Kully (vice chair); Vicki Shaughnessy (secretary); Diana Ly (chair); Bob Philip (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Boyle Street Service Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118814391RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.