The Calgary Between Friends Club-Fun and Fellowship for Disabled Youth
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119217925RR0001 · Public Amenities · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,432,774) as filed with the CRA.
The Calgary Between Friends Club-Fun and Fellowship for Disabled Youth is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under public amenities. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.5M in revenue and $2.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 29 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $877K.
Compared with 414 public-amenity charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 33% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.2M in 2020 to $2.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Between Friends provides quality social recreation and development opportunities so that people with disabilities can connect grow and belong. Between Friends offers a variety of programs to children youth and adults that reduces the barriers of isolation and function as the building blocks of friendship.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.5M | $2.4M | $1.8M | $309K | $0 | $2.4M |
| 2023 | $2M | $2M | $1.4M | $298K | $0 | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.7M | $1.2M | $276K | $0 | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.4M | $879K | $253K | $0 | $2.4M |
| 2020 | $1.2M | $1M | $591K | $191K | — | $2.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $877K from 29 charities:
- United Way of Calgary and Area$201K
- The Calgary Foundation$110K
- Canadahelps Canadon$91K
- Canadahelps Canadon$91K
- Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund$85K
- Lily Street Foundation$50K
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$40K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$34K
- The Stone Creek Charitable Foundation$30K
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fund$23K
- Allardyce Bower Foundation$21K
- Engineering Little Miracles Foundation$19K
- Olympia Charitable Foundation$10K
- The Burns Memorial Fund for Children$10K
- William S. Herron Family Charitable Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$9,000
- Wolfe Pack Warriors Foundation$7,500
- Calgary Flames Foundation$5,000
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$5,000
- Allard Foundation LTD.$5,000
- R. Howard Webster Foundation$5,000
- Totem Charitable Foundation$5,000
- Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation$3,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$2,766
- The Winnipeg Foundation$1,500
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
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$1.5M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Crispin Arthur (director); Gerald David (director); Peter Drag (director); Bradley Fox (director); Cory Vance (past chair); Naminder Sandhu (chair); Sean Bower (vice chair); Taso Arvanitis (treasurer/secretary); Amber Dunleavy (director); Ian Hendy (director); Rupi Bergamin (director); Alexandra McLeod (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Calgary Between Friends Club-Fun and Fellowship for Disabled Youth’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119217925RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.