The Calgary John Howard Society
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 107542441RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,657,292) as filed with the CRA.
The Calgary John Howard Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.6M in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 36% from government. In 2024, 19 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.3M.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 59% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 100 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $8.1M in 2020 to $2.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Operation of community residential facilities (two - 1 women's & 1 men's) operation of youth residential facilities - for at-risk youth scattered site housing programs for youth and adult literacy programs for adults - including basic digital & financial community case management for immigrants at risk employment readiness programs for adults and youth fetal alcohol syndrome disorder - programming and support youth advocacy- including programming specific to indigenous youth and immigrant youth indigenous youth mentorship program prison visitation/community engagement for recently r…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.6M | $2.7M | $2.3M | — | — | $5.4M |
| 2023 | $9.2M | $9.2M | $8.2M | $1,563 | — | $5.4M |
| 2022 | $9M | $8.8M | $7.9M | $0 | $0 | $5.4M |
| 2021 | $8.7M | $8.5M | $7.6M | $1,563 | — | $5.2M |
| 2020 | $8.1M | $7.5M | $6.6M | $443 | — | $5.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4.3M from 19 charities:
- Calgary Homeless Foundation$3.3M
- United Way of Calgary and Area$343K
- The Calgary Fetal Alcohol Network: An Alberta Story$226K
- Calgary Learns Association$186K
- The Calgary Foundation$91K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$32K
- Trico Charitable Foundation$25K
- Community Foundations of Canada$17K
- The Burns Memorial Fund for Children$15K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$10K
- Glasswaters Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$6,045
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$5,000
- Abundance Canada$3,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$3,144
- Canadahelps Canadon$2,687
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$2,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,100
- Faith Food Bank Society—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- $1–39,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions100
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Monetta Bailey (director); Ashna Harjai (treasurer); Roger Jaswal (secretary); Alex Laidlaw (chair); Leslie McMechan (director); Robert Nichols (director); Justin Smith (director); Jeremy Yule (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Calgary John Howard Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 107542441RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.