The Canlearn Society for Persons With Learning Difficulties
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 134023852RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,930,473) as filed with the CRA.
The Canlearn Society for Persons With Learning Difficulties is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 August 31, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 43% from government. In 2024, 13 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $456K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 22% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 10 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
CanLearn serves children youth and adults with learning and attention difficulties by providing programs and services related to literacy learning attention and related mental health conditions mental health programs
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $1.9M | $1.5M | $5,667 | — | $1.4M |
| 2023 | $2M | $1.9M | $1.5M | $16K | — | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $1.8M | $1.4M | $17K | — | $1.1M |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $1.7M | $1.2M | $4,270 | $0 | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $1.3M | — | $0 | $939K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $456K from 13 charities:
- Calgary Learns Association$317K
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$55K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$25K
- The Burns Memorial Fund for Children$15K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- The Calgary Foundation$13K
- Community Service Fund$10K
- The Philip Smith Foundation$2,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1,984
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$918
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$746
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$304
- Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary$100
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
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions10
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Deanna Shymkiw Yeo (director); Amanda Calleberg (director); Katharine Schutz (director); Martha Nystrom (treasurer); Rachel Meilleur (director); Yang (Christy) Liu (director); Christine Bye (director); Maria Robin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Canlearn Society for Persons With Learning Difficulties’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 134023852RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.