The Central Alberta Women's Emergency Shelter Society
Publicly funded institution · Red Deer, Alberta · BN 106885437RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,472,605) as filed with the CRA.
The Central Alberta Women's Emergency Shelter Society is a charitable organization based in Red Deer, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. 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 $2.7M in revenue and $2.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 14% from donations, 82% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 23 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $449K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 12% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 35 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Safe refuge for battered women and their children child support program intensive case management volunteer training public education/professional training emotional support safety planning risk assessment
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.7M | $2.5M | $1.9M | $90K | — | $2.5M |
| 2023 | $2.8M | $2.6M | $2.1M | $19K | — | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $3.3M | $2.8M | $2.2M | $64K | — | $2.2M |
| 2021 | $3.5M | $2.7M | $2.3M | $39K | — | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $2.7M | $2.2M | $88K | — | $882K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $449K from 23 charities:
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$100K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$60K
- Fondation Philantra Philantra Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$50K
- Red Deer Twilight Homes Foundation$25K
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada$25K
- The Red Deer Catholic Regional Division #39$23K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$23K
- Community Foundation of Central Alberta$13K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,557
- Community Foundation of Central Alberta$5,500
- Community Foundation of Central Alberta$5,000
- Red Deer Gaetz Memorial United Church$2,217
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$818
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$562
- Charitus$500
- Community Foundation of Central Alberta$491
- United Way of Calgary and Area$373
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$272
- Christian Stewardship Services$100
- Congregation of Notre Dame Visitation Province Inc.—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions35
- Total compensation, all staff$1.8M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Barb King (treasurer); Jerri Taylor (president); Jody Dyrland (secretary); Jennifer Nwachukwu (director); Danica Hoffart (executive director); Rachel Hoole (director); John Mackenzie (director); Jane Proudlove (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Central Alberta Women's Emergency Shelter Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106885437RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.