The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary an Alberta Society
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 106914534RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($7,244,211) as filed with the CRA.
The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary an Alberta Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $10.7M in revenue and $7.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 28% from donations, 36% from government, 28% from other charities. In 2024, 49 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $4.4M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 19% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 65 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary aims to prevent harm and neglect to all children and to build strong families through support services respite programs and a crisis nursery in and around Calgary. The programs offered by the Society are discussed below: The Crisis Nursery provides 24 hour / 365 day emergency care for newborns to children eight years of age for stays of up to 72 hours. Isolated families who require support in caring for their children during times of stress may come to the Society’s Crisis Nursery for help. The Nurturing Newborns Program provides respite and resource…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.7M | $7.2M | $5.6M | $508K | — | $20.5M |
| 2023 | $12.7M | $7.1M | $5.7M | $280K | — | $16.9M |
| 2022 | $7.6M | $6.8M | $6M | $253K | — | $10M |
| 2021 | $7.6M | $6.9M | $6.2M | $304K | — | $5.4M |
| 2020 | $7.3M | $7.2M | $6.3M | $438K | — | $4.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $4.4M from 49 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$1.4M
- EJO Trust$1M
- Calgary Homeless Foundation$703K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$368K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$216K
- BenefAction Foundation$67K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$57K
- Canadahelps Canadon$51K
- Canadahelps Canadon$51K
- Hunter Family Foundation$50K
- P.E.A.R.L. Foundation$50K
- Kanovsky Family Foundation$50K
- Aeonian Support for Humanitarian Charities Foundation$50K
- CKLAS Foundation$40K
- Abundance Canada$40K
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$30K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$25K
- Calgary CO-Op Community Foundation$25K
- Vitality Fund$25K
- The Donald And Eleanor Seaman Family Foundation$20K
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$15K
- Cannonball Foundation$13K
- The Scotlyn Foundation$10K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$10K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$6,975
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9998 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions65
- Total compensation, all staff$5.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Janice Heard (past president); Travis Robertson (2nd vice-president); Tracy Baker (1st vice president); Dinesh Dattani (treasurer); Brad Hayden (president); Pat MacDonald (director); Candice Jones (director); Dean Slater (director); Elica Lee (director); Anna Premyslova (director); Peter Steenaerts (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary an Alberta Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106914534RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.