The Sign of Hope Society Archdiocese of Edmonton
Public foundation · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 889625349RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,146,040) as filed with the CRA.
The Sign of Hope Society Archdiocese of Edmonton is a public foundation based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing religion. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $3.6M in revenue and $3.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from donations, 24% from other charities. In 2024, 31 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.9M.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 43% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 87% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $2.7M in 2024, the largest being $2.7M to Catholic Social Services. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Raising funds for social service programs offered by catholic social services a registered canadian charity.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.6M | $3.1M | — | $390K | $2.7M | $2.8M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $3.1M | — | $547K | $2.5M | $2.3M |
| 2022 | $2.9M | $2.6M | — | $547K | $2.1M | $2.3M |
| 2021 | $3.3M | $2.8M | — | $606K | $2.2M | $2M |
| 2020 | $2.5M | $3.7M | — | $752K | $2.9M | $1.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.7M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $1.9M from 31 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$518K
- Canadahelps Canadon$518K
- The Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton$327K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$295K
- Fairway Legacy Foundation$95K
- Cam & Dawn Allard Family Foundation$35K
- Rotary Club of Edmonton Community Services Trust Fund$25K
- Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambéry Corporation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$18K
- Melton Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$14K
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$11K
- Allard Foundation LTD.$10K
- Ross Ulmer Family Foundation$10K
- Catholic Family Ministries$7,500
- Jackie Pennock Family Foundation$5,000
- The John and Dianne Storey Family Foundation$5,000
- Appleyard Foundation$3,500
- Westlock Community Thrift Shop$3,100
- Oeuvres Caritatives des Filles de Jesus Canada$3,000
- Kingdom Church of St. Albert$2,500
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,494
- Carmelite Nuns of Western Canada$1,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$821
- Westlock Community Thrift Shop$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carole Anctil-Michalyshyn (director); Sett Policicchio (chair); Joseph Spelliscy (vice chair); Rebecca Kallal (director); Patrick Baska (archbishop's representative); Meghan Deroo McConnan (treasurer); Henry Effron (secretary); Tim Yeh (director); Graham Hicks (director); Rym Khawam (director); Ken Mark (director); Patricia Hinds (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Sign of Hope Society Archdiocese of Edmonton’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 889625349RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.