The Society for Selections: a Career Support Service
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 129778353RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($1,923,148) as filed with the CRA.
The Society for Selections: a Career Support Service is a charitable organization based in Edmonton, 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 June 30, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $1.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 97% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $327.
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 7% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 18 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $629K in 2020 to $1.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Persons with developmental disabilities (pdd) the society for selections provides services under contract with the government of alberta for the purpose of working with adults with developmental disabilities to assist them in being included in community life and be independent as possible. Skills trades awareness and readiness program (grit) the society and government of canada have entered into a funding agreement for the purpose of supporting programs related to the government of canada skilled trades awarenessand readiness program willing ready and determined (4wrd) the society a…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $1.9M | $1.3M | — | — | $281K |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $1.2M | $2,501 | — | $569K |
| 2022 | $863K | $825K | $678K | — | — | $504K |
| 2021 | $573K | $497K | $389K | — | — | $466K |
| 2020 | $629K | $589K | $472K | — | — | $390K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $327 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9999 positions
- Permanent full-time positions18
- Total compensation, all staff$1.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rob Dykes (treasurer); Tacey Murphy (director); Dale Peterson (chair); Maria Savidov (secretary); Tiffany Schell (vice chair); Greig Smith (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Society for Selections: a Career Support Service’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129778353RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.