Trellis Society for Community Impact
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 106804669RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($38,161,528) as filed with the CRA.
Trellis Society for Community Impact 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 $38.3M in revenue and $38.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 49% from government, 36% from other charities. In 2024, 51 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $14M.
Compared with 147 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 78% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 87% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 355 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1M in 2024, the largest being $1M to Trellis Foundation for Community Impact. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
At Trellis we work with children youth and families to unearth their potential and support their growth. Our programs focus on improving access to resources developing family and community supports and building people’s capacity to deal with life’s challenges. We offer programs and activities at multiple locations with trained dedicated staff and volunteers who support children and youth ranging in age from zero to 24. Some programs offer relationship cultural connection and recreational proramming in the after school evening and summer. Other trauma-informed programs include supports…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $38.3M | $38.2M | $36.5M | $564K | $0 | $3.5M |
| 2023 | $35.2M | $35.2M | $32.5M | $490K | $0 | $3.4M |
| 2022 | $32.2M | $31.7M | $28.8M | $694K | $0 | $3.4M |
| 2021 | $8.8M | $11.2M | $9.9M | $161K | — | $2.9M |
| 2020 | $27.8M | $24.5M | $21.8M | $63K | — | $5.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1M to 1 qualified donee:
Received $14M from 51 charities:
- Calgary Homeless Foundation$6.6M
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1.9M
- The Calgary Foundation$1.7M
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1.6M
- Trellis Foundation for Community Impact$651K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$243K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$200K
- The Toni Kohn-Woodward Foundation$130K
- A Way Home: Working Together to End Youth Homelessness$124K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$89K
- Ember Fund$75K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$67K
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$58K
- Canada Gives$52K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- Aeonian Support for Humanitarian Charities Foundation$50K
- Viewpoint Foundation$50K
- The Read Family Foundation$50K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$37K
- BenefAction Foundation$33K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- Canadahelps Canadon$27K
- The Home Depot Canada Foundation$26K
- Vitality Fund$25K
- Clearwater Charitable Foundation$25K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions355
- Total compensation, all staff$25.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Karleen Batty (board chair); Anil Nayak (board vice chair); Alisa Sorochan (treasurer); Christy Elliott (secretary); Christine Neff (director); Erin Ludwig (director); Gabriel Chen (director); Steven Spaulding (director); Chris Simard (director); Cristi Adams (director); Teri Buckley (director); Rachel Chong (director); Angel Yon (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Trellis Society for Community Impact’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106804669RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.