United Way Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo
Public foundation · Fort McMurray, Alberta · BN 119260495RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,056,325) as filed with the CRA.
United Way Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo is a public foundation based in Fort McMurray, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.8M in revenue and $4.1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from donations. In 2024, 9 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.5M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 23% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 24 qualified donees totalling $2.8M in 2024, the largest being $331K to Pastew Place Detox Centre Society. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $5.3M in 2020 to $2.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
United way fort mcmurray and wood buffalo believes in community impact a movement towards creating meaningful long-term improvements to the quality of life in wood buffalo. Our goal is to improve lives through education social innovation and by engaging our community giving out agencies tools to succeed. We invest back into the community in four areas: strong communities all that kids can be from poverty to possibility and capacity building.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.8M | $4.1M | $17K | $437K | $2.9M | $7.4M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $4.8M | $26K | $540K | $3.4M | $8.4M |
| 2022 | $4.2M | $4.5M | $461K | $518K | $3.1M | $10.5M |
| 2021 | $5.1M | $4.7M | $429K | $593K | $3.1M | $11.6M |
| 2020 | $5.3M | $6.2M | $525K | $301K | $5M | $11.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.8M to 24 qualified donees:
- Pastew Place Detox Centre Society$331K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$300K
- Centre of Hope Non-Profit Society of Fort McMurray$271K
- ST. Aidan's House Society$229K
- Nistawoyou Association Friendship Centre$206K
- Wood Buffalo Wellness Society$182K
- The Hub Family Resource Centre$163K
- The Children's Centre Non Profit Society of FT McMurray$163K
- Local Helicopter Emergency Response Organization Foundation$155K
- Waypoints Community Services Association$135K
- Some Other Solutions Society for Crisis Prevention$128K
- Family Christian Centre (Fort McMurray)$114K
- Support Through Housing Team Society (STHT)$106K
- Multicultural Association of Wood Buffalo$86K
- Autism Society of the Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo$85K
- Fort McMurray Golden Years Society$58K
- Justin Slade Youth Foundation$49K
- Fort McMurray Search & Rescue Society$42K
- The Canadian Mental Health Association Alberta North East Region 1994$15K
- Wood Buffalo Safe/healthy Community Network$9,050
- Kidsport Canada$7,500
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$1,518
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1,518
- Northreach Society$962
Received $1.5M from 9 charities:
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1.1M
- United Way of Calgary and Area$374K
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$56K
- RBC Foundation$25K
- Imperial Oil Employees Charity Trust$17K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$5,000
- United Way of Greater Toronto$4,026
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,670
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$209
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
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$549K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Funky Banjoko (director); Andrea Eldridge (director); Dango Gogo (director); Suman Jafri (director); Jessica Lipton (director); Bob Mackay (director); Nicole Rymes (president); Alex Stark (director); Ijeoma Uche-Ezeala (treasurer); Michelle Velez (2nd vice president); Mike Vickers (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from United Way Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119260495RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.