Unlimited Potential Community Services Society
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 128912359RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($25,414,351) as filed with the CRA.
Unlimited Potential Community Services Society 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $25.8M in revenue and $25.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1,771.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 80% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (5 positions in that band). The charity reported 276 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Unlimated potential services society provides a range of support services for children youth adults and families. The services include: collaborative services for children and families fetal alcohol spectrum disorder services to adults group care services supported independant livingg for children and youth mental health programs for adults foster care programs and education programs for students grade 1 - 12
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $25.8M | $25.4M | $254.1M | $3,458 | — | $4.1M |
| 2023 | $25.3M | $25.2M | $25.2M | $7,030 | — | $3.7M |
| 2022 | $23.8M | $24.7M | $24.7M | $23K | — | $3.6M |
| 2021 | $25.1M | $24.7M | $24.7M | $16K | — | $4.5M |
| 2020 | $24.3M | $23.8M | $23.8M | $50K | — | $4.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1,771 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions276
- Total compensation, all staff$18.3M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alex Kalinowski (director); John Watson (president); Bruce Armson (director); Darcy Petrovic (director); Mike Bowditch (vice president); Vanessa Palamar (treasurer); Katherine King (director); Jodi Dorzda-Murphy (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Unlimited Potential Community Services Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 128912359RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.