Wainwright Military Family Resource Centre
Publicly funded institution · Denwood, Alberta · BN 898279682RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,017,389) as filed with the CRA.
Wainwright Military Family Resource Centre is a charitable organization based in Denwood, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $1.1M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $316.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 5% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 75% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 14 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The wainwright military family resource centre provides services and programs to promote and facilitate community based military family services that strengthen canadian armed forces families and communities. This is done by providing an individualized targeted approach meaning services are specific to each individuals family. The wmfrc hosts mental health and personal development workshops community events integration and deployment services information and referral and child care. The goal of the wmfrc is to support our families by ensuring they have the resources needed to be confident…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1M | $589K | $2,793 | — | $1.3M |
| 2023 | $1M | $968K | — | — | — | $766K |
| 2022 | $906K | $865K | — | — | — | $701K |
| 2021 | $807K | $810K | — | — | — | $660K |
| 2020 | $1M | $957K | $745K | $0 | $0 | $664K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $316 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions14
- Total compensation, all staff$857K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jamie Allward (acting chair); Brianna Allward (secretary); Shauna O'Dell (director); Haley Norman (director); Shauna Churney (director); Michelle Hart (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wainwright Military Family Resource Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898279682RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.