Wellspring Alberta
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 809013675RR0001 · Supportive Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,472,789) as filed with the CRA.
Wellspring Alberta is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under supportive health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.7M in revenue and $4.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations, 17% from other charities. In 2024, 43 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $965K.
Compared with 453 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 45% of peers. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (9 positions in that band). The charity reported 32 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $30K in 2024, the largest being $30K to Firefighters Assistance Charitable Society.
In its own words
Cancer support programs and resources for individuals living with cancer and their caregivers. Programs include: education (return to work brain fog healing journey); exercise (exercise and education tai chi qigong pole walking): speakers house music; expressive arts (writing visual music); peer support; food and nutrition; family friendly and music programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.7M | $4.5M | $3.4M | $514K | — | $19.4M |
| 2023 | $5.2M | $4.3M | $3.3M | $496K | — | $18.1M |
| 2022 | $2.7M | $4.1M | $3M | $364K | — | $17.2M |
| 2021 | $4.1M | $2.8M | $2.1M | $326K | — | $16.8M |
| 2020 | $5.3M | $2.4M | $1.7M | $302K | — | $15.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $30K to 1 qualified donee:
- Firefighters Assistance Charitable Society$30K
Received $965K from 43 charities:
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$225K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$159K
- The Palmer Family Foundation$75K
- Norris Family Foundation$50K
- Medicine Hat and District Health Foundation$48K
- The AIMCo Foundation for Financial Education$45K
- The Calgary Foundation$45K
- The Stollery Charitable Foundation$34K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$32K
- The Terry & Marion Poole Foundation$30K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- Canadahelps Canadon$23K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Totem Charitable Foundation$16K
- Community Foundation of Medicine Hat and Southeastern Alberta$15K
- Berkhold Family Foundation$15K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$14K
- BenefAction Foundation$14K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$13K
- The Hotchkiss Family Foundation$10K
- Canada Gives$8,500
- Northwestern Alberta Foundation$5,845
- Abundance Canada$5,000
- The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation$5,000
- Kanovsky Family Foundation$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9999 positions
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions32
- Total compensation, all staff$2.4M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wellspring Alberta’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 809013675RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.