Wood's Homes
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 835762501RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($43,045,648) as filed with the CRA.
Wood's Homes is a charitable organization based in Calgary, 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 $42.9M in revenue and $43M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.5M.
Compared with 427 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 41% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $200,000–249,999 range. The charity reported 400 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 13 names.
In its own words
Intensive residential programs including mental health programs covering a range of high risk behaviors. - crisis stabilization programs aimed at defusing parent/adolescent conflict. - group care programs designed to transition youth from a residential treatment setting including a foster care program. - community based programs which include walk-in counseling youth shelters crisis support and outreach programs. - day treatment schools for troubled community children and children and youth with behavioral difficulties and a recreation and outdoor mentoring program. - regional programs …
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $42.9M | $43M | $39M | — | — | $1.9M |
| 2023 | $40.7M | $40.6M | $37M | — | — | $2.1M |
| 2022 | $37.9M | $37.7M | $35.6M | — | — | $2M |
| 2021 | $39.2M | $39.1M | $35.6M | — | — | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $39.4M | $39.1M | $35.6M | — | — | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1.5M from 6 charities:
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
- $120,000–159,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions400
- Total compensation, all staff$33M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brenda Cherry (director-chair); Neal Halstead (treasurer officer); Jeanette Simeonidis (secretary-officer); Eric Perez (director); Lisa Fleck (director); Bruce Walker (director); Marney Callander (director); Chris Foster (director); Saima Ikram (director); Tracy Sletto (director); Dan Carter (director); Julie Ly (director); Chris Tortorelli (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Wood's Homes’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 835762501RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.