Workers' Resource Centre
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 857269708RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,395,957) as filed with the CRA.
Workers' Resource Centre is a charitable organization based in Calgary, 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 8% from donations, 77% from government, 11% from other charities. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $102K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 11 permanent full-time positions.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $722K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The workers' resource centre has two main programs - its case work program and its public legal education program. The case work program provides individual assistance to workers who live or work in alberta and are facing difficulties at work including with matters related to employment standards wcb claims employment-related complaints and claims for employer and cpp disbility benefits. The public legal education program provides public education workshops to workers across alberta on matters involving its case work program usually in partnership with other alberta not-for-profit agencies…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $1.4M | $1M | $40K | — | $676K |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $1M | $788K | — | — | $226K |
| 2022 | $711K | $694K | $553K | — | — | $181K |
| 2021 | $680K | $689K | $551K | — | — | $164K |
| 2020 | $722K | $725K | $610K | — | — | $173K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $102K from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9998 positions
- Permanent full-time positions11
- Total compensation, all staff$980K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alexander Shevalier (treasurer); Noureddine Bouissoukrane (director); Emily Grier (board chair); Karen Kuprys (director); Sarah Dorma (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Workers' Resource Centre’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 857269708RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.