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Alberta Civil Forfeiture Community Grant Funding (2022-2024)

Original source: https://www.alberta.ca/system/files/pses-civil-forfeiture-grants-funded-2024.pdf

Local snapshot (archived 2026-07-03): full-page PDF committed at sources/budgets/_archive/alberta-civil-forfeiture-community-grants-2022-2024/alberta-civil-forfeiture-community-grants-2022-2024.pdf.

Alberta discloses that civil-forfeiture proceeds are distributed as community crime-prevention grants via the Alberta Crime Prevention (ACP) grant program — NOT paid directly to police services. This is the key finding: forfeiture money in Alberta reaches EPS only indirectly (if at all) through community orgs.

Program note (verbatim)

"In 2022-24, civil forfeiture community grant funding was provided through the Alberta Crime Prevention (ACP) grant."

Grant recipients 2022-2024 (verbatim, CAD)

  • Action Coalition on Human Trafficking Alberta — It Takes a Village — $291,250
  • Alberta Crime Stoppers Association — Operations, Crime Reduction and Data 2 Action — $500,000
  • Calgary Youth Justice Society — In the Lead 180 Alberta — $110,500
  • Camrose Open Door Association — $145,816
  • Central Alberta FASD Society — $150,000
  • Driftpile Cree Nation — Community Security Services — $148,262
  • Edmonton John Howard Society — REESTART program — $136,329*
  • Enviros Wilderness School Association — $297,956
  • Family Futures Resource Network Society — $150,000
  • Lloydminster Interval Home Society — $50,000
  • Lloydminster Sexual Assault Services Inc. — $150,000
  • The John Howard Society of Grande Prairie — Tabono 2.0 — $148,530
  • YMCA of Northern Alberta (Edmonton) — Youth Diversion Program — $300,000
  • Youth Canada Association (YOUCAN) — Relentless Youth Outreach — $150,000
  • TOTAL — $4,000,000

Footnote (verbatim): "* This organization's total ACP grant award also included funding from the federal Gun and Gang Violence Action Fund." (So ACP grants are co-funded provincial civil-forfeiture + federal guns-and-gangs money.)

Cumulative civil forfeiture grants (from alberta.ca/civil-forfeiture)

"The Alberta government has awarded over $19.7 million in grants to community-based programs from the proceeds of civil forfeitures." Alberta's stated distribution of forfeited proceeds: community-based grants (victims/crime prevention), police training and operations, civil forfeiture program operating costs, victim compensation, payment to innocent creditors. No annual total-forfeited figure is disclosed publicly.

Edmonton-relevant civil forfeiture money (2022-24)

  • Edmonton John Howard Society: $136,329
  • YMCA of Northern Alberta (Edmonton): $300,000
  • = ~$436,329 to Edmonton-based orgs (NOT to EPS itself)