Acadia Charitable Trust
Private foundation · Lethbridge, Alberta · BN 139024830RR0001 · Christianity
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($38,592) as filed with the CRA.
Acadia Charitable Trust is a private foundation based in Lethbridge, Alberta, classified by the CRA under christianity. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $700 in revenue and $39K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 13,471 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 78% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1.1M in 2020, the largest being $1.1M to Meridian Charitable Trust. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $404 in 2020 to $700 in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
Operation of a hutterite church school kindergarten and pre-school
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $700 | $39K | $39K | — | — | $924K |
| 2023 | $619 | $36K | $36K | — | — | $962K |
| 2022 | $488 | $36K | $36K | — | — | $998K |
| 2021 | $388 | $31K | $31K | — | — | $1M |
| 2020 | $404 | $1.1M | $30K | — | $1.1M | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2020
Granted $1.1M to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Entz (trustee/owner); Samuel Mandel (trustee/owner); John Mandel (trustee/owner).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Acadia Charitable Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 139024830RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.