Alberta Cancer Foundation
Public foundation · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 118780477RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($49,297,967) as filed with the CRA.
Alberta Cancer Foundation is a public foundation based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under core health care. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $106.4M in revenue and $49.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 21% from donations, 34% from other charities. In 2024, 125 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $26.2M.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 16% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 85% of that peer group. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 50 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 11 qualified donees totalling $26M in 2024, the largest being $14M to Alberta Health Services. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $42M in 2020 to $106.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 18 names.
In its own words
The alberta cancer foundation provides funds for cancer research the prevention detection education and diagnosis of cancer and for the treatment and care of cancer patients within alberta.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $106.4M | $49.3M | $1.5M | $15.5M | $26M | $295.1M |
| 2023 | $54.3M | $48.4M | $1.2M | $16.2M | $25.8M | $202.3M |
| 2022 | $76.3M | $45.4M | $2.3M | $11.6M | $24.9M | $196.2M |
| 2021 | $41.4M | $34.3M | $2.8M | $12.1M | $13.4M | $205.3M |
| 2020 | $42M | $39.5M | $3.9M | $15.6M | $14.2M | $178.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $26M to 11 qualified donees:
- Alberta Health Services$14M
- University of Calgary$7.6M
- University of Alberta$4.1M
- Canadian Cancer Society$205K
- Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation$90K
- Prostate Cancer Centre Southern Alberta Institute of Urology$50K
- Barrhead Healthcare Centre Auxiliary$45K
- Covenant Foundation$44K
- Kids with Cancer Society$30K
- University Hospital Foundation$2,403
- Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation$2,403
Received $26.2M from 125 charities:
- The Arthur J E Child Foundation$12.5M
- Riddell Family Charitable Foundation$4M
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$2M
- Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation$1.2M
- Shaw Family Foundation$1M
- The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation$699K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$695K
- The Philip and Harriet Libin Family Foundation$600K
- Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation$486K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$276K
- Northern Lights Regional Health Foundation$265K
- The Calgary Foundation$262K
- AGAT Foundation$240K
- Canadahelps Canadon$225K
- Canadahelps Canadon$225K
- ATCO Electric Epic$180K
- BenefAction Foundation$134K
- Calgary Health Foundation$125K
- Canada Gives$112K
- The Cardinal Foundation$106K
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund$105K
- Ypma Family Foundation$62K
- WCPD Foundation$53K
- Henry Gusse Foundation$50K
- Norrep Foundation$50K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9993 positions
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions50
- Total compensation, all staff$7.2M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Chris Eagle (chair); Billy Morin; John Donald; Tom Valentine; Gelaine Pearman; Barb Munroe (vice chair); Sandra Lau; Brenda Hubley; Rajko Dodic; Brian Bale; Dean Ruether; Catherine Allard-Roozen; Shelley Powell; Max Chan; Darren Baumgardner; Kate Chisholm; Kiren Singh; Wayne Steinke.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Alberta Cancer Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118780477RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.