Alberta Vipassana Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 855021739RR0001 · Teaching Institutions
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($280,711) as filed with the CRA.
Alberta Vipassana Foundation is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. 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 $279K in revenue and $281K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 94% from donations. In 2024, 4 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $26K.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 58% of peers.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $128K in 2020 to $279K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
A total of thirteen 10-day courses one satipathana course and one 3-day course were conducted by volunteer teachers. Course enrollments wre back at full capacity
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $279K | $281K | $252K | — | — | $468K |
| 2023 | $289K | $325K | $292K | — | — | $476K |
| 2022 | $196K | $276K | — | — | — | $495K |
| 2021 | $271K | $207K | — | — | — | $576K |
| 2020 | $128K | $198K | — | — | — | $512K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $26K from 4 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Simmi Gupta (president); Tin Vo (treasurer); Emilia Badarau (secretary); Robbie Prokop (trustee); Jennifer Hart (trustee); Kairav Shah (trustee); Larry Whitlow (trustee); Jeremy Bauman (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Alberta Vipassana Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 855021739RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.