Bean Family Foundation
Private foundation · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 789067873RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($731,151) as filed with the CRA.
Bean Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $661K in revenue and $731K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 76% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $1M to Hope Mission. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $218K in 2020 to $661K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The bean family foundation will make gifts to qualifed donees including but not limited to : gordon russell's crystal kids youth centre camp health hope & happiness and ellerslie road baptist church society
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $661K | $731K | — | — | $715K | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $123K | $690K | — | — | $675K | $2.5M |
| 2022 | $1.1M | $677K | — | — | $665K | $2.9M |
| 2021 | $383K | $489K | — | — | $475K | $2.8M |
| 2020 | $218K | $421K | — | — | $400K | $2.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.6M to 8 qualified donees:
- Hope Mission$1M
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$140K
- International Justice Mission Canada / Mission Internationale de Justice-Canada$100K
- Ellerslie Road Baptist Church Society$100K
- Gordon Russell's Crystal Kids Youth Centre$100K
- Camp Health Hope & Happiness Society$100K
- Adeara Recovery Centre$50K
- Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation$25K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ingrid Bean (vice-president); Jacqueline Knickle (secretary); Rebecca Knickle (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Bean Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 789067873RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.