Boardwalk Charitable Trust Fund
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 867900698RR0001 · Protective Health Care
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($928,817) as filed with the CRA.
Boardwalk Charitable Trust Fund is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under protective health care. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $15.5M in revenue and $929K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from donations.
Compared with 85 health charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 98% 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 14 qualified donees totalling $929K in 2024, the largest being $288K to Jesus Loves You Society of Calgary. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $562K in 2020 to $15.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Grants to organizations that work with homelessness children and education
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $15.5M | $929K | — | — | $929K | $14.6M |
| 2023 | — | $28K | — | — | $28K | — |
| 2022 | $321K | $311K | — | — | $311K | $11K |
| 2021 | $387K | $387K | — | — | $387K | $2,026 |
| 2020 | $562K | $562K | — | — | $562K | $1,972 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $929K to 14 qualified donees:
- Jesus Loves You Society of Calgary$288K
- St. George Greek Orthodox Church$145K
- Simon House Residence Society$100K
- Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of Canada$100K
- Faith Food Bank Society$100K
- Youth With A Mission Society (Mexico)$69K
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$52K
- Calgary Police Foundation$25K
- The Ssubi Foundation$10K
- River Valley School Society$10K
- The Calgary Board of Education$10K
- Homefront Society for the Prevention of Domestic Violence$10K
- Zebra Child & Youth Advocacy Centre Society$5,000
- Raj Manek Business Mentorship Program$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sam Kolias (director/trustee); Samantha Kolias (director/trustee); Melissa Kolias (director/trustee); Vanessa Kolias (director/trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Boardwalk Charitable Trust Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 867900698RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.