Calgary CO-Op Community Foundation
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119217990RR0001 · Support of Schools and Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-10-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,605,885) as filed with the CRA.
Calgary CO-Op Community Foundation is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of schools and education. In its fiscal year ending October 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations. In 2024, 3 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $64K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 20% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 25 qualified donees totalling $1.1M in 2024, the largest being $200K to Faith Food Bank Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $389K in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024.
In its own words
Relief of poverty through food security and other supports for vulnerable populations including at-risk youth seniors and others in the community; Advancement of education through scholarships bursaries and grants Providing benefit to the community in a way that is recognized as charitable
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $1.6M | — | — | $1.1M | $245K |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $1.3M | — | — | $841K | $311K |
| 2022 | $793K | $783K | — | — | $619K | $244K |
| 2021 | $554K | $541K | — | — | $438K | $235K |
| 2020 | $389K | $378K | $6,492 | — | $280K | $222K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, October 31, 2024
- Other income$1,031,703
- Other gifts$249,629
- Receipted donations$225,615
- Investment income$25,910
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.1M to 25 qualified donees:
- Faith Food Bank Society$200K
- Brown Bagging for Calgary Street Kids Society$128K
- Calgary Meals on Wheels$115K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$91K
- Fear Is Not Love Society$81K
- The Mustard Seed Foundation$69K
- The Charitable Foundation of the Ontario Grocery Industry$53K
- Calgary Health Foundation$50K
- Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation$45K
- Carya Society of Calgary$40K
- Hospice Calgary$35K
- The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary an Alberta Society$25K
- Charity Plus Donations - Various$22K
- Wilder Institute$20K
- Unison Society$20K
- Inn From the Cold$15K
- Calgary Seniors' Resource Society$15K
- Airdrir Food Bank$11K
- Pride Calgary$10K
- PCC Prostate Cancer Centre$10K
- The Wood's Homes Foundation$10K
- Wheatland County Food Bank$6,794
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$5,015
- Southern Alberta Institute of Technology$5,000
- Mount Royal University$5,000
Received $64K from 3 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$82K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Calgary CO-Op Community Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119217990RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.