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.
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.