Calgary Police Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 812149714RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,930,784) as filed with the CRA.
Calgary Police Foundation is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. 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 $5.5M in revenue and $4.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations, 51% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 16 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $786K.
Compared with 829 community-service institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
It reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $1M in 2024, the largest being $626K to The Calgary Police Interpretive Centre. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.5M in 2020 to $5.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 15 names.
In its own words
The calgary police foundation (cpf)operates under the name of the calgary police youth foundation. It's purpose is to educate youth about good citizenship safe communities policing and avoiding victimization and criminality. Cpf does this by providing funding to support nine unique programs and hosting community initiatives that provide education prevention and early intervention resources which collectively keep children and youth ages 5 to 18 from crime and or being a victim of crime. Programs and community initiatives are delivered by calgary police serivce community partners and volunt…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.5M | $4.9M | $3.6M | $268K | $1M | $4.6M |
| 2023 | $3.3M | $2.9M | $2M | $173K | $742K | $4.1M |
| 2022 | $2.3M | $2M | $944K | $149K | $862K | $3.6M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.5M | $359K | $169K | $917K | $3.4M |
| 2020 | $1.5M | $1.1M | $249K | $56K | $780K | $3.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1M to 2 qualified donees:
- The Calgary Police Interpretive Centre$626K
- Calgary Police Service/city of Calgary$415K
Received $786K from 16 charities:
- Shaw Family Foundation$250K
- Canadahelps Canadon$173K
- Canadahelps Canadon$173K
- Aeonian Support for Humanitarian Charities Foundation$50K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$30K
- Boardwalk Charitable Trust Fund$25K
- Hunter Family Foundation$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$17K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$15K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$5,038
- The Calgary Foundation$2,500
- Calgary Flames Foundation$2,500
- BenefAction Foundation$2,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$500
- Faith Food Bank Society—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$55K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Bonita Croft (chair); Mark Neufeld (director); Grant Stapon (director); Stephanie Felesky (director); Carolina Walls (director); Jennifer Dugdale (director); Joanne Pitman (director); Ron Deyholos (director); Rick Green; Patricia Bronsch (director); Bryan Szumlas (director); Shawn Cornett (director); Andrew Judson (director); Claire O'Connor (director); Susan Cron (executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Calgary Police Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 812149714RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.