Canadian Legacy Project
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 824788202RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($356,824) as filed with the CRA.
Canadian Legacy Project is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $372K in revenue and $357K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 93% from donations. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $117K.
Compared with 2,470 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The canadian legacy project was established to : 1. Support canadian veterans living in poverty recognize our canadian veterans and educate canadians about the sacrifices made by out canadian veterans/ 2. To receive gifts bequests trusts funds and property and to hold invest develop manage administer and distribute funs and property for the object of the company 3. To conduct any and all activities and exercises any and all such powers that are incidental and ancillary to the attainment of the wholly charitable object of the company and 4. To gift funds to other registere…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $372K | $357K | $269K | $72K | $252K | $615K |
| 2023 | $355K | $474K | $332K | $130K | $321K | $599K |
| 2022 | $380K | $324K | $234K | $74K | $130K | $718K |
| 2021 | $422K | $247K | $215K | $18K | $110K | $661K |
| 2020 | $417K | $282K | $227K | $28K | $108K | $486K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$237,161
- Other gifts$108,013
- Investment income$21,304
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
Received $117K from 11 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$35K
- Canadahelps Canadon$35K
- William S. Herron Family Charitable Foundation$15K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire$10K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,673
- The Calgary Foundation$1,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$569
- ATCO Electric Epic$500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$374
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$170
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
David Howard (president); Thomas Howard (vice president); Susan Howard (treasurer); Jacqueline Howard (secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Canadian Legacy Project’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 824788202RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.