Cidel Foundation
Public foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 836725820RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,916,903) as filed with the CRA.
Cidel Foundation is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $14.2M in revenue and $6.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 72% from donations.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 56% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 187 qualified donees totalling $6.2M in 2024, the largest being $550K to Canadian Centre for Food and Ecology. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.2M in 2020 to $14.2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The charity contributes to certain registered charities based on elgibility criteria.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $14.2M | $6.9M | — | — | $6.2M | $66.6M |
| 2023 | $9.5M | $26.1M | — | — | $25.4M | $59.3M |
| 2022 | $16.5M | $5.7M | — | — | $5M | $75.9M |
| 2021 | $9.9M | $5.5M | — | — | $4.9M | $65.1M |
| 2020 | $3.2M | $4.3M | — | — | $3.8M | $60.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $6.2M to 187 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Canadian Centre for Food and Ecology$550K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$500K
- United Jewish Appeal of Greater Toronto$360K
- Centre for Addiction and Mental Health Foundation$250K
- St. Boniface Street Links Incorporated$250K
- The Mustard Seed Foundation$200K
- Legal Help Centre of Winnipeg Inc.$200K
- Canadian Centre for Food and Ecology$160K
- Sowers International$150K
- The Jewish Theological Society of Canada$125K
- Canadian Centre for Food and Ecology$100K
- Congregation Darchei Noam Reconstructionist Synagogue of Toronto$100K
- Canadian Centre for Food and Ecology$100K
- The Royal Winnipeg Ballet$100K
- Shaarei Shomayim Congregation$100K
- UHN Foundation$100K
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$100K
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$100K
- The Royal Winnipeg Ballet$93K
- University of Cambridge$90K
- University of Cambridge$85K
- Land Food People Foundation$71K
- Canadian Centre for Food and Ecology$70K
- Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms$65K
- The Great Commission Foundation$65K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Cidel Trust Company (trustee); Allison Maher (trustee); Gena Rotstein (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Cidel Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 836725820RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.