Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta
Public foundation · Lethbridge, Alberta · BN 119018349RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,265,214) as filed with the CRA.
Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta is a public foundation based in Lethbridge, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $7.1M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 22% from donations. In 2024, 7 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $146K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 34% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 144 qualified donees totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $87K to The University of Lethbridge.
In its own words
The community foundation manages charitable gifts from donors in permanent income-earning endowment funds and distributes the investment income earned as grants to registered charities throughout the region of southwestern alberta.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $7.1M | $2.3M | $185K | $96K | $1.6M | $43.4M |
| 2023 | $8.8M | $2.1M | $150K | $98K | $1.5M | $38.6M |
| 2022 | -$1.3M | $1.7M | $233K | $60K | $1.2M | $31.9M |
| 2021 | $5.2M | $1.8M | $120K | $17K | $1.4M | $34.9M |
| 2020 | $5.3M | $2.5M | $136K | $12K | $2.1M | $31.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.6M to 144 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The University of Lethbridge$87K
- Wood's Homes Society$85K
- Town of Vulcan$55K
- Town of Fort Macleod$48K
- The Lethbridge School Division$44K
- Canadian Volleyball Association$40K
- Claresholm and District Health Foundation$35K
- New West Theatre Society$34K
- Lethbridge Therapeutic Riding Association$32K
- Taber Safe Haven Women's Shelter Society$30K
- Friends of Taber Literacy Association$30K
- Claresholm Social Centre Society$28K
- The Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization$26K
- Town of Taber$25K
- Town of Pincher Creek$25K
- Careers the Next Generation Foundation$25K
- Southwest Alberta Regional Search And Rescue Society$25K
- Real Humanitarian$25K
- Lethbridge & Region Community Housing Corporation$25K
- Lethbridge Symphony Association$23K
- Lethbridge Family Services$21K
- Town of Coaldale$20K
- Bridges of Hope International Network of Development Agencies Inc.$20K
- MD of Taber$18K
- The Priory of Canada of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of ST John of Jerusalem$18K
Received $146K from 7 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$316K
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 Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119018349RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.