Educationmatters
Public foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 898887005RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,979,082) as filed with the CRA.
Educationmatters is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $5.1M in revenue and $3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 39% from donations, 30% from other charities. In 2024, 28 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.5M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 99% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 28 qualified donees totalling $3M in 2024, the largest being $2.2M to Calgary Board of Education. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.2M in 2020 to $5.1M in 2024.
In its own words
Advance and enhance public education in the city of calgary by providing grants to qualified donees involved in public education. The principal donee is the calgary board of education
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.1M | $3M | $780K | $225K | $3M | $12.7M |
| 2023 | $4.9M | $1.8M | $813K | $243K | $1.8M | $11.3M |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $3.3M | $837K | $245K | $2.5M | $9.1M |
| 2021 | $3.3M | $2.1M | $72K | $169K | $1.2M | $9.8M |
| 2020 | $3.2M | $2.3M | $89K | $146K | $1.5M | $8.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Public foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$1,889,725
- From other charities$1,534,271
- Investment income$1,049,739
- Other income$510,000
- Other gifts$84,697
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
Granted $3M to 28 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Calgary Board of Education$2.2M
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$477K
- Mount Royal University$49K
- Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology$42K
- Alberta University of the Arts$30K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$21K
- University of Victoria$20K
- Royal Institution for the Advancement of Learning$14K
- McMaster University$13K
- Memorial University of Newfoundland$10K
- University of British Columbia$9,500
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$8,900
- Bon Valley College$7,500
- The Conestoga College Institute of Technology and Advanced Learning$7,000
- University of Lethbridge$5,000
- University of Waterloo$4,500
- Mercer University$3,750
- University of Waterloo$3,500
- The University of New Brunswick$2,500
- Ambrose University$2,500
- Western University$2,000
- Niwe Academy$1,750
- University of British Columbia - Okanogan$1,500
- Trinity Western University$1,500
- CBBC Career College$1,250
Received $2.5M from 28 charities:
- EJO Trust$1M
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$845K
- The Calgary Foundation$374K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$36K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$35K
- Canada Gives$22K
- BenefAction Foundation$20K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$12K
- Hunter Family Foundation$10K
- Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation$10K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$8,291
- The Wagemakers Foundation$6,000
- The Ed Stelmach Community Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$3,516
- William Aberhart Music Parents Association$3,450
- TD Friends of the Environment Foundation$3,350
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,225
- Calgary North Academic Awards Fund$1,000
- Power of One Foundation$1,000
- Totem Charitable Foundation$1,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$713
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$623
- Mobile Giving Foundation Canada$220
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$512K
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 Educationmatters’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 898887005RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.