F.A.C.E. Free African Children thru Education
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 819263633RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($74,946) as filed with the CRA.
F.A.C.E. Free African Children thru Education is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $80K in revenue and $75K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% from donations, 33% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $25K.
Compared with 3,624 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 73% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $1,750 in 2024, the largest being $1,750 to Mamawi Atosketan Native School. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $40K in 2020 to $80K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
FACE (Free African Children thru Education) provides financial support for the education of underprivileged children living with relatives in Africa allowing them to attend Primary and Secondary Seventh-day Adventist Schools. Financial support includes funds to cover tuition fees books and other scholastic materials uniforms sports equipment lunches as well as bank fees and administrative costs incurred by the schools in sending application forms enrollment lists photos and reports on the use of funds back to FACE. FACE believes that a proper learning environment is also important to…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $80K | $75K | $72K | — | $1,750 | $153K |
| 2023 | $73K | $107K | $104K | — | $1,750 | $145K |
| 2022 | $75K | $96K | $89K | — | — | $175K |
| 2021 | $94K | $10K | $10K | — | — | $195K |
| 2020 | $40K | $40K | $38K | — | — | $111K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1,750 to 1 qualified donee:
Received $25K from 2 charities:
- The Alberta Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church$25K
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$1,460
Schedule 3 of its 2020 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
John Kartik (president); Masson Charlene (secretary/treasurer); Terry Lachance (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from F.A.C.E. Free African Children thru Education’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 819263633RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.