Foothills Academy Society
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 118927060RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($12,460,583) as filed with the CRA.
Foothills Academy Society is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $13.6M in revenue and $12.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 11% from donations, 36% from government. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $493K.
Compared with 733 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 86% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 82% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $160,000–199,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 88 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Designated special education private school (dseps) for students with diagnosed learning disabilities. In addition the society supports the greater community through psychological services; remedial literacy and numeracy interventions; professional development; community education; and recreational programming for young people with ld and/or adhd.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $13.6M | $12.5M | $12M | $157K | — | $18.3M |
| 2023 | $11.6M | $11.5M | $11.2M | $100K | — | $17.2M |
| 2022 | $11.2M | $11.2M | $10.3M | $88K | — | $17.1M |
| 2021 | $12.1M | $10M | $9.6M | $131K | — | $17.2M |
| 2020 | $11.1M | $9.3M | $8.7M | $191K | — | $15.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $493K from 15 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$288K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$84K
- The Prosser Charitable Foundation$80K
- Olympia Charitable Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$8,567
- Lily Street Foundation$5,000
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$5,000
- Spruce Meadows Leg Up Foundation$5,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$3,422
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,930
- ATCO Electric Epic$624
- Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary$250
- The Philip and Harriet Libin Family Foundation$250
- Prime Quadrant Foundation$50
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$30
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9992 positions
- $80,000–119,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions88
- Total compensation, all staff$9M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Leslie Archibald (governor); Dennis Auger (treasurer); Harold Esche (vice chair); Leo Golden (governor); Karen Macmillan (co executive director); Elke Meyer (governor); Kristin Smith (chairperson); Carmella Steinke (secretary); Angela Vandenbeld Bishop (fapa rep); Simon Williams (co-executive director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Foothills Academy Society’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118927060RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.