Foothills Land Trust
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 883913006RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($109,857) as filed with the CRA.
Foothills Land Trust is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $97K in revenue and $110K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations, 47% from other charities. In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1,335.
Compared with 1,274 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 48% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $31K in 2020 to $97K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Volunteers and Directors donated over 100 hour to programs including conservation property monitoring and property assessments. These hours were in addition to normal Board and Officer duties. The Foothills Land Trust has a total of eight (8) conservation easements that is manages and administers and was working on one new conservation easements during 2024. Significant volunteer hours during the year were used to manage the existing conservation easement properties conduct property health assessments (range land and riparian assessments) and pursuing new conservation easements.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $97K | $110K | $100K | — | — | $7.6M |
| 2023 | $78K | $56K | $46K | — | — | $7.6M |
| 2022 | $273K | $13K | $5,463 | — | — | $7.5M |
| 2021 | $32K | $37K | $0 | — | $0 | $5.5M |
| 2020 | $31K | $12K | $0 | — | $0 | $5.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $1,335 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Herbert (Sandy) Bruce (director and president); Thomas Maier (director and treasurer); Michelle Danielson (director and secretary); Ralph Nelson (director); Donald Larson (director and vice president); George Rock (director); Robert Gregg (director); Diana Froc (director); Robert Siewert (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Foothills Land Trust’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 883913006RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.