Friends of Meccs Education Foundation
Public foundation · Warburg, Alberta · BN 839310604RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($503,333) as filed with the CRA.
Friends of Meccs Education Foundation is a public foundation based in Warburg, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $438K in revenue and $503K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 93% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $300K in 2024, the largest being $300K to Mother Earth's Children's Charter School Society. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $438K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The purpose of friends of meccs education foundation is to provide facilities to mother earth's children's charter school society.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $438K | $503K | $202K | — | $300K | $3.8M |
| 2023 | $462K | $372K | $355K | — | $17K | $3.8M |
| 2022 | $399K | $490K | $333K | — | $157K | $3.7M |
| 2021 | $584K | $195K | $195K | — | — | $3.8M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $311K | $207K | — | — | $3.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $300K to 1 qualified donee:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Dale Friedel (chair); Cindy Paul (director); Emil Derocher (director); John Bird (director); Melanie Ure (director); Jon Hutt (vice chair); Erin Danforth (director); Anita Lemoignan (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Friends of Meccs Education Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 839310604RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.