Glasswaters Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 858057987RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,682,877) as filed with the CRA.
Glasswaters Foundation is a private foundation 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 December 31, 2024, it reported $240K in revenue and $2.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 87% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $40,000–79,999 range. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $1.6M in 2024, the largest being $500K to Child Haven International - Accueil International pour l'Enfance. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
1) we feed clothe shelter and educate impoverished and disabled people overseas. 2) we provide grants to qualified donees and non-qualified donees working in environmental research education and protection; arts education and performance; poverty relief and health programs. 3) we provide an annual independently joined writers award.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $240K | $2.7M | $947K | $44 | $1.7M | $4.2M |
| 2023 | $178K | $1.5M | $825K | $42 | $657K | $6.8M |
| 2022 | $251K | $1.4M | — | — | $455K | $8M |
| 2021 | $211K | $814K | $208K | $35 | $251K | $9.8M |
| 2020 | $223K | $558K | $305K | $53 | $208K | $11M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.6M to 18 qualified donees:
- Child Haven International - Accueil International pour l'Enfance$500K
- Help Lesotho$400K
- Innovativecommunities.org Foundation$280K
- Columbia Institute$110K
- Sentinel Educational Foundation$75K
- Videa a BC-Based International Development Education Association$66K
- Ecojustice Canada Society$28K
- The Society of High Prairie Regional Environmental Action Committee$20K
- The Community Foundation of Orillia and Area$20K
- The Narwhal News Society$16K
- Raven (respecting Aboriginal Values and Environmental Needs)$15K
- Eya Environmental Youth Alliance Society$15K
- The Back Door a Youth Employment Society$15K
- Georgia Strait Alliance$10K
- The Calgary John Howard Society$10K
- Alexandra Community Health Centre$10K
- West Coast Environmental Law Research Foundation$2,000
- Quadra Island Conservancy and Stewardship Society$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$58K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joann McCaig (chair); Michael McCaig (secretary); Andrew Boyer (treasurer); Kevin Boyer.
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Glasswaters Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 858057987RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.