Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 891542342RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($110,302) as filed with the CRA.
Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $105K in revenue and $110K in expenditures.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 48% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 43 qualified donees totalling $90K in 2024, the largest being $5,500 to Werklund Centre. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Providing funding to local organizations involved in fine arts performing arts athletics letters medicine and education.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $105K | $110K | — | — | $90K | $1.8M |
| 2023 | $106K | $113K | — | — | $92K | $1.8M |
| 2022 | $82K | $90K | — | — | $66K | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $117K | $89K | — | — | $63K | $1.8M |
| 2020 | $108K | $93K | — | — | $70K | $1.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $90K to 43 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Werklund Centre$5,500
- Spruce Meadows Leg Up Foundation$4,000
- Alberta Theatre Projects Development Foundation$4,000
- Hull Services$3,000
- Diabetes Ontario$3,000
- Decidedly Jazz Society$3,000
- Closer to Home Community Services Society$3,000
- The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation$3,000
- The Calgary Between Friends Club-Fun and Fellowship for Disabled Youth$3,000
- Radiance Family Society$2,500
- Sagesse Domestic Violence Prevention Society$2,500
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$2,500
- Youth Singers of Calgary Society$2,000
- The Canadian Society for the Weizmann Institute of Science$2,000
- The Proarts Art Society$2,000
- Mount Royal University Foundation$2,000
- Lunchbox Theatre$2,000
- The International Festival of Song and Chamber Music Society$2,000
- Hospice Calgary Foundation$2,000
- Heritage Park Society$2,000
- Forte Musical Theatre Guild$2,000
- Fear Is Not Love Society$2,000
- Calgary Chinook Scout Foundation$2,000
- Calgary Young People's Theatre Society$2,000
- Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society$2,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$12K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Yvonne Chenier (director/president); Cheryl Cohen (director/secretary); David Cohen (director); Faye Cohen (director); Philip Cohen (director); Munir Jivraj (director/treasurer); Patti Pon (director); Brian Rogers (director); Meredith Paget (director); Kristy Trinier (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891542342RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.