Henry Gusse Foundation
Private foundation · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 859765364RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,494,242) as filed with the CRA.
Henry Gusse Foundation is a private foundation based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 26 qualified donees totalling $1.2M in 2024, the largest being $250K to The Canadian Mission Board of the Church of God in Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
We donate funds to a variety of local and international registered charities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1.5M | $123K | — | $1.2M | $23.2M |
| 2023 | $3.8M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.3M | $23.6M |
| 2022 | $1M | $957K | — | — | $846K | $21.1M |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $745K | $93K | — | $560K | $21M |
| 2020 | $780K | $922K | $77K | — | $760K | $20.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.2M to 26 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Canadian Mission Board of the Church of God in Canada$250K
- ShareWord Global Canada$100K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$80K
- Will Go Ministries (canada)$60K
- Hope Mission$60K
- Edmonton Youth Unlimited (yfc) Society$60K
- The Bible League of Canada$60K
- The Mustard Seed Foundation$60K
- Mercy Ships Canada Society$55K
- The Canadian Mission Board of the Church of God in Canada$50K
- Open Doors Canada$50K
- Alberta Cancer Foundation$50K
- Northern Alberta Institute of Technology$30K
- Hope and Healing International$30K
- Bissell Centre$30K
- The Canadian Mission Board of the Church of God in Canada$30K
- The Cardus Institute$25K
- Focus on the Family (canada) Association$20K
- Union Gospel Mission$20K
- Edmonton Youth Unlimited (yfc) Society$20K
- Glenrose Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation$20K
- Edmonton Meals on Wheels$15K
- Abundant Kingdom Living Association$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- Adeara Recovery Centre$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gerda Gusse (trustee); Larry Gusse (trustee); Adelle Gusse (trustee); Barbara Zerbin (trustee); David Zerbin (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Henry Gusse Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 859765364RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.