Hobgoblin Foundation
Private foundation · Lethbridge, Alberta · BN 786834697RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-01-31. Split of total expenditures ($475,835) as filed with the CRA.
Hobgoblin Foundation is a private foundation based in Lethbridge, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending January 31, 2024, it reported $4.7M in revenue and $476K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 21 qualified donees totalling $425K in 2024, the largest being $75K to Western University-Accessibility Services for the Child and. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1M in 2020 to $4.7M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Donations to registered canadian charities
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.7M | $476K | — | — | $415K | $14.4M |
| 2023 | $1.4M | $303K | — | — | $250K | $10.3M |
| 2022 | $1.9M | $246K | — | — | $195K | $9.2M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $207K | — | — | $170K | $7.5M |
| 2020 | $1M | $152K | — | — | $115K | $6.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $425K to 21 qualified donees:
- Western University-Accessibility Services for the Child and$75K
- Youth Opportunities Unlimited$25K
- Boundless Adventures Association$25K
- Gakino'amaage: Teach For Canada$25K
- Community Foundation of Lethbridge and Southwestern Alberta$25K
- Interfaith Food Bank Society of Lethbridge$20K
- Hope Air$20K
- Lethbridge Food Bank Society$20K
- Face the Future Foundation$20K
- West Coast Kids Cancer Foundation$20K
- Take a Hike Youth Mental Health Foundation$20K
- Campfire Circle Autour du Feu$20K
- Lethbridge Polytechnic$20K
- The London Cross-Cultural Learner Centre$15K
- Kids in Camp$15K
- Autism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary$10K
- Fighting Blindness Canada$10K
- Autism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary$10K
- Dave Stoch Campership Fund$10K
- Lethbridge Family Services$10K
- Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Arthur Crooks (president); Mary Jane Crooks (vice president); Hew Crooks (treasurer); Claire Crooks (secretary); Morgan Crooks (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hobgoblin Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 786834697RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.