Hunter Family Foundation
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 118965409RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,177,718) as filed with the CRA.
Hunter Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $8.6M in revenue and $6.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% 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 39% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 74 qualified donees totalling $5.1M in 2024, the largest being $500K to Place2Give Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.5M in 2020 to $8.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
The foundation will continue to satisfy its charitable objectives ad meet its disbursement quota by making gifts to qualified donees.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.6M | $6.2M | — | — | $5.1M | $77.2M |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $8.2M | — | — | $7.5M | $74.8M |
| 2022 | $5.2M | $7.2M | — | — | $6.1M | $78.6M |
| 2021 | $8.3M | $6.4M | — | — | $5.4M | $80.6M |
| 2020 | $3.5M | $7.7M | — | — | $6.8M | $78.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $5.1M to 74 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Place2Give Foundation$500K
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$250K
- Kids Help Phone / Jeunesse J' Ecoute$250K
- Strongest Families Institute$200K
- Institut économique de montréal$200K
- Momentum Community Economic Development Society$200K
- The Frontier Centre for Public Policy Inc.$200K
- Centre for Civic Engagement$200K
- Calgary Stampede Foundation$200K
- The Mindfuel Foundation$150K
- Centre for Civic Engagement$125K
- Windmill Microlending$100K
- Calgary Silver Linings Foundation$100K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$100K
- Mental Health Foundation$100K
- The Macdonald-Laurier Institute$100K
- The Impact Society for Children & Families in Turmoil$100K
- Futurpreneur Foundation$100K
- City of Calgary - Platform Calgary$100K
- Friends of Canadian Institutes of Health Research Inc./Amis des Instituts de recherche en santé du Canada Inc.$100K
- Canadian Constitution Foundation$100K
- Calgary Counselling Centre$100K
- Aristotle Foundation for Public Policy$100K
- Unison Society$75K
- Branch Out Neurological Foundation$70K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
H. Douglas Hunter (trustee); V. Diane Hunter (trustee); Derrick Hunter (trustee); Adam Hunter (trustee).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Hunter Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118965409RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.