Kids Up Front Foundation (calgary)
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 863522124RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,231,831) as filed with the CRA.
Kids Up Front Foundation (calgary) is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $2.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 86% from donations. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $245K.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 50% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 5 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 159 qualified donees totalling $1.5M in 2024, the largest being $134K to Kids Play Youth Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $739K in 2020 to $2.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 14 names.
In its own words
Kids Up Front provides educational and entertainment experiences to qualified donees to disadvantaged children youth and their families. The program serves the qualified agencies who in turn provide the experiences to their clients as per our foundations objectives.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $2.2M | $343K | $88K | $1.6M | $380K |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $1.9M | $1.7M | $80K | $1.3M | $244K |
| 2022 | $1.6M | $1.5M | $1.3M | $132K | $1M | $369K |
| 2021 | $1.2M | $1.1M | $968K | $7,748 | $798K | $370K |
| 2020 | $739K | $694K | — | — | $289K | $322K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.5M to 159 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Kids Play Youth Foundation$134K
- CRFKA - Calgary Region Foster and Kinship Association$99K
- St. Hubert$67K
- Ups and Downs - Calgary Down Syndrome Association.$64K
- KUF Krew$63K
- Diversecities$49K
- White Eagle Wellness Association$44K
- Heart Beats Children's Society of Calgary$43K
- Our Lady of the Rockies High School$41K
- Trellis Society for Community Impact$37K
- PIA - Portail de L'immigrant Association$35K
- Hull Services$35K
- Cerebral Palsy Kids and Families (CP Kids)$33K
- CBFY - Calgary Bridge Foundation for Youth$28K
- Discovery House Family Violence Prevention Society$28K
- Renfrew Educational Services$26K
- SPEFSA - Centre D'Appui Familial$24K
- Janus Academy Society$20K
- Heartland Agency and Educational Services$19K
- AAFS - Autism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary$17K
- Starlight Children's Foundation$17K
- Wood's Homes (Calgary)$15K
- ECSSEN Career School$14K
- MCFS - Metis Calgary Family Services$14K
- TIES - The Immigrant Education Society$14K
Received $245K from 17 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$59K
- Canadahelps Canadon$59K
- The Taylor Family Foundation$25K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$25K
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canada$20K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$10K
- The Calgary Foundation$7,787
- GiftPact Foundation Inc.$5,000
- The Qr77/westin Hotel Calgary Children's Foundation$4,000
- Ups & Downs - Calgary Down Syndrome Parent Support Group Association$3,600
- BenefAction Foundation$2,000
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$1,134
- Lily Street Foundation$1,000
- Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation$1,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$1,000
- Trotter Family Foundation$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9991 position
- $40,000–79,9994 positions
- Permanent full-time positions5
- Total compensation, all staff$358K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Ayaz Gulamhussein (chair); Paul Seo (treasurer); Ian Beddis (director); Joel Bray (director); Steve LePan (director); Irene Ludwig (director); Jesse Shouldice (director); Wayne Omstead (director); Dan Collins (secretary); Scot Benson (director); Josh Malate (director); Colleen Abel (director); Nwaerondu Desmond (director); Hudzinski Taylor (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Kids Up Front Foundation (calgary)’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 863522124RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.