McCreath Foundation
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 777476870RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($175,073) as filed with the CRA.
McCreath 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 $613K in revenue and $175K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 66% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 15 qualified donees totalling $170K in 2024, the largest being $50K to University of Saskatchewan. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
It is the charity’s objective to support the following oganizations that our family supported prior to establishing birchbay foundation: 1. We will continue to support our indigenous student scholarship at the edwards school of busienss at the university of saskatchewan. In addition we continue to support various college initiatives including the college of education. 2. Our family has a history of supporting the arts. Members of the brichbay forundation are directors of the whyte museum of the canadian rockies banff and the remai fournation (art gallery of saskatchewan) saskatoon. 3…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $613K | $175K | — | — | $170K | $3.8M |
| 2023 | $1.1M | $194K | — | — | $187K | $3.4M |
| 2022 | $959K | $124K | — | — | $117K | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $874K | $67K | — | — | $63K | $1.6M |
| 2020 | $593K | $23K | — | — | $19K | $823K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $170K to 15 qualified donees:
- University of Saskatchewan$50K
- City of Calgary$20K
- Canadian Veterans Services Society$20K
- Canada's Sports Hall of Fame$20K
- Remai Modern Foundation Inc.$12K
- Prince Edward County Memorial Hospital Foundation$10K
- Canadian Unicef Committee$7,500
- The Waskesiu Foundation Inc.$7,040
- Calgary Parks Foundation$5,000
- Calgary Young Women's Christian Association$5,000
- Saskatchewan Polytechnic$5,000
- The Calgary Foundation$3,000
- Ycc - Youth Centres of Calgary$2,500
- Trellis Society for Community Impact$1,500
- Alzheimer Society of Calgary$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
James McCreath (director); Scott McCreath (president); Susanne McCreath (secretary and treasurer); Andy McCreath (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from McCreath Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 777476870RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.