McEachern Family Foundation
Private foundation · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 789769106RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($235,585) as filed with the CRA.
McEachern Family 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 $775K in revenue and $236K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% 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 32% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 18 qualified donees totalling $180K in 2024, the largest being $10K to The Board of Trustees of Edmonton School Division. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $400K in 2021 to $775K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees as defined in the income tax act (canada).
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $775K | $236K | — | — | $180K | $3.2M |
| 2023 | $115K | $403K | — | — | $170K | $2.7M |
| 2022 | $2.8M | $253K | — | — | — | $3M |
| 2021 | $400K | $2,000 | — | — | — | $398K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $180K to 18 qualified donees:
- The Board of Trustees of Edmonton School Division$10K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$10K
- Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation$10K
- Wings of Providence Society$10K
- University Hospitals Foundation$10K
- ST John Council for Alberta$10K
- Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation$10K
- The Salvation Army Alberta & Northern Territories Division$10K
- Parkinson Canada Inc.$10K
- The Mustard Seed Foundation$10K
- MS Canada SP Canada$10K
- The Canadian National Institute For The Blind$10K
- Hope Mission$10K
- Heart and Stroke Foundation of Canada$10K
- Canadian Guide Dogs for the Blind$10K
- Alzheimer Society of Canada$10K
- Edmonton Humane Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$10K
- Cowichan Valley Hospice Society$10K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Allan Edie (secretary-treasurer); Margaret McEachern (chairperson); Graham Budd (director); Patricia Young (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from McEachern Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 789769106RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.