Nickle Family Foundation
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119057727RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,065,976) as filed with the CRA.
Nickle Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $622K in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 2 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 74 qualified donees totalling $788K in 2024, the largest being $55K to Foothills Academy. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $62K in 2020 to $622K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
Nickle Family Foundation exists to provide grants to registered charities primarily in Calgary and area but from time to time elsewhere in Canada as well. Grants outside of the Calgary area are only made at the direction of members of the extended Nickle family. While we tend to emphasize social services grants are made in other areas including animal welfare. We have a focus on under-served communities such as Indigenous Canadians and those who identify as 2SLGBTQIA+
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $622K | $1.1M | — | — | $788K | $16.5M |
| 2023 | $541K | $970K | $176K | — | $759K | $14M |
| 2022 | $769K | $737K | $28K | $0 | $540K | $14.1M |
| 2021 | $927K | $711K | $120K | $0 | $553K | $16.3M |
| 2020 | $62K | $772K | $150K | $0 | $589K | $14.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $788K to 74 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Foothills Academy$55K
- Arts Commons$48K
- Children's Cottage Society$35K
- Pacekids Society for Children With Special Needs$35K
- Alberta Deaf and Hard of Hearing Society$30K
- University of Calgary$25K
- Bethany Care Foundation$25K
- Heritage Park Society$25K
- Safe Haven Foundation of Canada$20K
- Unison Society$20K
- Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra$20K
- Bright Lights for Africa Foundation$20K
- Leftovers Foundation$20K
- Bridges Social Development$20K
- Cochrane and Area Humane Society$20K
- Distress Centre Calgary$20K
- Cmha$20K
- Father Lacombe Care Foundation$20K
- The Downstage Performance Society$18K
- Helping Families Handle Cancer$18K
- Bow Valley College$13K
- Start2finish Foundation of Canada$12K
- Community Kitchen Program of Calgary$12K
- Storybook Theatre$11K
- Evergreen Theartre$11K
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
- $40,000–79,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions2
- Total compensation, all staff$143K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tim Aylesworth (director); James Young (director); William Haggeman (president/director); Mary Haggeman (director); Sarah Haggeman (director); Angela Rosenow (director); Jennifer Smith (director); Peter Sung (director); Michaela Seal (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Nickle Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119057727RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.