Norris Family Foundation
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 841055619RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,176,879) as filed with the CRA.
Norris 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 $3.8M in revenue and $1.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 61% 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 50% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 16 qualified donees totalling $1M in 2024, the largest being $238K to Calgary Stampede Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $531K in 2020 to $3.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.8M | $1.2M | — | — | $1M | $21.6M |
| 2023 | $1.9M | $852K | — | — | $679K | $17.9M |
| 2022 | $2.6M | $563K | — | — | $393K | $16.4M |
| 2021 | $2M | $642K | — | — | $513K | $15.7M |
| 2020 | $531K | $774K | — | — | $645K | $13.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1M to 16 qualified donees:
- Calgary Stampede Foundation$238K
- Canadian Cancer Society$200K
- Fear Is Not Love Society$100K
- PCC Prostate Cancer Centre$60K
- Luna Child and Youth Advocacy Centre LTD.$50K
- Calgary Health Foundation$50K
- Wellspring Alberta$50K
- Rundle College Society$50K
- Pine River Foundation$50K
- Closer to Home Community Services Society$50K
- Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology$35K
- Calgary Counselling Centre$25K
- Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada$20K
- International Justice Mission Canada / Mission Internationale de Justice-Canada$20K
- Diabetes Research Institute Foundation Canada Inc.$20K
- Faith Food Bank Society$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$20K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Alan Norris (director); Shelly Norris (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Norris Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 841055619RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.