Northern Lights Scout Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 857822704RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($146,115) as filed with the CRA.
Northern Lights Scout Foundation is a public foundation based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $311K in revenue and $146K in expenditures.
In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $144.
Compared with 1,540 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 32% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $101K in 2024, the largest being $101K to Scouts Canada. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $62K in 2020 to $311K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
To promote the work of scouts canada in the northern lights council; - to provide financial support for the activities of scouts canada northern lights council or any scouting member or group as approved by the board of directors; - to establish and maintain a fund for the said purposes and to accept gifts of money and of real or personal property of all kinds whatever; and - to apply for the said purposes the capital property of and the income from the fund.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $311K | $146K | — | — | $115K | $2.6M |
| 2023 | $119K | $122K | — | — | $92K | $2.4M |
| 2022 | -$33K | $124K | — | — | $91K | $2.4M |
| 2021 | $419K | $131K | -$1,000 | — | $88K | $2.6M |
| 2020 | $62K | $122K | $24K | — | $63K | $2.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $101K to 1 qualified donee:
- Scouts Canada$101K
Received $144 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jill Gustafson (treasurer); Lyle Gustafson (board member); Linda Butler Dunn (secretary); Earl Wesa (board member); Chris Shantz (president); Brad Schmermund (board member); Shawn Hetherington (board member); Roxanne Ringette (board member); Scott Schram (board member); Michael Kalnay (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northern Lights Scout Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 857822704RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.