Northwestern Alberta Foundation
Public foundation · Grande Prairie, Alberta · BN 896544343RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,712,297) as filed with the CRA.
Northwestern Alberta Foundation is a public foundation based in Grande Prairie, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $3.1M in revenue and $1.7M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 18% from donations, 9% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $90K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 44% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $80,000–119,999 range. The charity reported 3 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 94 qualified donees totalling $651K in 2024, the largest being $52K to Maskwa Medical Center (Canada) Inc.. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
The northwestern alberta foundation supports the community in a variety of ways. We are unique because we encompass all areas of community including arts & culture education health environment social services seniors sports & recreation disaster relief and children & youth. Everything we do is designed to help build more vibrant healthy and resilient communities across the entire northwestern alberta region. We accomplish our work by harnessing the gifts of energy ideas time and donations of caring residents to make meaningful and lasting impacts. We work at developing relationship…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.1M | $1.7M | $455K | $76K | $993K | $14.6M |
| 2023 | $3.7M | $1.6M | $400K | $71K | $964K | $13.2M |
| 2022 | $678K | $1.5M | $402K | $62K | $904K | $11.1M |
| 2021 | $2.5M | $940K | $401K | $54K | $368K | $11.9M |
| 2020 | $2.7M | $1.9M | $321K | $56K | $1.4M | $10.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $651K to 94 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Maskwa Medical Center (Canada) Inc.$52K
- Compassion House Foundation$52K
- County of Grande Prairie No. 1$40K
- Municipal District of Greenview No. 16$37K
- Town of High Level$36K
- City of Grande Prairie$36K
- Peace River Art Club$31K
- Riverside Compassion Home Society$26K
- Grade Three Reading Academy Society$20K
- Northwestern Polytechnic$20K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$15K
- Society of First Baptist Fellowship Peace River$13K
- Scientists in School$10K
- Assumption Region Community Policing Society$10K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$9,945
- Peace River School Division No. 10$9,685
- North Peace Youth Support Association$9,090
- Peace Regional Outreach Student and Daycare Support Society$9,000
- Alberta Northwest Palliative CARE Society$8,580
- Cairn Housing Society$8,150
- Town of Fox Creek$8,000
- The Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 54 Poppy Fund$7,500
- Sport Central Association$6,034
- The Grande Prairie Boys' Choir Society$6,000
- The Sexsmith and District Museum Society$5,850
Received $90K from 6 charities:
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
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions3
- Total compensation, all staff$292K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Todd Russell (director); Todd Tremblay (treasurer); Ralph Wohlgemuth (director); Andrew Boylan (director); Eunice Friesen (director); Simon Bossen (director); Travis Jensen (director); Stephanie Carlisle (director); Holly Handfield (director); Aimee Savoury (director); Whitney Wild (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Northwestern Alberta Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896544343RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.