Praespero - An Autoimmune Research Fund
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 775303720RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,991,829) as filed with the CRA.
Praespero - An Autoimmune Research Fund is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2M in revenue and $2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 100% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 60% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $1.5M in 2024, the largest being $759K to University of California San Diego (prescribed University Ou. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.3M in 2020 to $2M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Praespero's misison is to facilitate innovation collaboration and cross-disciplinary researach that will lead us to the root causes of autoimmune disease.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2M | $2M | $227K | — | $1.5M | $427K |
| 2023 | $1.6M | $1.7M | — | — | $1.4M | $410K |
| 2022 | $1.3M | $1M | — | — | $800K | $547K |
| 2021 | $513K | $838K | — | — | $810K | $278K |
| 2020 | $1.3M | $778K | — | — | $750K | $643K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.5M to 8 qualified donees:
- University of California San Diego (prescribed University Ou$759K
- New York University (prescribed University Outside Canada)$150K
- The University of British Columbia$150K
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$100K
- Sunnybrook Research Institute$100K
- University of Arizona (prescribed University Outside Canada)$100K
- University of Utah (prescribed University Outside Canada)$100K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$75K
Received $2M from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joao Dasilva (director); Whitney Dueck (director); Laurie Venning (director); Nassar Al-Huraibi (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Praespero - An Autoimmune Research Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 775303720RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.