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.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- From other charities$2,000,000
- Receipted donations$8,784
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
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.