Purple Platypus
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 785221680RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($162,533) as filed with the CRA.
Purple Platypus is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $116K in revenue and $163K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $125K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Momentum Community Economic Development Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3,306 in 2020 to $116K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
1. To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of the income tax act (canada) r.s.c. 1985 c.1 (5th supp.) as amended form time to time. 2. To undertake activities ancillary and incidental to the attainment of the above mentioned charitable purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $116K | $163K | — | — | $116K | $2.3M |
| 2023 | $84K | $124K | — | — | $94K | $2.4M |
| 2022 | $67K | $108K | — | — | $79K | $2.4M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $88K | — | — | $65K | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $3,306 | $71K | — | — | $51K | $1.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $125K to 10 qualified donees:
- Momentum Community Economic Development Society$50K
- Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation$20K
- Kids Sports Canada National Office$10K
- Calgary Young Men's Christian Association$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$10K
- Contemporary Calgary Arts Society$10K
- Alberta Cancer Foundation$8,000
- Calgary Silver Linings Foundation$5,000
- The Montreal Canadiens Children's Foundation$1,500
- Queen Elizabeth II Health Sciences Centre Foundation Inc.$150
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2023)
Karen Radford (trustee); Jason Grelowski (trustee).
As listed on its 2023 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Purple Platypus’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 785221680RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.