Renfrew Educational Services Foundation
Public foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 777625492RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,110,026) as filed with the CRA.
Renfrew Educational Services Foundation is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $3.8M in revenue and $1.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 24% from donations. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.4M.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 11% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $634K in 2024, the largest being $634K to Renfrew Educational Services Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $3.8M in 2024.
In its own words
Fundraising activities to raise money for various needy projects
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $3.8M | $1.1M | — | $218K | $634K | $16.9M |
| 2023 | $2M | $894K | — | $169K | $451K | $14.3M |
| 2022 | $62K | $574K | — | $1,893 | $437K | $13.2M |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $537K | — | $8,986 | $405K | $13.7M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $688K | — | $106K | $395K | $12M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $634K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $2.4M from 18 charities:
- Canada Gives$1.1M
- Three Sisters Charitable Foundation$458K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$419K
- Cal Wenzel Family Foundation$100K
- The Shields Foundation$50K
- The Arthur J E Child Foundation$50K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- Canadahelps Canadon$43K
- Calgary Flames Foundation$25K
- Clearwater Charitable Foundation$23K
- The Donald And Eleanor Seaman Family Foundation$20K
- Kanovsky Family Foundation$20K
- The Lecky Foundation$10K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$10K
- Aqueduct Foundation$4,000
- United Way of Calgary and Area$1,984
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$1,810
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$25
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Renfrew Educational Services Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 777625492RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.