Sage Roots Foundation
Public foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 821821345RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($184,804) as filed with the CRA.
Sage Roots Foundation is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $372K in revenue and $185K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 15% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 8% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $55K in 2024, the largest being $25K to Canadian Association for Disabled Skiing-Calgary. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $143K in 2020 to $372K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation is established to carry out objects of an exclusively charitable nature and without limiting the foregoing the following; (a) to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and icnome therefrom from time to time to wualified fonees as defines in subsection 149.11(1) of the income tax act (canada) that promote the relief of conistions associated iwth disabilities or various other charitable purposes; (b) to relieve conditions associated with disability by providing athletic and recreational programs to support the physical mental and emot…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $372K | $185K | $25K | $27K | $55K | $2.7M |
| 2023 | $193K | $184K | — | $14K | $50K | $2.5M |
| 2022 | $54K | $95K | $25K | $63K | — | $2.5M |
| 2021 | $137K | $36K | $25K | $7,842 | — | $2.5M |
| 2020 | $143K | $41K | $25K | $16K | — | $2.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $55K to 3 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$27K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Michael Binnion (president); Maria Binnion (secretary-treasurer); Lesley Binnion (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sage Roots Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 821821345RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.