Samuel Hanen Society for Resource Conservation
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 896228764RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($323,074) as filed with the CRA.
Samuel Hanen Society for Resource Conservation is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $292K in revenue and $323K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 730 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 37% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 5 qualified donees totalling $218K in 2024, the largest being $100K to The Nature Trust of British Columbia. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $31K in 2020 to $292K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
Objects of the samuel hanen society as follows: 1) to promote and support educational and research programs relating to environmental matters as well as educators students and researchers devoted to such matter; 2) to promote and support programs to increase public awareness of environmental issues and problems their solutions and the relationship between man and the environment as part of a global ecosystem 3) to preserve protect and conserve agricultural and other lands and the resources and natural habitats thereon for the benefit of the future generations including managing such la…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $292K | $323K | $23K | — | $230K | $11.6M |
| 2023 | $292K | $278K | — | — | $215K | $10.9M |
| 2022 | $184K | $262K | — | — | $205K | $10.5M |
| 2021 | $452K | $245K | — | — | $189K | $11.2M |
| 2020 | $31K | $149K | $3,433 | — | $100K | $10.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $218K to 5 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jamie Blair (president); Christopher (kip) Woodward (director); Tim Swinton (director); Matthew Blair (treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Samuel Hanen Society for Resource Conservation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 896228764RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.