Sons of Norway Foundation in Canada
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 892070640RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($144,485) as filed with the CRA.
Sons of Norway Foundation in Canada is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $181K in revenue and $144K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 79% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $191.
Compared with 1,764 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 82% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group.
It reported gifts to 4 qualified donees totalling $888 in 2024, the largest being $500 to Alberni Valley Hospice Society. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
Provide bursaries for post-secondary under-graduate studies and apprenticeships as well as gifts to qualified donees and grants to cultural and not-for-profit groups and amateur sports groups in support of their cultural and charitable programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $181K | $144K | $9,000 | $0 | $130K | $754K |
| 2023 | $48K | $43K | $11K | — | $22K | $753K |
| 2022 | $49K | $39K | $31K | — | $31K | $692K |
| 2021 | $91K | $61K | $56K | — | $56K | $682K |
| 2020 | $256K | $234K | $9,972 | — | $219K | $652K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $888 to 4 qualified donees:
Received $191 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Tore Pettersen (vice-president); Patricia Schwartz (secretary); Erik Brochmann (director); Gloria Benazic (president); Ronald Reine (treasurer); Devon Ward (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Sons of Norway Foundation in Canada’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 892070640RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.