St. John's Legacy Foundation
Public foundation · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 789329745RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($216,246) as filed with the CRA.
St. John's Legacy Foundation is a public foundation based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.3M in revenue and $216K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 84% from other charities.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 76% 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 9 qualified donees totalling $167K in 2024, the largest being $100K to The Ukrainian Orthodox Parish of ST. John. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Advance religion and education and to advance the public's appreciation of the arts by providing for projects that focus on the Ukrainian Orthodox faith and Ukrainian language and culture in Canada; Receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal income there from from time to time to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of the income Tax Act (Canada); Undertake activities incidental and ancillary to the attainment of the above charitable purposes
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2023–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.3M | $216K | — | — | $209K | $5.7M |
| 2023 | $4.5M | $111K | — | — | $105K | $4.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $167K to 9 qualified donees:
- The Ukrainian Orthodox Parish of ST. John$100K
- Ukrainian Canadian Foundation of Taras Shevchenko$20K
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church of ST Mary Caslan-Noral$15K
- Holy Trinity Ukrainian Greek Orthodox Church$10K
- ST. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Congregation at Calgary$5,150
- Ukrainian Orthodox Church of ST. Anthony Edmonton$5,000
- Friends of Axios Mens Choir Society$5,000
- Ascension Ukrainian Orthodox Church at Radway$4,025
- Ukrainian Canadian Civil Liberties Foundation$3,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Emil Yereniuk (president); Victoria Martinuk (vice-president); Myroslava Chomiak (secretary); Gerald Kruhlak (treasurer); Tom Ewanchuk (director); Marshall Opyr (director); Dennis Kowalishin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from St. John's Legacy Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 789329745RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.