The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation
Charitable organization · Calgary, Alberta · BN 135029825RR0001 · Community Resource Organizations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($6,496,294) as filed with the CRA.
The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under community resource organizations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $4.1M in revenue and $6.5M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 6% from donations, 42% from government, 49% from other charities. In 2024, 11 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $2.4M.
Compared with 299 community-service charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 80% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $120,000–159,999 range (3 positions in that band). The charity reported 19 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 25 qualified donees totalling $630K in 2024, the largest being $100K to The Pollution Probe Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $4.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
Alberta ecotrust foundation implements programs and projects to protect the environment which includes protecting the quality of air and water wildlife habitat parks and suburban land use. In addition to its own projects and in pursuit of its purpose the foundation holds and disburses funds for environmental initiatives to qualified grantees and often delivers programs in partners with other charities community organizations governments indigenous communities and business sector. This includes grant making initiating and funding projects and seeking additional investors donors and p…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $4.1M | $6.5M | $4.9M | $62K | $1.2M | $44.8M |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $750K | $670K | $26K | $94K | $41.3M |
| 2022 | $2.4M | $3.4M | $1.8M | $79K | $1.2M | $40.3M |
| 2021 | $2.3M | $2.5M | $2.3M | — | $1M | $42.8M |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $2M | $1.1M | $24K | $668K | $42.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $630K to 25 qualified donees:
- The Pollution Probe Foundation$100K
- Goodwill Industries of Alberta (registered Society)$54K
- The Board of Trustees of Edmonton School Division$50K
- Calgary Climate Hub Association$42K
- Community Energy Association$36K
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada$33K
- CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada$33K
- Miistakis Institute for the Rockies Inc.$29K
- Biosphere Institute of the Bow Valley$27K
- Riparian Management Society$27K
- Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation$25K
- Oldman WaterShed Council$25K
- Aruoha Centre Society$25K
- All One Sky Foundation$25K
- 13008037 Canada Association$25K
- Canadian Wildlife Federation$25K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$9,977
- Green Calgary Association$9,000
- Holistic MGMT Canada Council$8,000
- Small Change Fund$8,000
- Leftovers Foundation$4,500
- Friends of Fish Creek Provincial Park Society$3,905
- Alberta Lake Management Society$3,525
- Trec Charitable Foundation$2,000
- Sierra Club Canada Foundation$1,169
Received $2.4M from 11 charities:
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$950K
- The J W McConnell Family Foundation$708K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$300K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$200K
- The Peter Gilgan Foundation$150K
- RBC Foundation$125K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$4,725
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,889
- The Calgary Foundation$2,314
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$846
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9997 positions
- Permanent full-time positions19
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Irene Herremans (treasurer); Rebecca Fissel Schaefer (director); Mark Bennett (co-chair); Shafraz Kaba (director); Norine Ambrose (director); Thomas Holloway (director); Eric Westrum (co-chair); James Stauch (director); Jason Unger (director); Matt Grace (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 135029825RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.