The Bert and Shari Frizzell Family Foundation
Private foundation · Bedford, Nova Scotia · BN 773846332RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($79,121) as filed with the CRA.
The Bert and Shari Frizzell Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Bedford, Nova Scotia, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $46K in revenue and $79K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 3,025 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 49% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 9 qualified donees totalling $73K in 2024, the largest being $25K to Acadia University. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2020 to $46K in 2024.
In its own words
The foundation will accept gifts donations bequests and legacies of every desciption from the settlor or from any other person ('contributions') will receive and maintain contributions as part of the trust fund and will apply all or par of the principal of the trust fund from time to time to registered charities or qualified donees as defined in the income tax act (canada).
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $46K | $79K | — | — | $73K | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $25K | $68K | — | — | $62K | $1.3M |
| 2022 | $25K | $76K | — | — | $69K | $1.3M |
| 2021 | $39K | $79K | — | — | $64K | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $1.4M | $30K | — | — | $27K | $1.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $73K to 9 qualified donees:
- Acadia University$25K
- Hants County Christmas Angels Society$16K
- We Are Young Association$10K
- Family SOS Association$7,000
- Veith House$5,000
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$5,000
- Calvin Presbyterian Church$3,000
- The Dalhousie Medical Research Foundation$1,000
- National Sport Trust Fund$1,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Bert and Shari Frizzell Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 773846332RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.