The Brawn Family Foundation.
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 860545292RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-11-30. Split of total expenditures ($2,585,907) as filed with the CRA.
The Brawn Family Foundation. is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending November 30, 2024, it reported $2.1M in revenue and $2.6M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 19% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 54% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 100% of that peer group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 14 qualified donees totalling $2.3M in 2024, the largest being $1.5M to The Calgary Zoological Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.1M in 2020 to $2.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Supporting capital projects and programs that impact the Calgary and surrounding area by generating opportunities for its citizens.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.1M | $2.6M | $0 | $0 | $2.3M | $36.5M |
| 2023 | $3.1M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.5M | $36.9M |
| 2022 | $2M | $1.7M | — | — | $1.4M | $35.7M |
| 2021 | $9.6M | $1.3M | — | — | $1.1M | $35.4M |
| 2020 | $1.1M | $1.1M | — | — | $941K | $27.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.3M to 14 qualified donees:
- The Calgary Zoological Society$1.5M
- Canada West Foundation$150K
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$133K
- Lougheed House Conservation Society$125K
- Canadian Global Affairs Institute$115K
- Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology$105K
- Breakthrough T1D Canada/Percée DT1 Canada$100K
- The Bow Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals$12K
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$10K
- Red Deer Hospice Society$10K
- Canadian FOP Network$5,000
- Alberta Cancer Foundation$5,000
- Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund$5,000
- Vertigo Theatre Society$2,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Kelley Buckley (president); Dean Brawn (director); Patti DeDominicis (director); Garry Henderson (director); Robert Brawn (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Brawn Family Foundation.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 860545292RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.