The Brenda Strafford Foundation LTD.
Publicly funded institution · Calgary, Alberta · BN 105198873RR0001 · Core Health Care · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($118,310,472) as filed with the CRA.
The Brenda Strafford Foundation LTD. is a charitable organization based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under core health care. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $114.7M in revenue and $118.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 63% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 15 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $196K.
Compared with 538 health institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 63% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 507 permanent full-time positions.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $500K in 2024, the largest being $500K to University of Calgary. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 11 names.
In its own words
Canadian: 1. Operating long-term care facilities 2. Operating seniors assisted living facilities 3. Operating center for prevention of domestic violence 4. Operating an adult day program 5. Operating a home that provides transitional housing for families Foreign: 6. Haiti-operating an medical center 7. Jamaica - Supporting a medical center and care home 8. Dominica - Supporting the operation of an eye clinic
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $114.7M | $118.3M | $110.3M | $387K | $514K | $141M |
| 2023 | $111M | $110.2M | $104.2M | $181K | $400K | $142.3M |
| 2022 | $103.1M | $107.7M | $102.2M | $91K | $1.5M | $140.6M |
| 2021 | $88.5M | $77.6M | $72.5M | $73K | $1.4M | $146.5M |
| 2020 | $82.9M | $79.6M | $74.8M | $92K | $1.4M | $141.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $500K to 1 qualified donee:
- University of Calgary$500K
Received $196K from 15 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$105K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$17K
- The Burns Memorial Fund for Children$15K
- The Calgary Foundation$12K
- Fondation Miroir Foundation$10K
- Spruce Meadows Leg Up Foundation$10K
- Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada$7,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$6,000
- Aqueduct Foundation$4,890
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,694
- BenefAction Foundation$2,500
- The Evangelical Covenant Church of Calgary$1,500
- United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de l'Ontario$1,000
- My Tribute Gift Foundation—
- Faith Food Bank Society—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions507
- Total compensation, all staff$80M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Clayton Sissons (chair); Norma Jackson (director); Roxanne Sissons (director); Hilary McMeekin (director); Gary Duke (director); Noreen Linton (director); Fazilah Shariff (director); Tim Stauft (director); Joel Vorra (director); Rajesh Ghosh (director); Dilpriya Kaur Mangat (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Brenda Strafford Foundation LTD.’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 105198873RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.