The Burns Memorial Fund for Children
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 129252847RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,002,655) as filed with the CRA.
The Burns Memorial Fund for Children is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.1M in revenue and $1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 78% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.4M.
Compared with 1,125 poverty-relief charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 88% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 22 qualified donees totalling $285K in 2024, the largest being $15K to The Calgary John Howard Society.
In its own words
The burns memorial fund for children act 1970 allows the trustees of the burns memorial fund for children in their sole discretion to: direct and expend any portion or such portions of the fund as they consider advisable for the benefit of any persons under 21 years of age and resident in the city of calgary whom the trustees consider to be the need and worthy of assistance including the application and expenditure of any portion or such portions of the fund as they consider advisable to any registered canadian charitable organization for the purpose of providing assistance to any such chi…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.1M | $1M | $694K | — | $285K | $1.5M |
| 2023 | $901K | $846K | $429K | — | $395K | $1.2M |
| 2022 | $781K | $662K | $539K | — | $101K | $1M |
| 2021 | $1M | $748K | $655K | — | $76K | $1.2M |
| 2020 | $797K | $748K | $600K | — | $132K | $1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $285K to 22 qualified donees:
- The Calgary John Howard Society$15K
- Youth Central Society$15K
- Two Wheel View - Calgary LTD.$15K
- Trellis Society for Community Impact$15K
- Women in Need Society of Calgary$15K
- Women's Centre of Calgary$15K
- Mount Royal University Foundation$15K
- The Immigrant Education Society (ties)$15K
- Kindred Connections Society$15K
- The Canlearn Society for Persons With Learning Difficulties$15K
- Helping Families Handle Cancer Foundation$15K
- Discovery House Family Violence Prevention Society$15K
- Calgary Philharmonic Society$15K
- The Brenda Strafford Foundation LTD.$15K
- Hull Services$15K
- Scientists in School$13K
- Inn From the Cold Society$12K
- The Calgary Between Friends Club-Fun and Fellowship for Disabled Youth$10K
- Carya Society of Calgary$9,700
- The Burns Memorial Fund for Children$7,500
- Calgary Quest Children's Society$5,000
- I Challenge Diabetes$2,800
Received $1.4M from 12 charities:
- The Burns Memorial Trust$578K
- The Calgary Foundation$312K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$170K
- Carthy Foundation$155K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$100K
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundation$60K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- The Burns Memorial Fund for Children$7,500
- BenefAction Foundation$3,527
- Canadahelps Canadon$3,270
- United Way of Calgary and Area$2,500
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$1,223
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$269K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Burns Memorial Fund for Children’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 129252847RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.