Charity BreakdownCanadian charity filings, itemized

The Calgary Foundation

Public foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 108074436RR0001 · Foundations · website

Your $100, itemizedThe Calgary FoundationFiscal year ended March 31, 2024
Gifts to other charities$86
Management & admin$8
Charitable programs$3
Fundraising$3
TOTAL$100
Registered

Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($87,506,243) as filed with the CRA.

The Calgary Foundation is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $174M in revenue and $87.5M in expenditures.

Its funding that year was roughly 44% from donations. In 2024, 42 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $3.2M.

Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was lower than 90% of that peer group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $300,000–349,999 range (2 positions in that band). The charity reported 49 permanent full-time positions.

As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1,192 qualified donees totalling $75.3M in 2024, the largest being $5.4M to The Governors of The University of Calgary. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $55.6M in 2020 to $174M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 16 names.

In its own words

The Calgary Foundation carried out its charitable purpose through the ongoing administration of its granting programs. While the Foundation provides grants to support charitable activity across the entire sector it has a particular focus on five priority areas: Reducing Poverty (relief of poverty); Encouraging Mental Health (promotion of health); Living a Creative Life (advancing the public’s appreciation of the arts); Pursuing a Sustainable Future (protection of the environment) and Strengthening Relations with Indigenous Communities (upholding human rights). The Foundation also provided Stu…

Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.

The ledger, 2020–2024

YearRevenueSpendingProgramsFundraisingGifts outNet assets
2024$174M$87.5M$2.2M$2.4M$75.2M$1.2B
2023$142.3M$72.5M$1.8M$2.1M$61.3M$1.1B
2022$83.4M$72.3M$1.5M$2.1M$61.5M$1.1B
2021$123.5M$76.9M$1.2M$1.8M$66.8M$1.1B
2020$55.6M$64.9M$1.1M$1.9M$54.9M$877.9M

Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.

Money between charities, 2024

Granted $75.3M to 1,192 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:

Full grant ledger — all 1,192 grants

Received $3.2M from 42 charities:

As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.

What it pays

Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:

  • $300,000–349,9992 positions
  • $200,000–249,9991 position
  • $160,000–199,9992 positions
  • $120,000–159,9995 positions
  • Permanent full-time positions49
  • Total compensation, all staff$6.5M

Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.

Directors & trustees (2024)

Denise Bright (treasurer); Sherry Ferranato (secretary); Narmin Ismail-Teja (vice chair); Melanie McDonald (director); Blaine Lennox (chair); Hugh Williamson (director); Ken Lima-Coelho (director); Michael Mezei (director); Chima Nkemdirim (director); Julianna Spiropoulos (director); Ivor Ruste (director); Kirby Redwood (director); Alice Lam (director); Jamie Leong-Huxley (director); Susan O'Brien (director); David Phillips (director).

As listed on its 2024 return.

Check the source

Every figure on this page is from The Calgary Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 108074436RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.