The Calgary Rotary Clubs Foundation
Public foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119218097RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-02-28. Split of total expenditures ($3,171,369) as filed with the CRA.
The Calgary Rotary Clubs Foundation is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending February 28, 2024, it reported $9.4M in revenue and $3.2M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 27% from donations. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $188K.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 48% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 11 qualified donees totalling $2.7M in 2024, the largest being $2.2M to The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $3.9M in 2020 to $9.4M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 17 names.
In its own words
The objective of the calgary rotary clubs foundation is to receive maintain and invest funds from members of the rotary clubs in calgary and to distribute funds to such rotary clubs for benevolent philanthropic charitable provident educational or other purposes.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $9.4M | $3.2M | $15K | — | $2.7M | $63M |
| 2023 | $703K | $429K | — | — | — | $56.7M |
| 2022 | $5.6M | $2.8M | — | — | $2.5M | $59.1M |
| 2021 | $6.3M | $2.6M | — | — | $2.3M | $56.4M |
| 2020 | $3.9M | $2.5M | — | — | $2.2M | $52.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.7M to 11 qualified donees:
- The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund$2.2M
- Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service$338K
- Rotary Club of Calgary North Foundation$89K
- Community Service Fund$44K
- Chinook Rotary Club Society$13K
- Emma Maternity House Society$7,500
- Shelterbox Canada$5,000
- Calgary Opera Association$2,600
- Rotary Club of Calgary Sarcee$1,110
- The Mustard Seed Society$1,000
- Veterans Association Food Bank$600
Received $188K from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Robert Brookwell (chairperson); Andrea Serink (secretary); Michael Ruttan (vice chairperson); Vernon Kimball (director); Greg Stevenson (director); Joe Fras (director); Eric Bennett (director); Alexander Dougall (director); Kevin Macleod (director); Robert Wolfson (director); Bud Watson (director); Garfield Ganong (director); Joe Klassen (director); Jeff Dworkin (director); Dale Shurvell (director); Sandra High (director); Darryl Gunn (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Calgary Rotary Clubs Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119218097RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.