The Colin B Glassco Charitable Foundation for Children
Public foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 899290241RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,431,049) as filed with the CRA.
The Colin B Glassco Charitable Foundation for Children is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $763K in revenue and $1.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 47% from donations, 40% from other charities. In 2024, 27 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $477K.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 65% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $41K in 2024, the largest being $20K to Canuck Place Children's Hospice. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $221K in 2020 to $763K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation identifies financially supports and participates in medical and educational projects in canada and overseas
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $763K | $1.4M | $1.3M | — | $41K | $1.2M |
| 2023 | $736K | $2.1M | $2M | — | $36K | $1.8M |
| 2021 | $1.6M | $1.3M | $943K | — | $334K | $4.4M |
| 2020 | $221K | $1M | $906K | — | $97K | $4.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $41K to 3 qualified donees:
Received $477K from 27 charities:
- Canadahelps Canadon$81K
- Canadahelps Canadon$81K
- Hamilton Community Foundation$80K
- The Calgary Foundation$53K
- Burlington Community Foundation$32K
- Carthy Foundation$28K
- Canada Gives$20K
- The Donald F. Hunter Charitable Foundation$20K
- Bonnie & Daryl Howard Charitable Foundation$12K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$11K
- Aqueduct Foundation$10K
- The Anderson Brenner Foundation$10K
- The Stone Creek Charitable Foundation$10K
- Toronto Foundation$6,500
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$5,000
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$3,000
- The Lang Family Foundation$2,500
- The Derick Brenninkmeyer Charitable Foundation$2,500
- BenefAction Foundation$2,000
- Lillian and Leroy Page Foundation$1,826
- The Winnipeg Foundation$1,500
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$1,129
- The Anderson Family Foundation$1,000
- Diane And Daryl Howard Charitable Foundation$500
- United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes$500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Colin B. Glassco (director); Debbie Norman (director); Russell McKinnon (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Colin B Glassco Charitable Foundation for Children’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 899290241RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.