The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund
Private foundation · ST Albert, Alberta · BN 119230944RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,759,699) as filed with the CRA.
The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund is a private foundation based in ST Albert, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.9M in revenue and $1.8M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 81% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 28 qualified donees totalling $1.7M in 2024, the largest being $200K to The Norquest College Foundation. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 9 names.
In its own words
The charity provides assistance to charitable or benevolent organizations which are registered with the canada revenue agency.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.9M | $1.8M | — | — | $1.7M | $1.1M |
| 2023 | $1.8M | $2M | — | — | $2M | $983K |
| 2022 | $1.8M | $2M | $31K | — | $2M | $1.2M |
| 2021 | $1.7M | $1.8M | $34K | — | $1.8M | $1.4M |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.6M | $38K | — | $1.6M | $1.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.7M to 28 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The Norquest College Foundation$200K
- Alberta Lung Association$200K
- The Capital CARE Foundation$150K
- Francis Winspear Centre for Music$150K
- The Edmonton Space & Science Foundation$150K
- Alberta Diabetes Foundation$133K
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$125K
- Alberta Cancer Foundation$105K
- Covenant Foundation$100K
- Make-A-Wish Foundation of Canada$50K
- University Hospitals Foundation$50K
- Edmonton Catholic Schools Foundation$41K
- The George Spady Centre Society$37K
- Kids With Cancer Society of Northern Alberta$36K
- Muscular Dystrophy Canada / Dystrophie musculaire Canada$35K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$25K
- The Sunshine Foundation of Canada$20K
- Shelter Movers$18K
- Kids Kottage Foundation$16K
- Kids on Track Association of Edmonton$16K
- Hope Air$15K
- Diabetes Canada Diabète Canada$15K
- Basically Babies LTD.$10K
- Society of Saint Vincent de Paul Edmonton Central Council$10K
- The Young Men's Christian Association of Edmonton$7,500
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Joy Arntzen (trustee); Laura Manz (trustee); Robert Morrison (chair); Damir Begovic (vice chair); Gail Hickmore (trustee); Eric Lewis (trustee); Tyler Girodat (trustee); Derek McIntyre (vice chair); Michael Boyd (trustee/secretary treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119230944RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.