The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act
Public foundation · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 122437072RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($49,928,876) as filed with the CRA.
The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act is a public foundation based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $160.9M in revenue and $49.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 13% from donations, 5% from other charities. In 2024, 35 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $7M.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 26% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $300,000–349,999 range. The charity reported 30 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 845 qualified donees totalling $33.7M in 2024, the largest being $1.9M to Bowstrings Heritage Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $66.7M in 2020 to $160.9M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 12 names.
In its own words
Edmonton community foundation (ecf) exists to help the people of the edmonton area by encouraging philanthropy and funding charitable activities. Through contributions from donors ecf assembles permanent endowment funds so that the investment returns support our community in perpetuity. Ecf’s grant programs: contribute to making edmonton a more vibrant caring sustainable healthy smart active and engaged community; make a visible and lasting difference in the greater edmonton are; offer timesly and constructive support to the charitable sector; honour the intention and purpose identified b…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $160.9M | $49.9M | $3.1M | $2M | $33.7M | $864.3M |
| 2023 | $103.7M | $44.1M | $3.2M | $2M | $31.8M | $750.9M |
| 2022 | $24.1M | $47.4M | $3.1M | $2.7M | $33.1M | $690.7M |
| 2021 | $133.4M | $37.4M | $2.7M | $2M | $26.9M | $715.4M |
| 2020 | $66.7M | $43.1M | $2.6M | $1.3M | $34.2M | $624.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $33.7M to 845 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Bowstrings Heritage Foundation$1.9M
- Edmonton Opera Association$1.7M
- The Citadel Theatre$1M
- The Governors of the University of Alberta$971K
- The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation$950K
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$863K
- Edmonton City Centre Church Corporation$722K
- Art Gallery of Alberta Society$714K
- Edmonton and Area Land Trust$582K
- Ihuman Youth Society$492K
- Jewish Federation of Edmonton$477K
- The Edmonton Arts Council Society$476K
- Banff Canmore Community Foundation$475K
- Edmonton Symphony Society$436K
- Council for The Advancement of African Canadians in Alberta$407K
- BGC Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton and Area Society$366K
- ST. Michael's Extended CARE Centre Society$359K
- Bissell Centre$320K
- The Sign of Hope Society Archdiocese of Edmonton$295K
- YWCA Edmonton$293K
- The Boyle Street Service Society$286K
- Y.e.s.s.: Youth Emergency Shelter Society of Edmonton$282K
- Alberta Cancer Foundation$276K
- Edmonton Gleaners Association$231K
- Wood Buffalo Community Foundation$221K
Received $7M from 35 charities:
- Oriole Charitable Foundation$5.1M
- Canadahelps Canadon$325K
- Canadahelps Canadon$325K
- Canmore and Area Health CARE Foundation$218K
- The Stollery Charitable Foundation$190K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$127K
- The Winnipeg Foundation$104K
- Edmonton Community Legal Centre$100K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$80K
- The Junior League of Edmonton$50K
- Carthy Foundation$50K
- Community Foundations of Canada$43K
- Wood Buffalo Community Foundation$42K
- Suncor Energy Foundation/fondation Suncor Energie$40K
- The Mancap Foundation$38K
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$37K
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$20K
- The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation$17K
- Central Baptist Church$12K
- Metro Cinema Society$12K
- Make a Dream Come True (lions) Society$10K
- Society for New Music in Edmonton$6,296
- Doane Grant Thornton Foundation$5,000
- The Writers' Guild of Alberta$4,599
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$3,899
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $300,000–349,9991 position
- $200,000–249,9991 position
- $160,000–199,9992 positions
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- Permanent full-time positions30
- Total compensation, all staff$3.6M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Elisa Hung (chair); Leon Zupan (vice-chair); Melissa Timbres (secretary); Kwaku Adu (director); Linda Banister (director); Jonathan Chia (director); Leanne Krawchuk (director); Filip Ksiazkiewicz (director); Sam Narayan (director); Jai Parihar (director); Gail Stepanik-Keber (director); Drew Thomson (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 122437072RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.