The Flanagan Foundation
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 832090211RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($3,660,272) as filed with the CRA.
The Flanagan Foundation is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $10.3M in revenue and $3.7M in expenditures.
Compared with 380 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 57% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 33 qualified donees totalling $3.3M in 2024, the largest being $1.3M to The University of Lethbridge. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $5.6M in 2020 to $10.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The purpose of the foundation is to maintain a fund and to apply all the income there from annually to qualified donees under provisions of the income tax act
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $10.3M | $3.7M | — | — | $3.3M | $74.3M |
| 2023 | $6.1M | $3.7M | — | — | $3.4M | $67.6M |
| 2022 | -$2.5M | $2.6M | — | — | $2.3M | $65.2M |
| 2021 | $13.2M | $2.4M | — | — | $2.1M | $70.3M |
| 2020 | $5.6M | $1.9M | — | — | $1.6M | $59.4M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.3M to 33 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- The University of Lethbridge$1.3M
- Ontario Nature Inc.$200K
- Rozsa Foundation$150K
- The Governing Council of the University of Toronto$100K
- The Learning Enrichment Foundation$100K
- Windmill Microlending$100K
- Women's Legal Education and Action Fund Inc./fonds d'Action et d'Education Juridiques pour les Femmes Inc.$100K
- CARE Canada$75K
- Fear Is Not Love Society$75K
- Luminous Voices Music Society$75K
- Rosebud Legacy Society$75K
- Cathedral Bluffs Symphony Orchestra Inc.$75K
- Association of Early Childhood Educators Ontario$75K
- Montreal Holocaust Museum$50K
- Myriad Canada Foundation$50K
- Sled Island Arts Fellowship$50K
- The Samara Centre for Democracy Le Centre Samara pour la démocratie$50K
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$50K
- Calgary Learns Association$50K
- Thunder Woman Healing Lodge Society$50K
- University of Victoria$50K
- First Book/le Premier Livre$50K
- Code$50K
- Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women/institut Canadien de Recherches S$50K
- Academics without Borders$50K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jacqueline Flanagan (president and chairman); Natasha Pashak (secretary-treasurer); Kathleen Timms (director); Linda Flanagan (director); Donna Fremont (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Flanagan Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 832090211RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.