The Foundation of St. Joseph Seminary and Newman Theological College
Public foundation · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 893481465RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-07-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,894,400) as filed with the CRA.
The Foundation of St. Joseph Seminary and Newman Theological College is a public foundation based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending July 31, 2024, it reported $8.1M in revenue and $2.9M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 31% from donations, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 22 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $674K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 52% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $2.4M in 2024, the largest being $2.3M to Newman Theological College ST. Josephs Seminary. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.8M in 2020 to $8.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 6 names.
In its own words
The activities of The Foundation of St. Joseph Seminary and Newman Theological College are dedicated to the advancement of theological education the priestly formation of seminarians and other purposes of a charitable nature beneficial to St. Joseph Seminary and Newman Theological College and the community as a whole. Its activities for the year were to solicit raise receive record and disburse funds to the above organization to support the formation of seminarians at St. Joseph Seminary and the theological education of students at Newman Theological College. As part of its efforts to rais…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $8.1M | $2.9M | $104K | $159K | $2.4M | $33.3M |
| 2023 | $4.8M | $2.8M | $188K | $144K | $2.3M | $28.1M |
| 2022 | $4.3M | $2.6M | $122K | $110K | $2.2M | $26.1M |
| 2021 | $2.8M | $2.1M | $130K | $89K | $1.7M | $28.5M |
| 2020 | $2.8M | $2.1M | $89K | $47K | $1.7M | $25.3M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $2.4M to 2 qualified donees:
Received $674K from 22 charities:
- The Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton$511K
- Carmelite Nuns of Western Canada$50K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$28K
- Sisters of St. Joseph of Chambéry Corporation$20K
- Aqueduct Foundation$15K
- Allan Street Foundation$15K
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$10K
- Canadahelps Canadon$9,119
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$5,902
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$4,024
- Serra Foundation of Canada$3,000
- La Corporation archiépiscopale catholique romaine de Saint-Boniface$1,000
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$704
- The John H and Marie Koziak Family Foundation$500
- Oeuvres Caritatives des Filles de Jesus Canada$500
- The Generalate of the Sisters of the Precious Blood$450
- Catholic Sisters of the Holy Name of Smokey Lake$300
- The Order of ST. Benedict$100
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$14
- Les Soeurs de Notre-Dame d'Auvergne—
- Les Missionnaires Oblates de Saint-Boniface—
- The Sisters of Instruction of the Child Jesus—
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$134K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Sylvain Casavant (sjs rector); John Caputo (member at large); Scott Venne (member at large); Keith Johns (member at large); Richard Iwuc (member at large); Karen Badley (ntc interim president).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Foundation of St. Joseph Seminary and Newman Theological College’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 893481465RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.