The Jessica Martel Memorial Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Morinville, Alberta · BN 814989505RR0001 · Organizations Relieving Poverty
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($2,288,503) as filed with the CRA.
The Jessica Martel Memorial Foundation is a charitable organization based in Morinville, Alberta, classified by the CRA under organizations relieving poverty. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $2.8M in revenue and $2.3M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 12% from donations, 62% from government. Government funding is the majority of its budget. In 2024, 18 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $611K.
Compared with 1,618 poverty-relief institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 18% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group. Its highest-paid positions fell in the $80,000–119,999 range (4 positions in that band). The charity reported 17 permanent full-time positions.
Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
To provide emergency assistance to those dealing with domestic violence and to raise funds to build and run a shelter in the morinville alberta area.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.8M | $2.3M | $1.8M | $41K | — | $3.9M |
| 2023 | $2.5M | $2.2M | $1.8M | $43K | — | $3.4M |
| 2022 | $2.2M | $1.8M | $1.4M | $67K | — | $3.2M |
| 2021 | $1.5M | $1.4M | $53K | $31K | — | $3.3M |
| 2020 | $2.3M | $1.1M | $38K | $2,000 | — | $3.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Received $611K from 18 charities:
- Canada Gives$500K
- Edmonton Realtors' Charitable Foundation$30K
- ATB Investor Services Foundation$20K
- The Leder Charitable Foundation$13K
- Canadahelps Canadon$12K
- Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health$9,030
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$7,963
- Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Commandery of Edmonton$5,000
- ATCO Electric Epic$2,800
- Kingdom Church of St. Albert$2,500
- PayPal Giving Fund Canada$2,332
- Calahoo Alliance Church$1,713
- Stony Plain & District Crime Prevention Association$1,500
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$1,285
- Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue$873
- ST. Albert Evangelical Lutheran Church$667
- The Board of Trustees of Sturgeon School Division No 24$253
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$100
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $80,000–119,9994 positions
- $40,000–79,9996 positions
- Permanent full-time positions17
- Total compensation, all staff$1.7M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Christine Moore (president); Wendy Dugas (vice president); Michael Pascuzzo (secretary); Bobi-Rae Miller (treasurer); Tansie Horncastle (director); Teodora O'Donnell (director); Jacob Ohe (director); Erick Ambtman (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Jessica Martel Memorial Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 814989505RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.