The Klemke Foundation
Private foundation · Sturgeon County, Alberta · BN 128052743RR0001 · Support of Religion
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($49,428,428) as filed with the CRA.
The Klemke Foundation is a private foundation based in Sturgeon County, Alberta, classified by the CRA under support of religion. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.5M in revenue and $49.4M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 2,238 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 0% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 3 qualified donees totalling $38K in 2024, the largest being $25K to The Great Commission Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $38K in 2020 to $1.5M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
Three employees translating tv programs and training dvds. 99% of funding flowed through canadian charitable organizations; 1% of funding was with qualified foreign organizations who performed our projects under agency agreements evangelistic training programs material production purchase and distribution conducting on-line discipleship training of material developed.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.5M | $49.4M | — | — | $38K | $2.1M |
| 2023 | $2.2M | $234K | — | — | $16K | $50.1M |
| 2022 | $2M | $325K | $213K | — | $108K | $48.2M |
| 2021 | $5.3M | $756K | $293K | — | $461K | $46.6M |
| 2020 | $38K | $417K | $170K | $0 | $245K | $42M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Investment income$1,459,388
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $38K to 3 qualified donees:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$80K
Schedule 3 of its 2023 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Steve Klemke (director); Virginia Klemke (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Klemke Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 128052743RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.