The Legacy Children's Foundation - Alberta
Public foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 887315604RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($148,774) as filed with the CRA.
The Legacy Children's Foundation - Alberta is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $117K in revenue and $149K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 25% from donations, 72% from other charities. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $1.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking 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 $10K in 2024, the largest being $5,000 to Pinridge Parents School Fundrasing Society. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $44K in 2020 to $117K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 4 names.
In its own words
1. Raise/acquire grant funds & other resources (musical instruments) to support foundation programs/activities. 2. Evaluate effectiveness of programs/activities 3. Conduct research associated with foundation programs/activities. 4. Provide one on one and internet based music lessons support and musical instruments (through our musical instrument bank) to high-risk youth whose situations fall within established criteria. 5. Coordinate musical instrument drives to support the musical instrument bank. 6. Provide community based music workshop experiences instrument repair training and othe…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $117K | $149K | $131K | $4,115 | — | $188K |
| 2023 | $226K | $133K | $127K | $3,329 | — | $186K |
| 2022 | $19K | $19K | — | — | $370 | $254K |
| 2021 | $111K | $71K | $64K | $3,009 | — | $149K |
| 2020 | $44K | $73K | $70K | — | — | $131K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $10K to 2 qualified donees:
- Pinridge Parents School Fundrasing Society$5,000
- Belfast School Fundrasing Society$5,000
Received $1 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Total compensation, all staff$89K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Darryl Wernham (board member); Russell Wallace (board treasurer); Lori Lovacs (board chair); Shaye Radford (board secretary).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Legacy Children's Foundation - Alberta’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 887315604RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.