The Norquest College Foundation
Public foundation · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 891145401RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-06-30. Split of total expenditures ($5,137,000) as filed with the CRA.
The Norquest College Foundation is a public foundation based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. In its fiscal year ending June 30, 2024, it reported $5.1M in revenue and $5.1M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 48% from donations, 41% from other charities. In 2024, 17 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $620K.
Compared with 632 education charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 24% of peers. Its fundraising cost per donated dollar was higher than 77% of that peer group. Its highest-paid position fell in the $160,000–199,999 range. The charity reported 9 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $3.7M in 2024, the largest being $3.7M to The Board of Governors of Norquest College. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $2.1M in 2020 to $5.1M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
The mandate of the norquest foundation is to raise funds for projects programs and services that serve to improve opportunities for norquest college learners' success. Norquest college learners benefit directly from funds raised from scholarships and bursaries and indirectly through funds allocated to learning resources enhanced classrooms and the overall learning environment.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $5.1M | $5.1M | — | $1.2M | $3.7M | $0 |
| 2023 | $3.7M | $3.7M | — | $1.1M | $2.4M | $0 |
| 2022 | $2.1M | $814K | — | $660K | — | $0 |
| 2021 | $2.2M | $553K | — | $408K | — | $0 |
| 2020 | $2.1M | $549K | — | $438K | — | $0 |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $3.7M to 1 qualified donee:
- The Board of Governors of Norquest College$3.7M
Received $620K from 17 charities:
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund$200K
- Fredrickson-McGregor Education Foundation for Licensed Practical Nurses$100K
- Actua$86K
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$80K
- RBC Foundation$80K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$25K
- Cpa Education Foundation$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$8,000
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$7,500
- Wolfe Pack Warriors Foundation$5,000
- The Edmonton Rotary Club Foundation$3,000
- Canadahelps Canadon$1,131
- BenefAction Foundation$1,000
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$1,000
- Shelley and Guy Scott Family Foundation$1,000
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$460
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$49
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $160,000–199,9991 position
- $120,000–159,9993 positions
- $80,000–119,9993 positions
- $40,000–79,9992 positions
- Permanent full-time positions9
- Total compensation, all staff$1.1M
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Carolyn Campbell (president & ceo); Brenda Jill Matthew (director); Sheldon Smart (secretary/treasurer); Megan Schwann (director); Rob Heron (chair).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Norquest College Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891145401RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.