The Northwestern Polytechnic Foundation
Publicly funded institution · Grande Prairie, Alberta · BN 118945484RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Education · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,577,906) as filed with the CRA.
The Northwestern Polytechnic Foundation is a charitable organization based in Grande Prairie, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing education. 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 March 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $1.6M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 65% from donations, 20% from government, 10% from other charities. In 2024, 6 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $89K.
Compared with 1,247 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 25% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
It reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $324K in 2024, the largest being $324K to Northwestern Polytechnic. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 7 names.
In its own words
Student award programs consisting of bursaries and scholarships for students enrolled in post-secondary educational programs. Contributions to Northwestern Polytechnic for capital and operating expenses.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $1.6M | $953K | $293K | $324K | $8.8M |
| 2023 | $1.3M | $1.3M | $926K | $157K | $53K | $8.7M |
| 2022 | $1.4M | $1.3M | $1.2M | $59K | $134K | $7.9M |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $778K | $655K | $8,477 | $94K | $6.9M |
| 2020 | $2.2M | $1.2M | $778K | $180K | $177K | $6.9M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $324K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $89K from 6 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Brent Cage (vice chair (acting chair)); Shawna Miller (public member); Andrew Pietsch (academic staff); Vanessa Sheane (president & ceo); Ken Wittig (public member); Thomas Watts (vice president administration); Danielle Strilaeff (director financial services).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Northwestern Polytechnic Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 118945484RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.