The Sawatzky Specialties Foundation
Private foundation · Stony Plain, Alberta · BN 868491093RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($518,913) as filed with the CRA.
The Sawatzky Specialties Foundation is a private foundation based in Stony Plain, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $683K in revenue and $519K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 73% from donations.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 74% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 26 qualified donees totalling $504K in 2024, the largest being $110K to Living Waters Christian Academy. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $247K in 2020 to $683K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
Reviewed the nature of other charities for the purpose of providing funds to them. Awarded funds to acceptable qualified donees which consisted primarily of religious organizations.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $683K | $519K | — | — | $504K | $3.7M |
| 2023 | $334K | $521K | — | — | $507K | $3.5M |
| 2022 | $252K | $494K | — | — | $478K | $3.7M |
| 2021 | $3.9M | $497K | — | — | $485K | $3.9M |
| 2020 | $247K | $498K | — | — | $496K | $502K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $504K to 26 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Living Waters Christian Academy$110K
- Spruce Grove Alliance Church$85K
- Ide International Development Enterprises Association Inc.$50K
- The Samaritan Foundation$44K
- The Samaritan's Purse - Canada$35K
- Childcare International Society$18K
- Better Together Liberia$15K
- Impact Ministries Canada$15K
- Hungry for Life International$12K
- World Mission Continuum Society$10K
- The Refuge Mission Foundation$10K
- Engineering Ministries International Canada$10K
- Turning Point for God of Canada$10K
- Spruce Grove Community Church$10K
- Mully Children's Family Canada$10K
- Focus on the Family (canada) Association$10K
- Adeara Recovery Centre$9,000
- Neighbourlink Parkland$7,500
- TeachBeyond Inc.$6,000
- The Association for Evergreen Youth$5,000
- The Mustard Seed Foundation$5,000
- Parkland Food Bank Society$5,000
- Rising Above Healing Ministries$4,000
- Hope Mission$3,000
- Feed My Lambs Street Mission Inc.$3,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gary Hiebert (director); Jennifer Kemp (director); Irmgard Sawatzky (secretary/director); Sylvia Voogd (director); Willy Sawatzky (president/director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Sawatzky Specialties Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 868491093RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.