The Shawana Foundation
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 829414705RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($713,516) as filed with the CRA.
The Shawana Foundation is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $714K in revenue and $714K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 30% from donations. In 2024, 1 other registered charity reported granting it a combined $4,000.
Compared with 2,689 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 65% of peers. None of its ten highest-paid positions cleared $40,000. The charity reported 1 permanent full-time position.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 41 qualified donees totalling $673K in 2024, the largest being $200K to Canadian Women's Foundation. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $306K in 2020 to $714K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 2 names.
In its own words
The Foundation donates to qualified donees to support community education environment animal poverty relief and health initiatives
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $714K | $714K | — | — | $673K | $2.7M |
| 2023 | $5M | $696K | — | — | $654K | $4.7M |
| 2022 | $422K | $422K | — | — | $380K | $4M |
| 2021 | $719K | $332K | — | — | $314K | $3.9M |
| 2020 | $306K | $306K | — | — | $293K | -$1.2M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $673K to 41 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Canadian Women's Foundation$200K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$35K
- Daily Bread Food Bank$35K
- Inn From the Cold Society$25K
- The Toronto Humane Society$25K
- Moisson Montréal Inc.$20K
- Goldstream Food Bank Society$20K
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Society$20K
- Faith Food Bank Society$20K
- The University of Western Ontario$20K
- Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society$15K
- Canucks Autism Network Society$15K
- Canuck Place Children's Hospice$15K
- Kids Cancer CARE Foundation of Alberta$15K
- March of Dimes Canada$10K
- Little Warriors$10K
- Meow Foundation for the Adoption of Abandoned Cats$10K
- Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society$10K
- Water First Education and Training Inc.$10K
- Pacific Wild Alliance$10K
- Pacific Wild Alliance$10K
- 'Camp Courage' The First Responder's Society$10K
- The Toronto Humane Society$10K
- Island Sexual Health Society$10K
- Options for Sexual Health$10K
Received $4,000 from 1 charity:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $1–39,9991 position
- Permanent full-time positions1
- Total compensation, all staff$26K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Heather Shaw (director); James Carter (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Shawana Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 829414705RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.