The Taylor Family Foundation
Public foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 810513804RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-08-31. Split of total expenditures ($23,675,000) as filed with the CRA.
The Taylor Family Foundation is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending August 31, 2024, it reported $2.8M in revenue and $23.7M in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 96% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 10 qualified donees totalling $23.7M in 2024, the largest being $6.5M to The Governors of The University of Calgary. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $15.5M in 2020 to $2.8M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
The foundation provides gifts to other qualified donees in such areas as health education history and the arts.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.8M | $23.7M | — | — | $23.7M | $6.7M |
| 2023 | $282K | $13.6M | — | — | $13.6M | $6.5M |
| 2022 | $5.5M | $9.1M | — | — | $9.1M | $6.3M |
| 2021 | $10.5M | $10.1M | — | — | $10.1M | $5.5M |
| 2020 | $15.5M | $15.4M | — | — | $15.4M | $47K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $23.7M to 10 qualified donees:
- The Governors of The University of Calgary$6.5M
- Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology$6M
- Calgary Young Women's Christian Association$4.5M
- The Calgary Zoological Society$3.8M
- Rideau Hall Foundation$2.5M
- Calgary Philharmonic Society$250K
- The Canadian National Institute for the Blind$25K
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada$25K
- Kids Up Front Foundation (calgary)$25K
- Alberta Cancer Foundation$25K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Donald Taylor (director); David Taylor (director); John Simpson (director); Donald Douglas (director); Dion Legge (director); Meghan Meger (director); Brian Neufeld (director); Steven Gauthier (secretary-treasurer).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Taylor Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 810513804RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.