The Wood's Homes Foundation
Public foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 891849218RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,518,797) as filed with the CRA.
The Wood's Homes Foundation is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations.
In 2024, 36 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $781K.
Compared with 627 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 3% of peers. Its highest-paid position fell in the $120,000–159,999 range. The charity reported 8 permanent full-time positions.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $1.3M in 2024, the largest being $1.1M to Wood's Homes. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The foundation works in direct support of wood's homes society and wood's homes. All donations received are distributed to wood's homes society and wood's homes which are registered charities serving children and families with special education programs residential and outpatient treatment programs.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | — | $4.5M | — | $559K | $1.3M | $9.8M |
| 2023 | $3.2M | $2.9M | — | $443K | $1.1M | $9.8M |
| 2022 | $1.7M | $1M | — | $323K | — | $8M |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $2M | — | $341K | $1.1M | $9M |
| 2020 | $2.6M | $1.7M | — | $427K | $868K | $8.1M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $1.3M to 2 qualified donees:
- Wood's Homes$1.1M
- Wood's Homes Society$175K
Received $781K from 36 charities:
- The Calgary Foundation$324K
- The Calgary Fetal Alcohol Network: An Alberta Story$52K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$52K
- RBC Foundation$50K
- EON Foundation$50K
- BenefAction Foundation$49K
- Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.$37K
- The Kaiser Charitable Foundation (2011)$30K
- Clearwater Charitable Foundation$25K
- The Brandon Area Community Foundation Inc.$20K
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation$18K
- Canadahelps Canadon$15K
- Aqueduct Foundation$12K
- Calgary CO-Op Community Foundation$10K
- McCarthy Tetrault Foundation$10K
- United Way of Calgary and Area$8,787
- TELUS Friendly Future Foundation$3,942
- Children's Hospital Aid Society$2,500
- Hockey Helps the Homeless/hockey Aide les Sans-Abri$2,000
- Fondation RONA$1,190
- Lily Street Foundation$1,000
- Raymond James Canada Foundation$1,000
- The Masonic Foundation of Alberta$1,000
- Werklund Foundation$1,000
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$900
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
Its ten highest-paid positions, by band:
- $120,000–159,9991 position
- $80,000–119,9992 positions
- $40,000–79,9995 positions
- Permanent full-time positions8
- Total compensation, all staff$718K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Renee Hopfner (chair of the board); Robin Kooyman (board member); Sandra Gawalko (board member); Susan Churcher (board member); Joe Palin (board member); Mardi McNaughton (board member); Kia Pyrcz (board member); Michael Jantzen (board member); Travis Zentner (board member); Michelle Goodkey (board member).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from The Wood's Homes Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 891849218RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.