Totem Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Cochrane, Alberta · BN 818431348RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($623,535) as filed with the CRA.
Totem Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Cochrane, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.4M in revenue and $624K in expenditures.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 35% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 41 qualified donees totalling $409K in 2024, the largest being $50K to Town of Cochrane. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $76K in 2020 to $1.4M in 2024.
In its own words
Research to determine qualified donees for the Foundation
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.4M | $624K | — | — | $499K | $11M |
| 2023 | $568K | $648K | — | — | $512K | $10.2M |
| 2022 | -$387K | $514K | — | — | $367K | $10.3M |
| 2021 | $2M | $521K | — | — | $376K | $11.2M |
| 2020 | $76K | $436K | — | — | $310K | $9.7M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Other income$681,438
- Investment income$397,607
This ratio is gifts made divided by total assets at year end. It is not the CRA disbursement quota, which is calculated on the average value of property not used in charitable activities and cannot be derived from these filings.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $409K to 41 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Town of Cochrane$50K
- West Island College Society of Alberta$33K
- Greenwood Neighbourhood Place Society$25K
- Fresh Start Recovery Centre$25K
- Fear Is Not Love Society$20K
- Wellspring Alberta$16K
- The Rocky View School Division$13K
- Autism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary$13K
- Airdrie P.O.W.E.R.$13K
- The Canadian Red Cross Society$10K
- The Bethany CARE Foundation$10K
- Sundre and District Nutrition for Learning Society$10K
- Stop Abuse in Families (saif) Society$10K
- Seniors for Kids Society$10K
- Safe Haven Foundation of Canada$10K
- Panorama Foundation Society$10K
- Iyahrhe Nakoda Food Bank Society$10K
- The Calgary Foundation$10K
- Ihuman Youth Society$10K
- Helping Hands Society of Cochrane & Area$10K
- Mount Royal University Foundation$10K
- Parks Foundation Calgary$9,000
- Edmonton Opera Association$8,805
- Humanity's Promise Int'l Association$7,500
- Women in Need Society of Calgary$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Totem Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 818431348RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.