Trellis Foundation: A Legacy of Covenant Bible College
Publicly funded institution · Strathmore, Alberta · BN 106990070RR0001 · Teaching Institutions · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-05-31. Split of total expenditures ($100,728) as filed with the CRA.
Trellis Foundation: A Legacy of Covenant Bible College is a public foundation based in Strathmore, Alberta, classified by the CRA under teaching institutions. It appears on the charity register the way hospitals, universities, and other publicly funded bodies do — to issue tax receipts — rather than as a donation-driven charity in the usual sense. In its fiscal year ending May 31, 2024, it reported $62K in revenue and $101K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
In 2024, 2 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $900.
Compared with 673 education institutions of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 29% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 7 qualified donees totalling $68K in 2024, the largest being $39K to Evangelical Covenant Church Canada. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 5 names.
In its own words
To raise receive maintain and manage a fund or funds and to apply from time to time all or part of thereof and/or the income there from for charitable purposes through donations to 'qualified donees' which will act to be catalysis of biblical intentional and innovative discicpleship in the evangelical covenant church of canada and which will equip men & women to live as disciples of jesus christ
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $62K | $101K | $9,956 | — | $68K | $0 |
| 2023 | $58K | $133K | $6,627 | — | $98K | $2M |
| 2022 | $64K | $134K | — | — | $106K | $2.1M |
| 2021 | $59K | $56K | — | — | $31K | $2.1M |
| 2020 | $66K | $78K | $3,005 | — | $48K | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $68K to 7 qualified donees:
- Evangelical Covenant Church Canada$39K
- The Great Commission Foundation$7,536
- Harbour at Riondel Ministries Society$7,500
- City Collective Church$7,500
- Rosebud Church An Evangelical Covenant Church$2,400
- Sarnia Lighthouse Community Church$2,400
- Malmo Mission Covenant Church$2,000
Received $900 from 2 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jeff Anderson (member at large); Phil Adkins (chair); Adrianna Charles (treasurer); Jaisy Tam-Harbridge (member at large); Marty Johnson (member-at-large).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Trellis Foundation: A Legacy of Covenant Bible College’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 106990070RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.