Trellis Foundation for Community Impact
Public foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 119216901RR0001 · Foundations · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($1,450,178) as filed with the CRA.
Trellis Foundation for Community Impact is a public foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $2.4M in revenue and $1.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 41% from other charities. In 2024, 5 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $1.1M.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 75% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 2 qualified donees totalling $811K in 2024, the largest being $651K to Trellis Society for Community Impact. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 8 names.
In its own words
Trellis foundation for community has as its objectives to promtoe and assist trellis society for community impact (trellis society) by: a) investing funds in order to generate a return to fund trellis society's operations; b) to assist the funding staff in school based breakfast programs in conjunction with the calgary board of education; and c) through the acquisition and maintenance of physical facilities and/or property for benefit of the trellis society.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $2.4M | $1.5M | $1.4M | — | — | $10.3M |
| 2023 | $940K | $1.7M | $1.6M | — | — | $9.4M |
| 2022 | $13K | $322K | — | — | — | $10.1M |
| 2021 | $4.6M | $1.7M | — | — | — | $10.4M |
| 2020 | $1.7M | $1.6M | — | — | — | $7.5M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $811K to 2 qualified donees:
Received $1.1M from 5 charities:
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Gary Peddle (chair); David Forbes (director); Aidan Mills (director); Richard Bartrem (director); Shawn Freeman (director); Kimberly O'Brien (director); Robert Ohlson (director); Nazim Virani (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Trellis Foundation for Community Impact’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 119216901RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.