Westman Charitable Foundation
Private foundation · Calgary, Alberta · BN 851987966RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($604,405) as filed with the CRA.
Westman Charitable Foundation is a private foundation based in Calgary, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $1.6M in revenue and $604K in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 71% from donations.
Compared with 1,554 grantmaking charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 67% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 8 qualified donees totalling $565K in 2024, the largest being $150K to Kids Cancer CARE Foundation of Alberta. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $325K in 2020 to $1.6M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
The foundation continues to support various community social and health focused charities.
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $1.6M | $604K | — | — | $565K | $3.7M |
| 2023 | $1.5M | $770K | — | — | $722K | $2.9M |
| 2022 | $716K | $1.9M | — | $281K | $1.6M | $1.7M |
| 2021 | $1.8M | $159K | — | — | $125K | $3.7M |
| 2020 | $325K | $665K | — | — | $632K | $1.8M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Private foundation — endowment and payout, December 31, 2024
- Receipted donations$1,150,000
- Other income$436,233
- Investment income$40,448
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 $565K to 8 qualified donees:
- Kids Cancer CARE Foundation of Alberta$150K
- Northern Alberta Institute of Technology$100K
- Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology$100K
- Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology$100K
- Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation$75K
- PCC Prostate Cancer Centre$25K
- National Music Centre$10K
- Alberta Cancer Foundation$5,000
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Jay Westman (director); Diana Joseph (director); Aasit Amin (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Westman Charitable Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 851987966RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.