YMCA of Northern Alberta Foundation
Public foundation · Edmonton, Alberta · BN 890615974RR0001 · Foundations Advancing Religion · website
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-03-31. Split of total expenditures ($464,441) as filed with the CRA.
YMCA of Northern Alberta Foundation is a public foundation based in Edmonton, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations advancing religion. In its fiscal year ending March 31, 2024, it reported $189K in revenue and $464K in expenditures. Spending exceeded revenue that year — the gap came out of reserves.
Its funding that year was roughly 89% from other charities. In 2024, 12 other registered charities reported granting it a combined $753K.
Compared with 14,125 religious charities of similar size, its share of spending on mission — charitable programs plus grants to other charities — ranked above 72% of peers. Its reserves, measured in years of spending on hand, sat in the top decile of the group.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 1 qualified donee totalling $282K in 2024, the largest being $282K to The Young Men's Christian Association of Edmonton. Revenue has declined over its filings on record here, from $999K in 2020 to $189K in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 10 names.
In its own words
The purpose of ymca of northern alberta foundation is to act as a fund-raising body to collect donations gifts and bequests of every kind and description in order to establish and accumulate an investment fund. The goal of the foundation is to expand and administer the investment fund and to direct investment income from the fund towards the aims and objectives of the young men's christian association of edmonton (operating as ymca of northern alberta.) the mission of ymca of northern alberta foundation is stated as 'to act as a fund-raising body collecting dondations gifts and bequests ex…
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2020–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $189K | $464K | $168K | — | $282K | $6.4M |
| 2023 | $157K | $353K | $145K | — | $194K | $6.1M |
| 2022 | $594K | $335K | $138K | — | $185K | $5.7M |
| 2021 | $1.1M | $321K | $151K | — | $157K | $5.4M |
| 2020 | $999K | $1.2M | $156K | — | $164K | $4.6M |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $282K to 1 qualified donee:
Received $753K from 12 charities:
- Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation$687K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Canadahelps Canadon$19K
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation$8,600
- Sequeira Family Foundation$5,000
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation$5,000
- The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act$4,502
- BenefAction Foundation$2,500
- Fondation RONA$1,400
- CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada)$985
- Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation$499
- United Way of the Alberta Capital Region$252
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
What it pays
- Permanent full-time positions0
- Total compensation, all staff$168K
Schedule 3 of its 2024 return. The CRA discloses bands, not names or exact salaries.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Rahim Adatia (director); Rajan Bhatti (director); Brent Buchanan (director); Timothy Haak (board chair-effective june 23); Alexandria Fisher (director); Deborah McKinnon (director); Nicholas Parkinson (director); Jean Jacques Tremblay (director); Jeremy Herbert (director); Holli Bjerland (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from YMCA of Northern Alberta Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 890615974RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.