Ypma Family Foundation
Private foundation · Taber, Alberta · BN 799189261RR0001 · Foundations
Source: T3010 return, FPE 2024-12-31. Split of total expenditures ($4,455,291) as filed with the CRA.
Ypma Family Foundation is a private foundation based in Taber, Alberta, classified by the CRA under foundations. In its fiscal year ending December 31, 2024, it reported $6.3M in revenue and $4.5M in expenditures.
Its funding that year was roughly 99% 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 94% of peers.
As a grantmaker, it reported gifts to 53 qualified donees totalling $4.4M in 2024, the largest being $825K to Streets Alive Family Support Association. Revenue has grown substantially over its filings on record here, from $1.4M in 2021 to $6.3M in 2024. Its filed list of directors and trustees shows 3 names.
In its own words
To benefit causes that support relief of property advancement or religion and/or advancement of community
Ongoing-program description from its T3010 filing, verbatim.
The ledger, 2021–2024
| Year | Revenue | Spending | Programs | Fundraising | Gifts out | Net assets |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | $6.3M | $4.5M | $5,000 | — | $4.4M | $7.9M |
| 2023 | $7.3M | $2.1M | $45K | — | $2.1M | $6.1M |
| 2022 | $3M | $2.3M | $419K | — | $1.9M | $938K |
| 2021 | $1.4M | $1.2M | — | — | $1M | $278K |
Revenue printed in red where the year ran a deficit. Fiscal years by period end.
Money between charities, 2024
Granted $4.4M to 53 qualified donees — largest 25 shown:
- Streets Alive Family Support Association$825K
- Chinook Regional Hospital Foundation$750K
- Word & Deed Ministries Canada Inc.$450K
- The MID-America Reformed Seminary Foundation$245K
- Taber United Reformed Church$200K
- Come Over and Help Aid Organization Inc.$155K
- Mission Aviation Fellowship of Canada$120K
- Rehoboth Christian Ministries Association$113K
- Redemption Prison Ministries$95K
- Run Free Ministries Association$90K
- United Reformed Missions Association$80K
- Reformation Christrian Ministries$75K
- Middle East Reformed Fellowship (canada) Inc$75K
- Lethbridge & District Pro-Life Association$75K
- Halo Air Ambulance Society$75K
- The S a Foundation (servants Anonymous)-Canada$65K
- Alberta Cancer Foundation$62K
- Medicine Hat Pregnancy Support Society$55K
- The Evangelical Free Church of Canada$55K
- Bridges of Hope International Network of Development Agencies Inc.$50K
- Teen Challenge of Central Canada Inc.$50K
- Children of Hope$50K
- Taber and District Health Foundation$45K
- Reformed Faith and Life-Canada$40K
- Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms$40K
As reported on the donors’ own T3010 qualified-donee schedules.
Directors & trustees (2024)
Lyle Ypma (director); Keith Ypma (director); Dale Ypma (director).
As listed on its 2024 return.
Check the source
Every figure on this page is from Ypma Family Foundation’s own T3010 filings, published by the Canada Revenue Agency. Verify against the CRA’s charities listing (search BN 799189261RR0001), or read how we compute the receipt.