Ways to give

2024/2025 Stewardship Giving Program

The 2024/2025 Stewardship Program connects us to the wider community with Open Space. Vibrant Place. Sacred Connections. We need your help to support Knox’s operating expenses, which enable it to excel as an innovative hub and to become more deeply engaged with the downtown community as a safe and welcoming space for quiet contemplation, right relations, social justice, arts, music, culture and spiritual growth

HOW to MAKE A DONATION

Tax receipts will be issued by the end of February in the following year.

Knox Foundation

The Knox United Church Foundation of Calgary (Knox Foundation) is an independent body that receives, holds and manages endowments and other funds in the form of money or other property, and to apply income or other capital from those funds yearly to support the ongoing ministry of Knox United Church or for the maintenance of the historical building, Casavant organ, and/or the memorial garden.

Quick facts

  • Knox Foundation is a registered Canadian charity 137406039 RR0001

  • It was founded in 1987 by the members of Knox United Church.

  • Contributions are kept strictly confidential, if requested. 

  • Knox Foundation had a value of almost $1 million at the end of August 2021.

  • 98% of the Knox Foundation’s assets are being conservatively managed by the Calgary Foundation.

  • The main purpose of the Foundation is to provide sustaining income to Knox United Church. Annual disbursements to Knox United Church are based on the profit and income from invested capital.

  • Base capital is sometimes used to help fund projects at Knox United Church that require additional funding. Most recently the Foundation has donated supplementary funds for stone restoration work on the Bell Tower at Knox.

  • Knox Foundation has donated over $533,000 to Knox United Church since 1991.

  • Annual donations over $200 attract about a 40% tax refund in Alberta.

Create a living legacy, today

Often when we speak to others of Knox United Church and what it means to us, we speak of a special relationship and the special place where we worship. We speak about the messages and the teachings. We speak about the sanctuary as a place for peaceful worship. We speak of the music. We speak of a desire to have all of this passed on to others despite the ravages of time and change.

Setting up a plan today creates a living legacy and will ensure that these things are enjoyed for time to come. Everyone can contribute.