Alberta · Registered charity
Action Dignity Society
Action Dignity Society (Alberta) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$8,293,863 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA (C$4,052,910). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Action Dignity Society runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,132 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,132 community resource nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Calgary Learns Associationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Trico Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Hunter Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 47% · 2018 31% · 2019 46% · 2020 55% · 2021 43% · 2022 46% · 2023 32% · 2024 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of Action Dignity Society’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (4% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 3 funders to 12 funders, grant income rose C$564k → C$1.6M.
From the CRA filings of Action Dignity Society’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
Action Dignity Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund Action Dignity Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 99% · 2018 67% · 2019 75% · 2020 69% · 2021 52% · 2022 47% · 2023 43% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
75% of Action Dignity Society's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 63% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
89% of Action Dignity Society's grant income comes from Alberta funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$11k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 19 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Calgary Learns Associationshared funderslocalportfolio matchAB · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Trico Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 4 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Hunter Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 48 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- St David's United Church Foundation of CalgarylocalAB · funds 4 organizations near you
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation - Fondation Canadienne Des Relations Racialesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Inspirit Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Social Venture Partners Calgary Ltd.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Silver Gummyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unitarian Church of Calgaryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Black Opportunity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calgary Association of Lifelong Learnersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Flanagan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue Action Dignity Society reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 29% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Action Dignity Society
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Alberta
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Action Dignity Society?
- Action Dignity Society (Alberta) receives grants from 19 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$8,293,863 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA (C$4,052,910). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Action Dignity Society have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 19 organizations giving C$8,293,863 in grants to Action Dignity Society, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Action Dignity Society?
- UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA is the largest funder on record, with C$4,052,910 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Action Dignity Society find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 19 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register