Alberta · Registered charity
AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC.
AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC. (Alberta) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$700,055 to it, the largest being THE MCCAIN FOUNDATION (C$210,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
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 Flames Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Werklund Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fundshared funders
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.
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 19% · 2018 12% · 2019 20% · 2020 26% · 2021 39% · 2022 65% · 2023 68% · 2024 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 6 funders, grant income rose C$21k → C$109k.
From the CRA filings of AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC.’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
AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC. has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 30% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 47% · 2018 38% · 2019 31% · 2020 47% · 2021 54% · 2022 56% · 2023 46% — broadly stable.
“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
36% of AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% 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
AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC. draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 4 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$23k 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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Calgary Flames Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 103 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Werklund Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fundshared fundersAB · backs 54 organizations that share your funders
- Aeonian Support for Humanitarian Charities Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carthy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary District 5370 Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cenovus Employee Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Donald And Eleanor Seaman Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alberta Ecotrust Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ptarmigan Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope Lutheran ChurchlocalAB · funds 5 organizations near you
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 AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC. reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 39% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC.
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
72% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC.?
- AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC. (Alberta) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$700,055 to it, the largest being THE MCCAIN FOUNDATION (C$210,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$700,055 in grants to AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC., 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC.?
- THE MCCAIN FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$210,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like AGRICULTURE FOR LIFE INC. find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.
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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 14 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