Alberta · Registered charity
ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY
ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$33,160 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$15,541). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 1,075 support of schools and education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,075 support of schools and education nonprofits $100k–$1M, 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.
- The Dianne and Irving Kipnes Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Rozsa Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Allard Foundation Ltd.shared 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 24% · 2018 24% · 2019 21% · 2020 60% · 2021 81% · 2022 66% · 2023 45% · 2024 54%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
3% of ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (40% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 3 funders, grant income rose C$4k → C$5k.
From the CRA filings of ALBERTA BOOK FAIR 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
ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 96%; 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 ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 51% · 2019 95% · 2020 59% · 2021 100% · 2022 51% · 2023 84% — 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.
Where its funders are
ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY draws 95% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 2 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$6k 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 4 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Dianne and Irving Kipnes Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchAB · backs 32 organizations that share your funders · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Rozsa Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 40 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Allard Foundation Ltd.shared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Flanagan Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Edmonton Rotary Club FoundationlocalAB · funds 6 organizations near you
- Prairie Crocus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Music Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry and Martha Cohen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- McCoy Family Charity Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Somar Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Central Albertaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Brawn Family Foundation.portfolio 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 ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 54% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ALBERTA BOOK FAIR 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY?
- ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$33,160 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$15,541). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$33,160 in grants to ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$15,541 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALBERTA BOOK FAIR SOCIETY 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 4 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