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Alberta · Registered charity

FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION

FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 42 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$13,996,906 to it, the largest being Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada (C$6,517,275). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$9.7M
Revenue FY2024
42
Funders on record
C$14M
Grants received
C$1.7M
Net assets
22/42 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION has grown faster than three-quarters of the 1,601 foundations nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−3% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve5.5mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)30% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,601 foundations 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$1.5M) Expenses 100 (C$1.7M) Net assets 100 (C$1.2M)2018 Revenue 105 (C$1.6M) Expenses 111 (C$1.9M) Net assets 80 (C$968k)2019 Revenue 117 (C$1.8M) Expenses 130 (C$2.2M) Net assets 48 (C$578k)2020 Revenue 661 (C$10M) Expenses 527 (C$8.8M) Net assets 155 (C$1.9M)2021 Revenue 324 (C$5.0M) Expenses 290 (C$4.9M) Net assets 164 (C$2.0M)2022 Revenue 382 (C$5.9M) Expenses 362 (C$6.1M) Net assets 147 (C$1.8M)2023 Revenue 576 (C$8.8M) Expenses 520 (C$8.7M) Net assets 158 (C$1.9M)2024 Revenue 633 (C$9.7M) Expenses 595 (C$10.0M) Net assets 137 (C$1.7M)
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Revenue (633)Expenses (595)Net assets (137)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 0% · 2018 0% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

97% of FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,335 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$142k
’17
−C$247k
’18
−C$390k
’19
C$1.3M
’20
C$110k
’21
−C$204k
’22
C$124k
’23
−C$249k
’24
5.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 12 funders to 17 funders, grant income fell C$2.7M → C$486k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$697k
The Peter Gilgan Foundationunclassified
C$150k
Aqueduct Foundationunclassified
C$25k
Atco Electric Epicunclassified
C$14k
Flagstaff Food Bankunclassified
C$13k
funders
12
9
7
18
14
19
17
23

From the CRA filings of FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 42 funders by total. 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

FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 77%; 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 FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION.

47%
largest funder
77%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 82% · 2018 47% · 2019 94% · 2020 45% · 2021 92% · 2022 48% · 2023 35% — 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

38% of FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 52% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION draws 96% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 7 regions in all.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

’17
’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alberta out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$1.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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.

03Its place in the field

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 42 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$913k
17
18
24
  • 9% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION

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

Red Deer Food Bank Society77%Blackfalds Food Bank Society74%Wecan Food Basket Society of Alberta73%Airdrie Food Bank73%Coaldale Community Food Bank Society73%Campus Food Bank Society72%Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society72%AMA Community Foundation71%

Nationally

Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporation77%Red Deer Food Bank Society77%Food Banks British Columbia76%Manitoba Association of Foodbanks Inc.75%Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada75%Golden Food Bank Society74%Blackfalds Food Bank Society74%Ontario Association of Food Banks73%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

98% of spending goes to programs.

Program 98%Management 1%Fundraising 0%

Governance

12
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION?
FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 42 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$13,996,906 to it, the largest being Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada (C$6,517,275). 22 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 42 organizations giving C$13,996,906 in grants to FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION, 22 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION?
Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$6,517,275 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FOOD BANKS ALBERTA ASSOCIATION 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 42 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