Alberta · Registered charity
Alberta Spine Foundation
Alberta Spine Foundation (Alberta) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,477 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$1,017). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Alberta Spine Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,019 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,019 teaching institutions 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.
- The Brenda Strafford Foundation Ltd.local
- Make a Dream Come True (Lions) Societyportfolio match
- University Hospitals Foundationportfolio 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 69% · 2018 55% · 2019 61% · 2020 53%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Alberta Spine Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (11% 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
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the CRA filings of Alberta Spine Foundation’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 Spine Foundation leans on a few funders — its largest provides 69% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder 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 Spine Foundation.
“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 Spine Foundation draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 2 regions in all.
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- The Brenda Strafford Foundation Ltd.localAB · funds 3 organizations near you
- Make a Dream Come True (Lions) Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- University Hospitals Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Stavely & District Community Chestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calgary Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Red Deer Polytechnicportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Standard Community Chestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Westman Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cremona and District Community Chestportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caron Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Gleichen-Cluny United Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Children's Hospital 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 Alberta Spine Foundation reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 53% of FY2020 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Alberta Spine Foundation
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
87% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Alberta Spine Foundation?
- Alberta Spine Foundation (Alberta) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,477 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$1,017). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Alberta Spine Foundation have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 2 organizations giving C$1,477 in grants to Alberta Spine Foundation, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Alberta Spine Foundation?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$1,017 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Alberta Spine Foundation 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 2 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