British Columbia · Registered charity
ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA
ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA (British Columbia) receives grants from 257 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$20,503,419 to it, the largest being WORLD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF CANADA (C$2,614,055). 139 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 550 support of religion nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 550 support of religion 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.
- Saint Mary's Health Foundation of New Westminsterlocal
- K-W Chinese Alliance Churchportfolio match
- Grace Baptist Church of Simcoe Incportfolio 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: 2020 10% · 2021 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (61% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 99 funders to 95 funders, grant income rose C$2.1M → C$2.2M.
From the CRA filings of ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 257 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
ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 13% of grant income, and it takes 10 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 10 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 ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 37% · 2019 23% · 2020 20% · 2021 24% · 2022 26% · 2023 10% — 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
39% of ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 54% 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
ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA draws 59% of its grant income from funders outside British Columbia, across 11 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$742k 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 257 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Saint Mary's Health Foundation of New WestminsterlocalBC · funds 7 organizations near you
- K-W Chinese Alliance Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Grace Baptist Church of Simcoe Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The People Church C/O Treasurerportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kingston Chinese Alliance Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Emmanuel Baptist Church of Nipawin Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Royal Columbian Hospital Nurses Alumnae SocietylocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- British Columbia Self Advocacy FoundationlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Ff Family Focus SocietylocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Royal Columbian Hospital AuxiliarylocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Arts Council of New WestminsterlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- New Westminster Fire Fighters Charitable SocietylocalBC · funds 3 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 ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 14% of FY2021 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA
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 British Columbia
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA?
- ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA (British Columbia) receives grants from 257 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$20,503,419 to it, the largest being WORLD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF CANADA (C$2,614,055). 139 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 257 organizations giving C$20,503,419 in grants to ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA, 139 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA?
- WORLD CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$2,614,055 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ALPHA MINISTRIES CANADA find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in British Columbia.
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 257 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