Alberta · Registered charity
ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY)
ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY) (Alberta) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$42,822 to it, the largest being CMA FOUNDATION FONDATION AMC (C$20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY) holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- United Way of Lethbridge & South Western Alberta Societylocal
- The M a C AIDS Fund/Le Fonds Sida Macportfolio match
- Abbey of the Long Cedar Canoe Societyportfolio 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 6% · 2018 44% · 2019 91% · 2020 92% · 2021 61% · 2022 98% · 2023 98% · 2024 98%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY)’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (21% 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 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$6k → C$1k.
From the CRA filings of ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT 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
ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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 ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 71% · 2018 71% · 2019 96% · 2020 70% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
14% of ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 11% 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
ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY) draws 82% 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$500 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 9 funders put you under-funded among the 342 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Lethbridge & South Western Alberta SocietylocalAB · funds 19 organizations near you
- The M a C AIDS Fund/Le Fonds Sida Macportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Abbey of the Long Cedar Canoe Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Indigenous Peoples Resilience Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A Dollar A Day Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pride and Remembrance Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Troop Impact Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Black Opportunity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The National Sixties Scoop Healing Foundation of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- End Homelessness Winnipeg Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Aurora United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- University Community Churchportfolio 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 ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 98% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT 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
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY)?
- ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY) (Alberta) receives grants from 9 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$42,822 to it, the largest being CMA FOUNDATION FONDATION AMC (C$20,000). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 9 organizations giving C$42,822 in grants to ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY), 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY)?
- CMA FOUNDATION FONDATION AMC is the largest funder on record, with C$20,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ARCHES (AIDS OUTREACH COMMUNITY HARM REDUCTION EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY) 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 9 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