Alberta · Registered charity
ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION
ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION (Alberta) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$66,730 to it, the largest being THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PRIV ACT (C$38,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION's revenue fell 99% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 108 research nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- Covenant Foundationlocal
- Pirie Foundation Non-Profit Priv Assoportfolio match
- The Flanagan 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: 2021 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (98% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$2k → C$587.
From the CRA filings of ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION’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
ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 96% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 100% · 2021 79% · 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.
Where its funders are
58% of ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$28k that is directly attributable, 65% of it comes from Alberta funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$39k 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 5 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Covenant FoundationlocalAB · funds 3 organizations near you
- Pirie Foundation Non-Profit Priv Assoportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Flanagan Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Riddell Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cpa Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Daniel Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The John Dobson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Matt Campbell Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- History & Heroes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Palmer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Counselling Foundation of Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hunter Family 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 ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 21% of FY2021 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION?
- ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION (Alberta) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$66,730 to it, the largest being THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PRIV ACT (C$38,600). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 58% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$66,730 in grants to ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION?
- THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PRIV ACT is the largest funder on record, with C$38,600 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like ASPEN FOUNATION FOR LABOUR EDUCATION 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 5 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