Alberta · Registered charity
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT (Alberta) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$313,775 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$88,102). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT is better cushioned than half 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 Societylocalportfolio match
- Parent/Preschool Program Association of Southwestern Albertalocalportfolio match
- The Bbbsc Trustportfolio 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: 2018 25% · 2019 19% · 2020 43% · 2021 48% · 2022 22% · 2023 21% · 2024 21%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
61% of BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose C$6k → C$32k.
From the CRA filings of BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT’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
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 28% of grant income and the top three 70%; 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 BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 39% · 2018 48% · 2019 45% · 2020 44% · 2021 32% · 2022 53% · 2023 39% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT draws 65% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 3 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$26k 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.
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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Lethbridge & South Western Alberta Societylocalportfolio matchAB · funds 19 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Parent/Preschool Program Association of Southwestern Albertalocalportfolio matchAB · funds 6 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Bbbsc Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ames Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Alberta Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cknw Kids' Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Access Communications Children's Fund Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Evangelical Free Church of LethbridgelocalAB · funds 9 organizations near you
- Stitch It Forward Society of LethbridgelocalAB · funds 4 organizations near you
- Netherlands Reformed Congregation of LethbridgelocalAB · funds 5 organizations near you
- Monarch Reformed ChurchlocalAB · funds 5 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 BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 21% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT
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 BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT?
- BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT (Alberta) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$313,775 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$88,102). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$313,775 in grants to BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT?
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne is the largest funder on record, with C$88,102 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF LETHBRIDGE AND DISTRICT 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 14 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