Alberta · Registered charity
BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT
BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT (Alberta) receives grants from 23 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,278,590 to it, the largest being CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION (C$727,112). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT runs a healthier operating margin 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.
- Hillcrest Evangelical Missionary Church Fellowshiplocalportfolio match
- The Bbbsc Trustportfolio match
- Black Opportunity Fundportfolio 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 21% · 2018 15% · 2019 5% · 2020 53% · 2021 25% · 2022 11% · 2023 28% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
37% of BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT 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. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 9 funders, grant income rose C$130k → C$167k.
From the CRA filings of BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 21 of 23 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
BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 85%; 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 BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 83% · 2019 85% · 2020 77% · 2021 66% · 2022 69% · 2023 53% — 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
47% of BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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
93% of BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT's grant income comes from Alberta funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$193k 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 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Hillcrest Evangelical Missionary Church Fellowshiplocalportfolio matchAB · funds 12 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Bbbsc Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Black Opportunity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Bowmanville Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Lincoln Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cknw Kids' Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- River Valley Community Church and Fellowship of Medicine HatlocalAB · funds 9 organizations near you
- Church Unlimited Christian MinistrieslocalBC · funds 14 organizations near you
- Chapel of Christ the KinglocalAB · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Medicine Hat Evangelical AssociationlocalAB · funds 4 organizations near you
- Medicine Hat Symphonic SocietylocalAB · funds 3 organizations near you
- Medicine Hat CollegelocalAB · 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 BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 47% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT 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.
Where the money goes
97% of spending goes to programs.
Questions and answers
- Who funds BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT?
- BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT (Alberta) receives grants from 23 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,278,590 to it, the largest being CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION (C$727,112). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 23 organizations giving C$1,278,590 in grants to BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT, 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT?
- CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$727,112 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BIG BROTHERS/BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT 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 23 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