Alberta · Registered charity
BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SOCIETY
BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$634,774 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$429,515). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT 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.
- Banff Canmore Community Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- The Masonic Foundation of Albertaportfolio match
- Red Deer Food Bank 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.
99% of BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations 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. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose C$27k → C$102k.
From the CRA filings of BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT 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
BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 68% of grant income and the top three 90%; 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 BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 85% · 2018 73% · 2019 76% · 2020 61% · 2021 65% · 2022 48% · 2023 60% — 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
50% of BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SOCIETY draws 73% 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$47k 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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 280 organizations that share them.
- Banff Canmore Community Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchAB · backs 24 organizations that share your funders · funds 22 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Masonic Foundation of Albertaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Red Deer Food Bank Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Central Albertaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Alberta Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Calgary Rotary Clubs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Giles Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Western Communities Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Good Shepherd Community Church of Calgary (Moravian)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wim and Nancy Pauw Foundationshared funderslocalAB · backs 14 organizations that share your funders · funds 12 organizations near you
- Wolfe Pack Warriors FoundationlocalAB · funds 6 organizations near you
- St Paul's Presbyterian ChurchlocalAB · funds 2 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.
Organizations like BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SOCIETY?
- BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$634,774 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$429,515). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$634,774 in grants to BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SOCIETY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT SOCIETY?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$429,515 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOW VALLEY CHRISTMAS SPIRIT 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 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