Alberta · Registered charity
BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION
BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$8,060,444 to it, the largest being THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PRIV ACT (C$8,040,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,990 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,990 public amenities 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.
- Crossway Community Church Canmorelocal
- National Trust for Canada / Fiducie Nationale Du Canadaportfolio match
- Dogwood Heritage Society of B.C.portfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2020, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2020, 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.
98% of BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (10% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 5 funders, grant income fell C$4.0M → C$764k.
From the CRA filings of BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION’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
BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% · 2023 98% — 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.
Where its funders are
100% of BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION'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$13k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from Alberta funders.
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$8.0M 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.
- Crossway Community Church CanmorelocalAB · funds 6 organizations near you
- National Trust for Canada / Fiducie Nationale Du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Dogwood Heritage Society of B.C.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dalglish Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- View West Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Takla Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mitchell Legacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Nature Conservancy of Canada/La Societe Canadienne Pour la Conservation de la Natureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Catherine and Fredrik Eaton Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wilson Foundation la Fondation Wilsonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The William and Jean Teron Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Douglas 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 BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 0% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION
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
51% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$8,060,444 to it, the largest being THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PRIV ACT (C$8,040,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 100% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$8,060,444 in grants to BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION?
- THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PRIV ACT is the largest funder on record, with C$8,040,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION 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 2020–2024), 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