Alberta · Registered charity
BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY
BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,943,523 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA (C$2,164,448). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 4,483 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,483 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2022
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.
- St David's United Church Foundation of Calgarylocal
- Cause We Care Foundationportfolio match
- Troop Impact 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: 2017 61% · 2018 70% · 2019 44% · 2020 32% · 2021 9% · 2022 19%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
100% of BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES 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. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose C$140k → C$739k.
From the CRA filings of BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 9 of 10 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
BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 91% · 2018 53% · 2019 99% · 2020 99% · 2021 67% · 2022 98% — 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.
How long its funders stay
33% of BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 90% 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 FY2022, 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
100% of BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY's grant income comes from Alberta funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. 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 10 funders put you under-funded among the 298 organizations that share them.
- St David's United Church Foundation of CalgarylocalAB · funds 4 organizations near you
- Cause We Care Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Troop Impact Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Federation of Community Social Services Society of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bc Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greater Vancouver Food Bank Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- H W Siebens Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Canada Deuxième Récolte Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Central Okanagan Community Foodbank Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Right To Foodportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Raising the Roof Chez Toitportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropieportfolio 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 BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 19% of FY2022 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES 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
30% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY?
- BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,943,523 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA (C$2,164,448). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 10 organizations giving C$2,943,523 in grants to BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY?
- UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA is the largest funder on record, with C$2,164,448 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BOWWEST COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES SOCIETY 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 FY2022 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 10 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