Alberta · Registered charity
THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD.
THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD. (Alberta) receives grants from 31 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,615,428 to it, the largest being CALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION (C$952,446). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$115M
- Funders on record
- 31
- Grants received
- C$1.6M
- Net assets
- C$141M
What The Brenda Strafford Foundation Ltd. does
Ongoing programs
Canadian: 1. Operating long-term care facilities 2. Operating seniors assisted living facilities 3. Operating center for prevention of domestic violence 4. Operating an adult day program 5. Operating a home that provides transitional housing for families Foreign: 6. Haiti-operating an medical center 7. Jamaica - Supporting a medical center and care home 8. Dominica - Supporting the operation of an eye clinic
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2020 to 2021, from C$248M to C$269M (+9%).
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 65% · 2018 60% · 2019 65% · 2020 64% · 2021 67% · 2022 66% · 2023 66% · 2024 63%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD.’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell C$978k → C$140k.
From the CRA filings of THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD.’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 28 of 31 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
THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 81%; 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 THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD..
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 97% · 2018 76% · 2019 75% · 2020 40% · 2021 70% · 2022 27% · 2023 52% — 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
43% of THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD.'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 45% 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
91% of THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD.'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$66k 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.
Against its field
THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD.'s revenue grew 45% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 146 core health care nonprofits over $100M, FY2024
Government revenue THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD. reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 63% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD.
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 THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD.?
- THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD. (Alberta) receives grants from 31 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,615,428 to it, the largest being CALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION (C$952,446). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD. have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 31 organizations giving C$1,615,428 in grants to THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD., 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD.?
- CALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$952,446 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION LTD. 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 31 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register