Alberta · Registered charity
DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY
DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY (Alberta) receives grants from 67 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$17,275,670 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA (C$7,994,874). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 396 core health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 396 core health care nonprofits $10M–$100M, 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.
- Three Sisters Charitable Foundationlocal
- Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Societyportfolio match
- Gerald A. Cooper-Key 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 52% · 2018 54% · 2019 60% · 2020 51% · 2021 52% · 2022 58% · 2023 48% · 2024 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
96% of DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (1% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 24 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose C$1.8M → C$2.4M.
From the CRA filings of DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 67 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
DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 46% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 64% · 2018 61% · 2019 59% · 2020 52% · 2021 44% · 2022 44% · 2023 45% — 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
35% of DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 60% 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
96% of DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY'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$111k 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 67 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Three Sisters Charitable FoundationlocalAB · funds 4 organizations near you
- Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Gerald A. Cooper-Key Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calgary Real Estate Board Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ffca Charter School SocietylocalAB · funds 5 organizations near you
- St Mary's UniversitylocalAB · funds 4 organizations near you
- Escuela Glenmeadows School SocietylocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Norrep FoundationlocalAB · funds 5 organizations near you
- True Buddha Pai Yuin TemplelocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Junior League of CalgarylocalAB · funds 3 organizations near you
- William Aberhart Music Parents AssociationlocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Linkages Society of AlbertalocalAB · 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.
Government revenue DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 48% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY
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 DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY?
- DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY (Alberta) receives grants from 67 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$17,275,670 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA (C$7,994,874). 40 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 67 organizations giving C$17,275,670 in grants to DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY, 40 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY?
- UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA is the largest funder on record, with C$7,994,874 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY 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 67 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