Alberta · Registered charity
THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION
THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 23 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,805,548 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$530,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 208 foundations advancing education nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 208 foundations advancing education nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Children's Hospital Aid Societyshared funderslocal
- The Brawn Family Foundation.portfolio 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 23% · 2018 22% · 2019 24% · 2020 19% · 2021 8% · 2023 13% · 2024 9%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
8% of THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (48% 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 11 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose C$72k → C$211k.
From the CRA filings of THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 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
THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 72% · 2019 75% · 2020 59% · 2021 57% · 2022 83% · 2023 59% — 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
50% of THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION'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
THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION draws 59% 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$732k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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 23 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 8 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Hospital Aid Societyshared funderslocalAB · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · funds 10 organizations near you
- The Brawn Family Foundation.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Taylor Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- M-E Squared Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dianne and Irving Kipnes Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Michael and Inna O'Brian Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Somar Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bonnie & Daryl Howard Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Calgary Rotary Clubs Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calgary Lodge Menorah Charitable FoundationlocalAB · funds 5 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 THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 9% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION?
- THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 23 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,805,548 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$530,000). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 23 organizations giving C$1,805,548 in grants to THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION?
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$530,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA FOUNDATION 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 23 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