Alberta · Registered charity
BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (Alberta) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,856,546 to it, the largest being SUNCOR ENERGY FOUNDATION/FONDATION SUNCOR ENERGIE (C$1,697,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2.9M to it.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 300 educational orgs n.e.c. 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.
- Werklund Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Flanagan Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Holy Cross Anglican Churchlocal
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 19% · 2018 1% · 2019 0% · 2020 37% · 2021 19% · 2022 13% · 2023 5% · 2024 7%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
83% of BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 8 funders to 9 funders, grant income fell C$380k → C$323k.
From the CRA filings of BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT’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
BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 59% · 2018 50% · 2019 73% · 2020 39% · 2021 52% · 2022 79% · 2023 62% — 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
36% of BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% 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
86% of BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT'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$64k 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 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Werklund Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 45 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Flanagan Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Holy Cross Anglican ChurchlocalAB · funds 5 organizations near you
- Aeonian Support for Humanitarian Charities Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Silver Gummyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unitarian Church of Calgaryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Taking It Global Youth Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calgary Association of Lifelong Learnersportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canadian Race Relations Foundation - Fondation Canadienne Des Relations Racialesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rose FoundationlocalAB · funds 3 organizations near you
- Cklas FoundationlocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Bowness Congregation of Jehovah's Witnesses Calgary 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 BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 7% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT?
- BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT (Alberta) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,856,546 to it, the largest being SUNCOR ENERGY FOUNDATION/FONDATION SUNCOR ENERGIE (C$1,697,500). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 21 organizations giving C$2,856,546 in grants to BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT?
- SUNCOR ENERGY FOUNDATION/FONDATION SUNCOR ENERGIE is the largest funder on record, with C$1,697,500 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENT 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 21 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