Alberta · Registered charity
Cause And Effect Foundation
Cause And Effect Foundation (Alberta) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$34,271 to it, the largest being CALGARY FLAMES FOUNDATION (C$8,826). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Cause And Effect Foundation runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Rozsa Foundationlocal
- Goodlife Kids Foundationportfolio match
- Els For Autism Canadaportfolio 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 99% · 2018 98% · 2019 98% · 2020 99% · 2021 100% · 2022 98% · 2023 89% · 2024 85%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of Cause And Effect Foundation’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue 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. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell C$4k → C$132.
From the CRA filings of Cause And Effect 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
Cause And Effect Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 26% 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 Cause And Effect Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 50% · 2018 42% · 2019 36% · 2020 54% · 2021 73% — 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 Cause And Effect Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 40% 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 FY2021, 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
55% of Cause And Effect Foundation'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 400 organizations that share them.
- Rozsa FoundationlocalAB · funds 9 organizations near you
- Goodlife Kids Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Els For Autism Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Unity for Autismportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sandbox Project Charityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mlse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Global Change for Children Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- East Meets West Children's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Yellow Bus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canadaportfolio 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 Cause And Effect Foundation reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 85% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Cause And Effect 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
79% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Cause And Effect Foundation?
- Cause And Effect Foundation (Alberta) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$34,271 to it, the largest being CALGARY FLAMES FOUNDATION (C$8,826). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Cause And Effect Foundation have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 10 organizations giving C$34,271 in grants to Cause And Effect Foundation, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Cause And Effect Foundation?
- CALGARY FLAMES FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$8,826 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Cause And Effect 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 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