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CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY

CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 32 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,346,152 to it, the largest being Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canada (C$484,346). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$3.7M
Revenue FY2024
32
Funders on record
C$1.3M
Grants received
C$1.1M
Net assets
18/32 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 11%

Against its field

CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 16 as grant income climbed.

Operating margin−4% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.5mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,132 community resource 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$2.8M) Expenses 100 (C$2.8M) Net assets 100 (C$881k)2018 Revenue 102 (C$2.8M) Expenses 108 (C$3.0M) Net assets 82 (C$727k)2019 Revenue 109 (C$3.0M) Expenses 111 (C$3.1M) Net assets 77 (C$683k)2020 Revenue 116 (C$3.2M) Expenses 115 (C$3.2M) Net assets 80 (C$702k)2021 Revenue 164 (C$4.5M) Expenses 132 (C$3.6M) Net assets 195 (C$1.7M)2022 Revenue 128 (C$3.5M) Expenses 135 (C$3.7M) Net assets 174 (C$1.5M)2023 Revenue 130 (C$3.6M) Expenses 135 (C$3.7M) Net assets 145 (C$1.3M)2024 Revenue 132 (C$3.7M) Expenses 138 (C$3.8M) Net assets 123 (C$1.1M)
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Revenue (132)Expenses (138)Net assets (123)Peer revenue range

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.

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2020
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 57% · 2018 67% · 2019 69% · 2020 64% · 2021 48% · 2022 63% · 2023 72% · 2024 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

71% of CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (4% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 849 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$10k
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−C$154k
’18
−C$44k
’19
C$19k
’20
C$912k
’21
−C$191k
’22
−C$140k
’23
−C$152k
’24
1.5
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 16 funders, grant income rose C$118k → C$409k.

Funder
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'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$134k
Calgary Flames Foundationunclassified
C$25k
The Calgary Foundationunclassified
C$3k
Atco Electric Epicunclassified
C$2k
funders
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12
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16
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From the CRA filings of CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 32 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

CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 80%; 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 CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY.

36%
largest funder
80%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 80% · 2018 76% · 2019 67% · 2020 68% · 2021 57% · 2022 40% · 2023 76% — 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

47% of CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY draws 52% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 3 regions in all.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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Alberta out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$8k 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.

03Its place in the field

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 32 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$2.4M
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  • 65% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY

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

The Central Alberta Women's Emergency Shelter Society77%Cochrane Women's Emergency Shelter Society76%Yellowhead Emergency Shelter for Women Society75%Creating Hope Society of Alberta74%Central Alberta Victim and Witness Support Society73%Niitoiyis Family Support Society72%Victory Outreach Foundation72%Calgary Young Women's Christian Association71%

Nationally

The Central Alberta Women's Emergency Shelter Society77%Cochrane Women's Emergency Shelter Society76%Yellowhead Emergency Shelter for Women Society75%Creating Hope Society of Alberta74%Central Alberta Victim and Witness Support Society73%Valley Community Services Society72%Desert Sun Counselling and Resource Centre Society72%Niitoiyis Family Support Society72%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

82% of spending goes to programs.

Program 82%Management 8%Fundraising 10%

Governance

8
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY?
CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 32 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,346,152 to it, the largest being Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canada (C$484,346). 18 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 32 organizations giving C$1,346,152 in grants to CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY, 18 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY?
Women's Shelters Canada / Hébergement femmes Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$484,346 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CENTRAL ALBERTA OUTREACH SOCIETY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.

Play a game about who funds Central Alberta Outreach Society →

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 32 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