Alberta · Registered charity
CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON
CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON (Alberta) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$57,512 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$22,199). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON's revenue fell 55% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,630 support of religion nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- La communauté des soeurs de charité de la providencelocal
- Calgary Centre for Spiritual Livingportfolio match
- New Beginnings Family Church Calgaryportfolio 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.
10% of CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (100% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2021: the base narrowed from 7 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell C$20k → C$427.
From the CRA filings of CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON’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
CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% of grant income and the top three 79%; 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 CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 41% · 2019 47% · 2020 62% · 2021 79% — 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.
Where its funders are
CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON draws 72% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 5 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$4k 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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- La communauté des soeurs de charité de la providencelocalQC · funds 6 organizations near you
- Calgary Centre for Spiritual Livingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Beginnings Family Church Calgaryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mosaichouse Christian Reformed Church of Edmonton Albertaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- City Centre Community Renewal Initiatives Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Samuel Cheng Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- City View Christian Centreportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Home Church - Red Deer Albertaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Covenant Christian Reformed Church of Edmontonportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- North American Word Outreach Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hope City Church (Edmonton)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sisters of Charity of Providence of CalgarylocalAB · funds 3 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.
Organizations like CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON?
- CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON (Alberta) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$57,512 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$22,199). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$57,512 in grants to CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$22,199 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CENTRE FOR EVANGELICAL SPIRITUAL FORMATION OF EDMONTON 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 7 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