Alberta · Registered charity
CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$17,688 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA (C$10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION's revenue grew 36% between 2017 and 2024.
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.
- Alberta Conservation Associationshared fundersportfolio match
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Adashared fundersportfolio match
- The Sitka Foundationshared fundersportfolio 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 51% · 2018 56% · 2019 68% · 2020 73% · 2021 72% · 2022 68% · 2023 55% · 2024 64%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
14% of CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (4% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.
From the CRA filings of CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION’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
CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 57% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION.
“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
57% of CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$8k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from funders outside Alberta, across 1 region.
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$10k 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.
- Alberta Conservation Associationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 8 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Adashared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 16 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Sitka Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 9 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- First United ChurchlocalAB · funds 4 organizations near you
- The Alberta Ecotrust Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Eden Conservation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glasswaters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Nature Canada / Canada Natureportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Wildlife Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greenbelt Foundationportfolio 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 CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 64% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION?
- CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$17,688 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA (C$10,000). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 57% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 2 organizations giving C$17,688 in grants to CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION.
- Who is the largest funder of CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA is the largest funder on record, with C$10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CHINOOK APPLIED RESEARCH ASSOCIATION 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 2 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