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CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY

CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY (Alberta) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$116,449 to it, the largest being THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY / LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (C$101,841). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

Revenue FY2021
C$303k
Funders on record
6
Grants received
C$116k
Net assets
C$64k
2/6 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 34%
01What it does

What Choices Association of Fort McMurray does

Ongoing programs

The organization's mandate is to support individuals who have a wide range of barriers and/or limitations to employment including physical/mental challenges health issues mental health issues learning disabilities acquired brain injury alcohol-related birth defects and any other issue/condition which makes securing and maintaining a job difficult or impossible and any other possible barriers that older citizens or newcomers may have with securing and maintaining a job. The organization offers career and employment counseling training and skill enhancement programs and an up-to-date job board which lists all local opportunities.

As stated on its FY2021 T3010.

02The 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 2018 Revenue 100 (C$880k) Expenses 100 (C$1.1M) Net assets 0 (C$0)2019 Revenue 93 (C$819k) Expenses 86 (C$941k) Net assets 100 (C$214k)2020 Revenue 86 (C$753k) Expenses 76 (C$825k) Net assets 66 (C$142k)2021 Revenue 34 (C$303k) Expenses 35 (C$380k) Net assets 30 (C$64k)
20172018201920202021
Revenue (34)Expenses (35)Net assets (30)Peer revenue range

Balance sheet

Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2019 to 2020, from C$431k to C$246k (−43%).

C$611k
C$431k
C$246k
C$66k
2018201920202021
Total assetsTotal liabilities

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2018 92% · 2019 81% · 2020 76% · 2021 48%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

70% of CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 905 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.

’17
−C$209k
’18
−C$122k
’19
−C$72k
’20
−C$77k
’21
1.7
months of
reserve

Leadership and staff

The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.

20182019
Listed66
Joined·+0
No longer listed·0
03Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2022: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$3k → C$750.

From the CRA filings of CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY’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

CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 87% of grant income and the top three 99%; 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 CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY.

87%
largest funder
99%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 35% · 2018 57% · 2019 64% · 2020 77% · 2021 99% · 2022 100% — 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

CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY draws 93% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 4 regions in all.

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

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’22
Alberta out of province

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.

04Its place in the field

Against its field

CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY's revenue fell 66% between 2018 and 2021.

Operating margin−25% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve1.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−30% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 931 core health care nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2021

Government revenue CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY reports

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

FY2021C$146k
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  • 48% of FY2021 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY

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.

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05Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Questions and answers

Who funds CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY?
CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY (Alberta) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$116,449 to it, the largest being THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY / LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (C$101,841). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$116,449 in grants to CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY?
THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY / LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DE LA CROIX-ROUGE is the largest funder on record, with C$101,841 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CHOICES ASSOCIATION OF FORT MCMURRAY find more funders?
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These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2021 (financials across 2018–2021), and the filings of 6 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register