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CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS

CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS (Alberta) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$590,973 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH OF IRON SPRINGS, ALBERTA (C$105,037). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$179k
Revenue FY2024
14
Funders on record
C$591k
Grants received
—
Net assets
11/14 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 47%

Against its field

CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin−30% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve2.3mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,262 support of religion 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.

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$177k) Expenses 100 (C$202k)2018 Revenue 141 (C$251k) Expenses 108 (C$219k)2019 Revenue 99 (C$175k) Expenses 102 (C$205k)2020 Revenue 136 (C$240k) Expenses 93 (C$188k)2021 Revenue 125 (C$221k) Expenses 92 (C$186k)2022 Revenue 102 (C$181k) Expenses 116 (C$234k)2023 Revenue 102 (C$180k) Expenses 119 (C$241k)2024 Revenue 101 (C$179k) Expenses 115 (C$233k)
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Revenue (101)Expenses (115)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

97% of CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (86% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 1,239 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$25k
’17
C$32k
’18
−C$31k
’19
C$53k
’20
C$35k
’21
−C$53k
’22
−C$60k
’23
−C$53k
’24
2.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 10 funders to 8 funders, grant income rose C$74k → C$78k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Christian Reformed Churchunclassified
C$47k
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$27k
funders
10
11
10
10
8
8
8
9

From the CRA filings of CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS’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

CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS.

18%
largest funder
44%
top three
~9
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 17% · 2018 17% · 2019 16% · 2020 16% · 2021 21% · 2022 30% · 2023 29% — 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

77% of CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 79% 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

72% of CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS's grant income comes from Alberta funders.

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
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.

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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 266 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.

Organizations like CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS

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 Association Classis Alberta North of the Christian Reformed Church in North America86%Canadian Reformed Church of Calgary76%The Western Canadian District of the Christian and Missionary Alliance76%Chinook Winds Region - The United Church of Canada76%Calgary Catholic Charismatic Renewal Society75%Baptist General Conference in Alberta75%Ecumenical Chaplains Committeeof Calgary75%Alberta Synod Evangelical Lutheran Church in Canada74%

Nationally

The Association Classis Alberta North of the Christian Reformed Church in North America86%Classis of Ontario Inc. the Reformed Church in America82%Crcna Classis Ministry Association of South-East British Columbia79%Classis Eastern Canada of the Christian Reformed Church in North America79%Classis Huron of the Christian Reformed Church in North America77%Classis Hamilton of the Christian Reformed Church77%Classis of British Columbia Reformed Church in America76%The Christian Reformed Church in North America-Canada Corporation76%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

87% of spending goes to programs.

Program 87%Management 13%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS?
CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS (Alberta) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$590,973 to it, the largest being CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH OF IRON SPRINGS, ALBERTA (C$105,037). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$590,973 in grants to CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS?
CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH OF IRON SPRINGS, ALBERTA is the largest funder on record, with C$105,037 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like CLASSIS ALBERTA SOUTH AND SASKATCHEWAN OF CHRISTIAN REFORMEDCHURCHS 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 14 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