Alberta · Registered charity
DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION
DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$536,780 to it, the largest being THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PRIV ACT (C$292,248). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 151 relief of the aged nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 151 relief of the aged 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.
- Royal Alexandra Hospital Employees Charitable Donation Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fundshared funderslocal
- United Way of Central Alberta Societyportfolio 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 58% · 2018 52% · 2019 53% · 2020 58% · 2021 37% · 2022 55% · 2023 48% · 2024 65%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (8% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$1k → C$24k.
From the CRA filings of DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS 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
DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 54% of grant income and the top three 77%; 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 DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 45% · 2019 83% · 2020 71% · 2021 37% · 2022 84% · 2023 83% — 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
38% of DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 43% give in more than one year at all.
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
54% of DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS 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$245k that is directly attributable, 77% of it comes from Alberta funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$292k 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 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Royal Alexandra Hospital Employees Charitable Donation Fundshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fundshared funderslocalAB · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 5 organizations near you
- United Way of Central Alberta Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Home Instead Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Angela and Collin Herbers Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South-West Senior's Outreach Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Masonic Foundation of Albertaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Totem Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Central Albertaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Jackie Pennock Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Edmonton Oilers Community Foundationshared fundersAB · backs 128 organizations that share your funders
- St Paul's Foundation (Edmonton)shared fundersAB · backs 26 organizations that share your funders
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 DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 65% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS 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
94% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION?
- DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$536,780 to it, the largest being THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PRIV ACT (C$292,248). 9 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 54% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 21 organizations giving C$536,780 in grants to DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION, 9 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION?
- THE EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION PRIV ACT is the largest funder on record, with C$292,248 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS 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 21 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