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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.

C$868k
Revenue FY2024
21
Funders on record
C$537k
Grants received
C$441k
Net assets
9/21 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 31%

Against its field

DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 151 relief of the aged nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve11.8mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · above the median

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.

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$360k) Expenses 100 (C$427k) Net assets -88 (C$-90812)2018 Revenue 139 (C$500k) Expenses 108 (C$462k) Net assets -50 (C$-51939)2019 Revenue 178 (C$642k) Expenses 114 (C$486k) Net assets 100 (C$104k)2020 Revenue 200 (C$718k) Expenses 116 (C$495k) Net assets 315 (C$327k)2021 Revenue 159 (C$573k) Expenses 131 (C$560k) Net assets 405 (C$420k)2022 Revenue 213 (C$767k) Expenses 184 (C$785k) Net assets 499 (C$518k)2023 Revenue 169 (C$606k) Expenses 161 (C$688k) Net assets 363 (C$377k)2024 Revenue 241 (C$868k) Expenses 188 (C$805k) Net assets 425 (C$441k)
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Revenue (241)Expenses (188)Net assets (425)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.

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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

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).

This organization
Typical peer · 144 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$67k
’17
C$39k
’18
C$156k
’19
C$223k
’20
C$13k
’21
−C$18k
’22
−C$82k
’23
C$64k
’24
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months of
reserve
02Who funds it

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.

54%
largest funder
77%
top three
~3
effective funders

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.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

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Alberta out of province

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.

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 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 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.

Government revenue DRIVE HAPPINESS SENIORS ASSOCIATION reports

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

FY2024C$564k
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  • 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

04Profile & 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 1%

Governance

9
board members

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.

Play a game about who funds Drive Happiness Seniors Association →

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