Alberta · Registered charity
EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE
EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE (Alberta) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$7,680 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA (C$7,180). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE has grown faster than three-quarters of the 3,180 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,180 public amenities nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- First United Churchlocal
- Aberdeen Health and Community Services Foundationportfolio match
- Helpage Canada - / Aide Aux Aînes (Canada)portfolio 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 62% · 2019 59% · 2020 83% · 2021 84% · 2022 54% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
16% of EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (28% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2021: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$2k → C$3k.
From the CRA filings of EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE’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
EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 93% 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 EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 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.
Where its funders are
93% of EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE'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$500 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Alberta funders.
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$7k 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.
- First United ChurchlocalAB · funds 4 organizations near you
- Aberdeen Health and Community Services Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helpage Canada - / Aide Aux Aînes (Canada)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Second Harvest Canada Deuxième Récolte Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Brands for Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Canadian Bridge Federation Charitable Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Home Instead Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Right To Foodportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Georgina Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mealshare Aid Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mazon Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Carman Area Foundation Incportfolio 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 EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 66% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE?
- EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE (Alberta) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$7,680 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA (C$7,180). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 93% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 2 organizations giving C$7,680 in grants to EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA is the largest funder on record, with C$7,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like EMPRESS FRIENDSHIP CENTRE 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