Alberta · Registered charity
FARMING SMARTER ASSOCIATION
FARMING SMARTER ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$366,632 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$220,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FARMING SMARTER ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 380 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 380 arts nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- United Way of Lethbridge & South Western Alberta Societylocal
- Endswell 2021 Foundationportfolio match
- Ducks Unlimited Canada/Canards Illimites Canadaportfolio 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 26% · 2018 27% · 2019 33% · 2020 47% · 2021 59% · 2022 36% · 2023 15% · 2024 39%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
0% of FARMING SMARTER ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (10% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$851 → C$108k.
From the CRA filings of FARMING SMARTER 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
FARMING SMARTER ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 60% 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 FARMING SMARTER ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2022 62% · 2023 65% — 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
FARMING SMARTER ASSOCIATION draws 99% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 2 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
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.
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.
- United Way of Lethbridge & South Western Alberta SocietylocalAB · funds 19 organizations near you
- Endswell 2021 Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ducks Unlimited Canada/Canards Illimites Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Alberta Ecotrust Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Conservation Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour la Nature Can Adaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ilderton Agricultural Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Salmon Foundation/Fondation Du Saumon Du Pacifiqueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Junior Farmers' Association of Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Marguerite Hubbard Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Dragonfly Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Sitka Foundationportfolio 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 FARMING SMARTER ASSOCIATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 39% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like FARMING SMARTER 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
85% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FARMING SMARTER ASSOCIATION?
- FARMING SMARTER ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 4 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$366,632 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$220,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FARMING SMARTER ASSOCIATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 4 organizations giving C$366,632 in grants to FARMING SMARTER ASSOCIATION, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FARMING SMARTER ASSOCIATION?
- RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FARMING SMARTER 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 4 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