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FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC.

FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC. (Alberta) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$10,728 to it, the largest being WELLS FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$10,700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

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Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
C$11k
Grants received
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Net assets
0/3 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC.'s funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Revenue growth (annualized)−41% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 484 teaching institutions 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.

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$25k) Expenses 100 (C$26k)2018 Revenue 107 (C$27k) Expenses 101 (C$26k)2019 Revenue 45 (C$11k) Expenses 8 (C$2k)2020 Revenue 40 (C$10k) Expenses 15 (C$4k)2021 Revenue 7 (C$2k) Expenses 9 (C$2k)2022 Revenue 7 (C$2k) Expenses 7 (C$2k)2023 Expenses 16 (C$4k)2024
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Revenue (7)Expenses (16)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
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 39% · 2021 3% · 2022 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

0% of FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC.’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (77% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 484 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$705
’17
C$820
’18
C$9k
’19
C$6k
’20
−C$499
’21
−C$98
’22
’23
’24
2.3
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2020: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose C$19 → C$11k.

Funder
'17
'18
'20
total
Wells Family Foundationunclassified
C$11k
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$19
funders
1
1
1

From the CRA filings of FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC.’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

FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 100% 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 FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC..

100%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 100% — broadly stable.

“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

100% of FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC.'s grant income comes from Alberta funders.

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

’17
’18
’20
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.

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 FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC. reports

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

FY2022C$40
20
21
22
  • 2% of FY2022 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC.

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

People International Canada68%First Nations Adult and Higher Education Consortium65%First Nations Alliance Church64%First Presbyterian Church63%Primrose Place Family Centre Association62%Napi Friendship Association62%Foundation Baptist College62%First Baptist Church62%

Nationally

First Nation's Pentecostal Churches Inc.76%People Players Inc.72%The First Nations Technical Institute71%Fraternite de L'Epi Inc.69%First Presbyterian Church69%P E I People First69%First Nations Technology Charitable Society68%First Nations University of Canada Inc.68%
04Profile & governance

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

Governance

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board members

Questions and answers

Who funds FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC.?
FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC. (Alberta) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$10,728 to it, the largest being WELLS FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$10,700). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC. have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$10,728 in grants to FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC..
Who is the largest funder of FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC.?
WELLS FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$10,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like FIRST PEOPLES' INSTITUTE INC. 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 First Peoples' Institute →

These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2022), and the filings of 3 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