Alberta · Registered charity
FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY
FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$49,857 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$33,354). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,881 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,881 community resource 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.
- Lethbridge Community Foundationlocalportfolio match
- ATB Investor Services Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Hindle Family Foundationportfolio 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 46% · 2018 29% · 2020 18% · 2024 34%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
21% of FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$13k → C$6k.
From the CRA filings of FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY’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
FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 79% · 2018 62% · 2019 89% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — growing more concentrated.
“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
13% of FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 38% 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
92% of FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY's grant income comes from Alberta funders.
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. Your 8 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Lethbridge Community Foundationlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 41 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- ATB Investor Services Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 44 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Hindle Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The J.C. Anderson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Banff Canmore Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Central Albertaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hop Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Totem Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Board of Trustees of Sturgeon School Division 24portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of the Kootenay Rockiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- B. Stefanich 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 FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 34% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY
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 FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY?
- FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$49,857 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$33,354). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 8 organizations giving C$49,857 in grants to FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY?
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne is the largest funder on record, with C$33,354 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FOOTHILLS SEARCH AND RESCUE SOCIETY 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 8 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