Alberta · Registered charity
FREEDOM TREE
FREEDOM TREE (Alberta) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$420,898 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$146,832). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FREEDOM TREE's revenue grew 73% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 300 educational orgs n.e.c. 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.
- Ptarmigan Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Jesus Christ Saves Global Outreach Church of Canadalocal
- Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario Humanity Fundportfolio 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 37% · 2018 22% · 2019 11% · 2020 14% · 2021 25% · 2022 23% · 2023 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
87% of FREEDOM TREE’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (23% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income fell C$85k → C$39k.
From the CRA filings of FREEDOM TREE’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
FREEDOM TREE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 35% of grant income and the top three 92%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 FREEDOM TREE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 49% · 2019 49% · 2020 52% · 2021 75% · 2022 59% · 2023 65% — 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.
How long its funders stay
42% of FREEDOM TREE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 77% 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
72% of FREEDOM TREE'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 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Ptarmigan Charitable Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Jesus Christ Saves Global Outreach Church of CanadalocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Elementary Teachers' Federation of Ontario Humanity Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blossom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Council for International Co-Operation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The David and Patricia Morton Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- R.R. Smith Memorial Fund Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- New Life Community Church Trust Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bernhard Melitz Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Circle Actsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Luke Four Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Streetsville United Churchportfolio 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 FREEDOM TREE reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 12% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like FREEDOM TREE
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
81% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FREEDOM TREE?
- FREEDOM TREE (Alberta) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$420,898 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$146,832). 10 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FREEDOM TREE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 13 organizations giving C$420,898 in grants to FREEDOM TREE, 10 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FREEDOM TREE?
- Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne is the largest funder on record, with C$146,832 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FREEDOM TREE 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 13 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