Alberta · Registered charity
FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY
FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$13,277 to it, the largest being KIMBERLEY FOUNDATION (C$5,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY's funding base is broadening — from 2 funders to 4 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,067 foundations 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.
- Manor Gospel Churchlocal
- The Ontario Genealogical Societyportfolio match
- British Columbia Courthouse Library Societyportfolio 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.
27% of FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 6 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose C$97 → C$834.
From the CRA filings of FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 5 of 6 funders by total. 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
FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 38% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 100% · 2019 99% · 2020 80% · 2021 46% · 2022 73% · 2023 67% — 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.
Where its funders are
FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY draws 63% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 3 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.
- Manor Gospel ChurchlocalAB · funds 8 organizations near you
- The Ontario Genealogical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- British Columbia Courthouse Library Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lethbridge Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ross W McNeil Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Battle River Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Perth and District Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kinsmen Club of Lindsay Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Osprey Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Rotary Clubs of Kings County Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Parksville - Qualicum Community 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.
Organizations like FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY 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.
Where the money goes
100% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY?
- FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$13,277 to it, the largest being KIMBERLEY FOUNDATION (C$5,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$13,277 in grants to FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY SOCIETY?
- KIMBERLEY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$5,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like FRIENDS OF CARSTAIRS PUBLIC LIBRARY 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 6 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