Alberta · Registered charity
GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM SOCIETY
GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$10,952 to it, the largest being LETHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$6,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 1,990 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,990 public amenities 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.
- Friends of the Helen Schuler Nature Centre Societylocal
- Dogwood Heritage Society of B.C.portfolio match
- West Kootenay Regional Arts Councilportfolio 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 33% · 2019 47% · 2020 82% · 2021 83% · 2022 66% · 2023 62% · 2024 67%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
18% of GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (10% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$7k → C$1k.
From the CRA filings of GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM 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
GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 55% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 86% · 2018 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.
Where its funders are
55% of GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM SOCIETY's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$5k that is directly attributable, 56% of it comes from Alberta funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$6k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Friends of the Helen Schuler Nature Centre SocietylocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Dogwood Heritage Society of B.C.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Kootenay Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Audain Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Trust for Canada / Fiducie Nationale Du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deux Mille Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rozsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Big Grass Community Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Arts Councilportfolio 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 GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 67% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM 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
84% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM SOCIETY?
- GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$10,952 to it, the largest being LETHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$6,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 55% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$10,952 in grants to GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM SOCIETY?
- LETHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$6,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like GEM OF THE WEST MUSEUM 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