Alberta · Registered charity
Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society
Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society (Alberta) receives grants from 49 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,817,462 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$811,079). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society's revenue grew 56% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.
- The Brenda Strafford Foundation Ltd.local
- Health Partners International of Canada / Partenaires canadiens pour la santé internationaleportfolio match
- Blossom 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.
90% of Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% 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 broadened from 20 funders to 23 funders, grant income fell C$318k → C$310k.
From the CRA filings of Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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
Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 29% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 25% · 2018 40% · 2019 36% · 2020 17% · 2021 26% · 2022 24% · 2023 28% — 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
47% of Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 71% 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
Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society draws 70% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 5 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. Your 49 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Brenda Strafford Foundation Ltd.localAB · funds 3 organizations near you
- Health Partners International of Canada / Partenaires canadiens pour la santé internationaleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Blossom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Delta Pentecostal Tabernacleportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Luke Four Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Acts of Grace Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Provident Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kingston Gospel Temple Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ross Ulmer Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Celtic Cross Charitable Foundation Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Canadian Mission Board of the Church of God in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wood's Homes FoundationlocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
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 Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) 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
95% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society?
- Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society (Alberta) receives grants from 49 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,817,462 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$811,079). 35 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 49 organizations giving C$2,817,462 in grants to Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society, 35 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) Society?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$811,079 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Hands At Work In Africa (Canada) 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 49 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