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TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY

TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY (Alberta) receives grants from 28 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,480,426 to it, the largest being THE GWYN MORGAN AND PATRICIA TROTTIER FOUNDATION (C$995,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$2.5M
Revenue FY2024
28
Funders on record
C$2.5M
Grants received
C$842k
Net assets
14/28 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 59%

Against its field

TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−7% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.8mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)83% · top quartile

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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$36k) Expenses 100 (C$7k)2018 Revenue 1396 (C$503k) Expenses 6146 (C$432k) Net assets 100 (C$101k)2019 Revenue 2750 (C$990k) Expenses 13223 (C$930k) Net assets 160 (C$161k)2020 Revenue 3335 (C$1.2M) Expenses 14859 (C$1.0M) Net assets 313 (C$316k)2021 Revenue 5110 (C$1.8M) Expenses 21515 (C$1.5M) Net assets 637 (C$643k)2022 Revenue 5583 (C$2.0M) Expenses 24675 (C$1.7M) Net assets 909 (C$917k)2023 Revenue 6543 (C$2.4M) Expenses 32159 (C$2.3M) Net assets 1001 (C$1.0M)2024 Revenue 6969 (C$2.5M) Expenses 38058 (C$2.7M) Net assets 834 (C$842k)
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Revenue (6969)Expenses (38058)Net assets (834)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

43% of TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,313 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$29k
’17
C$70k
’18
C$60k
’19
C$155k
’20
C$326k
’21
C$274k
’22
C$93k
’23
−C$168k
’24
4.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 13 funders, grant income rose C$18k → C$323k.

From the CRA filings of TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY’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

TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 74%; 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 TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY.

40%
largest funder
74%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 56% · 2019 36% · 2020 97% · 2021 46% · 2022 48% · 2023 77% — diversifying over time.

“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

20% of TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 50% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y

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

TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY draws 50% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 3 regions in all.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’18
’19
’20
’21
’22
’23
Alberta out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$23k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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.

03Its place in the field

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 28 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2018C$0
  • 0% of FY2018 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY

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

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 3%Fundraising 3%

Governance

4
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY?
TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY (Alberta) receives grants from 28 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,480,426 to it, the largest being THE GWYN MORGAN AND PATRICIA TROTTIER FOUNDATION (C$995,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 28 organizations giving C$2,480,426 in grants to TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY?
THE GWYN MORGAN AND PATRICIA TROTTIER FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$995,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.

Play a game about who funds True North Centre for Public Policy →

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 28 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