Alberta · Registered charity
LEAD FOUNDATION
LEAD FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$37,755 to it, the largest being THE WAGEMAKERS FOUNDATION (C$11,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
LEAD FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 1,019 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,019 teaching institutions 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.
- Calgary Learns Associationshared funderslocal
- The Sandbox Project Charityportfolio match
- Goodlife Kids 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.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 98% · 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 98% · 2021 99% · 2022 99% · 2023 98% · 2024 97%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
36% of LEAD FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% 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 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell C$10k → C$6k.
From the CRA filings of LEAD FOUNDATION’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
LEAD FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 72%; 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 LEAD FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 51% · 2018 56% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 80% · 2022 79% · 2023 81% — 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
89% of LEAD FOUNDATION'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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 222 organizations that share them.
- Calgary Learns Associationshared funderslocalAB · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Sandbox Project Charityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Goodlife Kids Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- B.C. Social Venture Partners Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- TD Securities Underwriting Hope Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Mlse Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Yellow Bus Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- CIBC Foundation / Fondation CIBCportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry E Foster Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canada Post Community Foundation/Fondation Communautaire de Postes Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- East Meets West Children's Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Johansen-Larsen 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.
Government revenue LEAD FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 97% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like LEAD FOUNDATION
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 LEAD FOUNDATION?
- LEAD FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$37,755 to it, the largest being THE WAGEMAKERS FOUNDATION (C$11,750). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does LEAD FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$37,755 in grants to LEAD FOUNDATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LEAD FOUNDATION?
- THE WAGEMAKERS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$11,750 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LEAD FOUNDATION 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 7 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