Alberta · Registered charity
Leftovers Foundation
Leftovers Foundation (Alberta) receives grants from 49 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,083,686 to it, the largest being THE CALGARY FOUNDATION (C$366,568). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Leftovers Foundation has grown faster than three-quarters of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
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 Arthur J E Child Foundationshared funders
- Sperowayportfolio match
- Food for Life Inc.portfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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: 2019 0% · 2020 8% · 2021 5% · 2022 2% · 2023 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
98% of Leftovers Foundation’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 7 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 18 funders, grant income rose C$13k → C$217k.
From the CRA filings of Leftovers Foundation’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
Leftovers Foundation has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% of grant income, and it takes 5 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 5 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 Leftovers Foundation.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 92% · 2019 57% · 2020 24% · 2021 30% · 2022 17% · 2023 14% — 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
63% of Leftovers Foundation's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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
64% of Leftovers 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. C$317k 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.
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 Arthur J E Child Foundationshared fundersAB · backs 44 organizations that share your funders
- Sperowayportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food for Life Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Association of Food Banksportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- David McAntony Gibson Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- AMA Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maple Leaf Centre for Action on Food Securityportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hospice Georgian Triangle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Sodexo Foundation Inc/Fondation Sodexo Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Alberta Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks British Columbiaportfolio 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 Leftovers Foundation reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 2% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Leftovers 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
89% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Leftovers Foundation?
- Leftovers Foundation (Alberta) receives grants from 49 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,083,686 to it, the largest being THE CALGARY FOUNDATION (C$366,568). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Leftovers Foundation have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 49 organizations giving C$2,083,686 in grants to Leftovers Foundation, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Leftovers Foundation?
- THE CALGARY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$366,568 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Leftovers 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 2018–2024), 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