Alberta · Registered charity
Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival Society
Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival Society (Alberta) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$836,805 to it, the largest being KIWANIS CLUB OF LETHBRIDGE TRUST (C$813,301). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival Society runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,067 arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,067 arts 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.
- United Way of Lethbridge & South Western Alberta Societyshared funderslocal
- Rozsa Foundationportfolio match
- Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba Incportfolio 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.
6% of Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival Society’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as 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 held at 1 funder, grant income fell C$5k → C$96.
From the CRA filings of Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival 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
Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival Society leans on a few funders — its largest provides 97% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2020 95% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“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
100% of Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival Society'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$17k 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.
- United Way of Lethbridge & South Western Alberta Societyshared funderslocalAB · backs 38 organizations that share your funders · funds 19 organizations near you
- Rozsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Foundation for Choral Music in Manitoba Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Winnipeg Arts Council Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Harry and Martha Cohen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alan and Gwendoline Pyatt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- South East Cornerstone School Division No. 209portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deux Mille Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Kootenay Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Richardson Foundation Inc. /Fondation Richardson Inc.portfolio 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.
Organizations like Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival 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
33% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival Society?
- Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival Society (Alberta) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$836,805 to it, the largest being KIWANIS CLUB OF LETHBRIDGE TRUST (C$813,301). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival Society have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$836,805 in grants to Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival Society, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival Society?
- KIWANIS CLUB OF LETHBRIDGE TRUST is the largest funder on record, with C$813,301 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Lethbridge and District Music and Speech Arts Festival 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 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