Alberta · Registered charity
LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION
LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$16,716 to it, the largest being LETHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$8,620). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 186 protective health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 186 protective health care nonprofits under $100k, 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 funderslocalportfolio match
- The Hindle Family Foundationportfolio match
- The Hop 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 29% · 2018 31% · 2019 36% · 2022 70% · 2024 17%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (37% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell C$6k → C$519.
From the CRA filings of LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION’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 AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 52% of grant income and the top three 94%; 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 AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 100% · 2019 63% · 2020 89% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 70% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$8k that is directly attributable, 99% of it comes from funders outside Alberta, across 3 regions.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$9k 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 funderslocalportfolio matchAB · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · funds 19 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Hindle Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Hop Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The J.C. Anderson Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Central Albertaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saint Saviour's Anglican Church Incorporatedportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Totem Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- ATB Investor Services Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- B. Stefanich Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Banff Canmore Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The University of LethbridgelocalAB · funds 8 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.
Government revenue LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 17% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION?
- LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$16,716 to it, the largest being LETHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION (C$8,620). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 52% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$16,716 in grants to LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION?
- LETHBRIDGE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$8,620 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like LETHBRIDGE AREA SEARCH AND RESCUE ASSOCIATION 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 6 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