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Alberta · Registered charity

LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION

LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$52,140 to it, the largest being RICHARDSON FOUNDATION INC. /FONDATION RICHARDSON INC. (C$37,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$260k
Revenue FY2024
13
Funders on record
C$52k
Grants received
C$229k
Net assets
6/13 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION is better cushioned than half of the 2,747 foundations nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−27% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve17.9mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,747 foundations 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.

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$454k) Expenses 100 (C$568k) Net assets 100 (C$202k)2018 Revenue 82 (C$371k) Expenses 114 (C$650k) Net assets 47 (C$95k)2019 Revenue 58 (C$265k) Expenses 59 (C$333k) Net assets 86 (C$174k)2020 Revenue 27 (C$121k) Expenses 19 (C$107k)2021 Revenue 19 (C$88k) Expenses 26 (C$147k)2022 Revenue 30 (C$136k) Expenses 20 (C$115k)2023 Revenue 47 (C$212k) Expenses 19 (C$106k) Net assets 111 (C$225k)2024 Revenue 57 (C$260k) Expenses 58 (C$330k) Net assets 114 (C$229k)
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Revenue (57)Expenses (58)Net assets (114)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

Government-grant reliance: 2018 20% · 2019 28% · 2023 29%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

88% of LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,134 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$114k
’17
−C$278k
’18
−C$68k
’19
C$13k
’20
−C$59k
’21
C$20k
’22
C$106k
’23
−C$70k
’24
18
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 3 funders, grant income rose C$1k → C$6k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Bergthal Mennonite Churchunclassified
C$600
The Calgary Foundationunclassified
C$501
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$48
funders
3
4
3
1
2
5
3
1

From the CRA filings of LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 12 of 13 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

LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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 LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION.

71%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 95% · 2019 64% · 2020 100% · 2021 54% · 2022 41% · 2023 88% — 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.

How long its funders stay

17% of LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 46% 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

LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION draws 80% 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$5k 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.

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 13 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 LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION reports

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

FY2023C$62k
18
19
23
  • 29% of FY2023 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like LIONS OF ALBERTA 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

Lions Club of Edmonton Foundation76%Alberta Cancer Foundation75%The Alberta Knights of Columbus Charitable Foundation75%Hockey Alberta Foundation74%Alberta Diabetes Foundation74%Lions Village of Greater Edmonton Society74%Red Deer Central Lions Charities Trust73%Calgary Lions Housing Society73%

Nationally

Lions of Canada Fund for Lcif83%Saskatchewan Lions Foundation Inc.81%Lions Club of Edmonton Foundation76%Lions Foundation of Nova Scotia75%Alberta Cancer Foundation75%The Alberta Knights of Columbus Charitable Foundation75%Hockey Alberta Foundation74%Alberta Diabetes Foundation74%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

91% of spending goes to programs.

Program 91%Management 1%Fundraising 8%

Governance

11
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION?
LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$52,140 to it, the largest being RICHARDSON FOUNDATION INC. /FONDATION RICHARDSON INC. (C$37,000). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 13 organizations giving C$52,140 in grants to LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION?
RICHARDSON FOUNDATION INC. /FONDATION RICHARDSON INC. is the largest funder on record, with C$37,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like LIONS OF ALBERTA FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.

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 13 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