Alberta · Registered charity
Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley
Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley (Alberta) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$120,143 to it, the largest being NORTHERN SPIRIT REGIONAL COUNCIL - THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA (C$117,540). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$36k
- Funders on record
- 5
- Grants received
- C$120k
- Net assets
- C$126k
What Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley does
Ongoing programs
Living Spirit United Church is a religious organization whose primary focus of programming is the furtherance of religion through worship study fellowship and the promotion of social justice. Ongoing programs include: * Gathering for worship weekly; * Participating in book studies (Advent Lent miscellaneous); * Pastoral care: workshops visitation cards phone calls memorials creation of and distribution of prayer shawls; offering worship services and communion in seniors' residence; *Community outreach: collecting donations of goods and money for our back to school supplies program World Day of Prayer participation with other denominations sponsoring Blanket Exercises; support of two community pantries; work with our local Homelessness & Poverty Coalition; contributions to our local Food Bank * Social justice activities: working toward the goals of Truth and Reconciliation with the Indigenous people of Canada Being Good Relations Network Leadership Group Blanket Exercises; Public Intentional & Explicit work toward becoming an Affirming community of faith; promotion of Fair Trade as a way to bring justice in developing countries; participation in a multi-partner…
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2021, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2021, 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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2021 to 2022, from C$22k to C$131k (+492%).
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: 2022 0% · 2023 0% · 2024 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (99% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 4 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2021 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$9k → C$291.
From the CRA filings of Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley’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
Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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 Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2021 83% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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
98% of Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley'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.
Against its field
Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 10,968 christianity nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 10,968 christianity nonprofits under $100k, FY2024
Government revenue Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 1% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley
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 Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley?
- Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley (Alberta) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$120,143 to it, the largest being NORTHERN SPIRIT REGIONAL COUNCIL - THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA (C$117,540). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$120,143 in grants to Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley?
- NORTHERN SPIRIT REGIONAL COUNCIL - THE UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$117,540 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Living Spirit United Church Drayton Valley 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 2021–2024), and the filings of 5 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register