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MCS FOUNDATION LTD.

MCS FOUNDATION LTD. (Alberta) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$94,285 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$55,678). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$711k
Revenue FY2024
5
Funders on record
C$94k
Grants received
C$2.1M
Net assets
4/5 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 6%

Against its field

MCS FOUNDATION LTD. runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 878 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.

Operating margin7% · above the median
Months of reserve2.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)0% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 878 teaching institutions 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$687k) Expenses 100 (C$530k) Net assets 100 (C$1.5M)2018 Revenue 104 (C$716k) Expenses 112 (C$594k) Net assets 108 (C$1.6M)2019 Revenue 107 (C$737k) Expenses 114 (C$606k) Net assets 117 (C$1.8M)2020 Revenue 95 (C$654k) Expenses 86 (C$458k) Net assets 130 (C$2.0M)2021 Revenue 95 (C$650k) Expenses 83 (C$442k) Net assets 144 (C$2.2M)2022 Revenue 53 (C$365k) Expenses 91 (C$483k)2023 Revenue 90 (C$620k) Expenses 126 (C$670k) Net assets 133 (C$2.0M)2024 Revenue 104 (C$711k) Expenses 125 (C$661k) Net assets 137 (C$2.1M)
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Revenue (104)Expenses (125)Net assets (137)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

14% of MCS FOUNDATION LTD.’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (16% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 734 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$157k
’17
C$122k
’18
C$131k
’19
C$196k
’20
C$208k
’21
−C$118k
’22
−C$50k
’23
C$50k
’24
2.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell C$7k → C$5k.

From the CRA filings of MCS FOUNDATION LTD.’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

MCS FOUNDATION LTD. leans on a few funders — its largest provides 59% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 MCS FOUNDATION LTD..

59%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 95% · 2019 76% · 2020 84% · 2021 100% · 2022 82% · 2023 63% — 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

71% of MCS FOUNDATION LTD.'s grant income comes from Alberta funders.

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$792 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 5 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.

Organizations like MCS FOUNDATION LTD.

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

80% of spending goes to programs.

Program 80%Management 17%Fundraising 2%

Governance

10
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds MCS FOUNDATION LTD.?
MCS FOUNDATION LTD. (Alberta) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$94,285 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$55,678). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does MCS FOUNDATION LTD. have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$94,285 in grants to MCS FOUNDATION LTD., 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of MCS FOUNDATION LTD.?
Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne is the largest funder on record, with C$55,678 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like MCS FOUNDATION LTD. 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 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 September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register