Alberta · Registered charity
MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE
MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE (Alberta) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$849,088 to it, the largest being CALGARY COUNSELLING CENTRE (C$403,267). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Friends of Medalta Societylocal
- The Federation of Community Social Services Society of British Columbiaportfolio match
- Bc Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programsportfolio 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 54% · 2018 53% · 2019 54% · 2020 62% · 2021 60% · 2022 52% · 2023 34% · 2024 37%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (21% 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 broadened from 3 funders to 6 funders, grant income rose C$24k → C$244k.
From the CRA filings of MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE’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
MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 funders 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 MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 94% · 2018 68% · 2019 90% · 2020 46% · 2021 55% · 2022 61% · 2023 65% — 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.
How long its funders stay
43% of MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 80% give in more than one year at all.
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
98% of MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE'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$71k 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. Your 10 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Friends of Medalta SocietylocalAB · funds 10 organizations near you
- The Federation of Community Social Services Society of British Columbiaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bc Association of Pregnancy Outreach Programsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- MOOD DISORDERS SOCIETY OF CANADA La Societe Pour Les Troubles de L'Humeur du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The United Way of Peel Regionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A Dollar A Day Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Alberta Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way Southern Interior Bcportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Hillcrest Evangelical Missionary Church FellowshiplocalAB · funds 12 organizations near you
- River Valley Community Church and Fellowship of Medicine HatlocalAB · funds 9 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 MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 37% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE
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
67% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE?
- MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE (Alberta) receives grants from 10 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$849,088 to it, the largest being CALGARY COUNSELLING CENTRE (C$403,267). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 10 organizations giving C$849,088 in grants to MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE?
- CALGARY COUNSELLING CENTRE is the largest funder on record, with C$403,267 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICE 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 10 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