Alberta · Registered charity
MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY
MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$22,563 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA (C$19,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 1,618 community resource nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,618 community resource nonprofits under $100k, FY2021
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.
- Medicine Hat Realtors' Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Yuill Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- United Way of South Eastern Albertashared funderslocalportfolio 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 49% · 2018 24% · 2019 71% · 2020 34% · 2021 88%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (60% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2023: the base narrowed from 2 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$13k → C$48.
From the CRA filings of MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY’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 JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 84% 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 MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 88% · 2019 100% · 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 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
84% of MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY'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$4k that is directly attributable, 58% of it comes from funders outside Alberta, across 2 regions.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$19k 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 3 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Medicine Hat Realtors' Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 15 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Yuill Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of South Eastern Albertashared funderslocalportfolio matchAB · backs 53 organizations that share your funders · funds 21 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Aecon Transportation West Ltd. Employee Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Cenovus Employee Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Shaw Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Social Venture Partners Calgary Ltd.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Little Miracles Trust Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Friends of Medalta SocietylocalAB · funds 10 organizations near you
- Abc Benefits Corporation Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of Central Albertaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Butler Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 88% of FY2021 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY
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.
Questions and answers
- Who funds MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY?
- MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$22,563 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA (C$19,000). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 84% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$22,563 in grants to MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF MEDICINE HAT AND SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA is the largest funder on record, with C$19,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MEDICINE HAT JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY 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 FY2021 (financials across 2017–2021), and the filings of 3 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