Alberta · Registered charity
NSTEP
NSTEP (Alberta) receives grants from 17 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$850,253 to it, the largest being CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION (C$419,126). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$102k
- Funders on record
- 17
- Grants received
- C$850k
- Net assets
- C$14k
What Nstep does
Ongoing programs
NSTEP provides hands-on nutrition and physical activity education to children teachers and families across Canada. We strive to promote positive change in the health of our communities through active learning. We are an education hub of scientific evidence based knowledge that focuses on teaching healthy habits for children for life. We want their brains to be powered and nourished through healthy eating and physical activity. Nutrition and activity build better brains and bodies. NSTEP is different than other health promotion programs in its success at being accepted integrated and supported by school staff and administration at all levels of the education system. Our program is sought after by teachers because it provides curriculum and activities that teaches children and youth how to build communities inside the places they spend the greater part of their lives. The program provides opportunities to: -Connect children in different school levels with each other -Provide older children a vehicle to mentor younger children -Provide examples of actions they can do to meet these goals -Provide teachers with research supported methods to address nutrition and…
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from C$170k to C$59k (−65%).
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: 2021 26% · 2022 11% · 2023 25% · 2024 15%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
80% of NSTEP’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (35% 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
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
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 8 funders, grant income fell C$61k → C$59k.
From the CRA filings of NSTEP’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
NSTEP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 49% of grant income and the top three 87%; 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 NSTEP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 67% · 2018 79% · 2019 56% · 2020 54% · 2021 91% · 2022 89% · 2023 43% — 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
54% of NSTEP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 65% 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 NSTEP'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$9k 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.
Against its field
NSTEP's revenue fell 35% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 712 supportive health care nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government revenue NSTEP reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 15% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like NSTEP
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
91% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds NSTEP?
- NSTEP (Alberta) receives grants from 17 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$850,253 to it, the largest being CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION (C$419,126). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does NSTEP have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 17 organizations giving C$850,253 in grants to NSTEP, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of NSTEP?
- CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$419,126 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like NSTEP 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 17 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