Alberta · Registered charity
Oldman WaterShed Council
Oldman WaterShed Council (Alberta) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$795,658 to it, the largest being SAMUEL HANEN SOCIETY FOR RESOURCE CONSERVATION (C$220,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Oldman WaterShed Council holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,990 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,990 public amenities 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.
- United Way of Lethbridge & South Western Alberta Societylocal
- Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporationportfolio match
- Ducks Unlimited Canada/Canards Illimites Canadaportfolio 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 45% · 2018 45% · 2019 54% · 2020 66% · 2021 70% · 2022 70% · 2023 46% · 2024 57%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of Oldman WaterShed Council’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (10% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 8 funders to 7 funders, grant income rose C$93k → C$95k.
From the CRA filings of Oldman WaterShed Council’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
Oldman WaterShed Council has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 28% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 Oldman WaterShed Council.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 27% · 2018 33% · 2019 43% · 2020 44% · 2021 34% · 2022 40% · 2023 26% — broadly stable.
“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
50% of Oldman WaterShed Council's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 85% 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
81% of Oldman WaterShed Council'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 13 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- United Way of Lethbridge & South Western Alberta SocietylocalAB · funds 19 organizations near you
- Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ducks Unlimited Canada/Canards Illimites Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Wildlife Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Greenbelt Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Evergreenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Community Foundation of the South Okanagan Similkameenportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Virden Area Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Federation of Anglers and Hunters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The University of LethbridgelocalAB · funds 8 organizations near you
- Evangelical Free Church of LethbridgelocalAB · funds 9 organizations near you
- Parent/Preschool Program Association of Southwestern AlbertalocalAB · funds 6 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 Oldman WaterShed Council reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 57% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Oldman WaterShed Council
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
80% of spending goes to programs.
Questions and answers
- Who funds Oldman WaterShed Council?
- Oldman WaterShed Council (Alberta) receives grants from 13 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$795,658 to it, the largest being SAMUEL HANEN SOCIETY FOR RESOURCE CONSERVATION (C$220,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Oldman WaterShed Council have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 13 organizations giving C$795,658 in grants to Oldman WaterShed Council, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Oldman WaterShed Council?
- SAMUEL HANEN SOCIETY FOR RESOURCE CONSERVATION is the largest funder on record, with C$220,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Oldman WaterShed Council 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 13 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