Alberta · Registered charity
OLDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY
OLDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$21,315 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL ALBERTA (C$20,810). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
OLDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 3,180 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,180 public amenities nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- St Andrew's Presbyterian Churchlocal
- Dogwood Heritage Society of B.C.portfolio match
- West Kootenay Regional Arts Councilportfolio 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 86% · 2018 86% · 2019 94% · 2020 77% · 2021 96% · 2022 86% · 2023 92% · 2024 93%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
89% of OLDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (28% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose C$122 → C$1k.
From the CRA filings of OLDS HISTORICAL 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
OLDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 98% 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 OLDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 100% · 2019 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — 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.
Where its funders are
98% of OLDS HISTORICAL 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$505 that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Alberta funders.
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$21k 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.
- St Andrew's Presbyterian ChurchlocalAB · funds 4 organizations near you
- Dogwood Heritage Society of B.C.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Kootenay Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- National Trust for Canada / Fiducie Nationale Du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rozsa Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Audain Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St John's Anglican ChurchlocalAB · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Banff Canmore Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Virden Area Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Phoenix Foundation of the Boundary Communitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pembina-Manitou Area Foundation Inc.portfolio 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 OLDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 93% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like OLDS HISTORICAL 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.
Where the money goes
4% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds OLDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- OLDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$21,315 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL ALBERTA (C$20,810). 1 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 98% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does OLDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 2 organizations giving C$21,315 in grants to OLDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY, 1 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of OLDS HISTORICAL SOCIETY?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL ALBERTA is the largest funder on record, with C$20,810 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like OLDS HISTORICAL 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 FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 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