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PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA

PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (Alberta) receives grants from 79 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,372,634 to it, the largest being GORDON & DIANE BUCHANAN FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$1,160,180). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$1.9M
Revenue FY2024
79
Funders on record
C$3.4M
Grants received
C$692k
Net assets
49/79 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 25%

Against its field

PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 879 core health care nonprofits its size.

Operating margin8% · above the median
Months of reserve3.0mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)1% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 879 core health care nonprofits $1M–$10M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$1.7M) Expenses 100 (C$2.0M) Net assets 100 (C$1.1M)2018 Revenue 113 (C$2.0M) Expenses 106 (C$2.1M) Net assets 84 (C$933k)2019 Revenue 125 (C$2.2M) Expenses 123 (C$2.4M) Net assets 61 (C$673k)2020 Revenue 104 (C$1.8M) Expenses 90 (C$1.8M) Net assets 63 (C$700k)2021 Revenue 94 (C$1.6M) Expenses 74 (C$1.5M) Net assets 78 (C$866k)2022 Revenue 76 (C$1.3M) Expenses 88 (C$1.7M) Net assets 48 (C$532k)2023 Revenue 101 (C$1.8M) Expenses 85 (C$1.7M) Net assets 49 (C$540k)2024 Revenue 109 (C$1.9M) Expenses 88 (C$1.7M) Net assets 62 (C$692k)
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Revenue (109)Expenses (88)Net assets (62)Peer revenue range

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.

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2018
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2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 1% · 2018 11% · 2019 1% · 2020 35% · 2021 25% · 2022 11% · 2023 9% · 2024 13%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

69% of PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (6% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 815 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

−C$244k
’17
−C$129k
’18
−C$262k
’19
C$26k
’20
C$166k
’21
−C$409k
’22
C$83k
’23
C$152k
’24
3.0
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 32 funders, grant income fell C$438k → C$407k.

Funder
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'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
The Mark Mercier Foundationunclassified
C$437k
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$281k
The Calgary Foundationunclassified
C$54k
Prairie Crocus Foundationunclassified
C$40k
Atco Electric Epicunclassified
C$31k
Aqueduct Foundationunclassified
C$30k
Abundance Canadaunclassified
C$28k
Chadi Family Foundationunclassified
C$20k
PayPal Giving Fund Canadaunclassified
C$19k
Calgary Flames Foundationunclassified
C$10k
funders
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37
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34

From the CRA filings of PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 79 funders by total. 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

PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 34% 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 PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA.

34%
largest funder
56%
top three
~6
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 26% · 2019 45% · 2020 31% · 2021 34% · 2022 35% · 2023 45% — 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

48% of PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

82% of PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA's grant income comes from Alberta funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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Alberta out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$293k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions 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.

03Its place in the field

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 79 funders put you typical among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$254k
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  • 13% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA

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

Alberta Caregivers Association78%Central Alberta Brain Injury Society77%Als Society of Alberta77%Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories77%Alzheimer Society of Calgary76%The Chronic Pain Association of Canada - Alberta75%Alberta Northwest Palliative Care Society74%Epilepsy Association of Calgary74%

Nationally

Parkinson Canada Inc.83%Alberta Caregivers Association78%Central Alberta Brain Injury Society77%Als Society of Alberta77%Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories77%Parkinson Wellness Projects76%Alzheimer Society of Calgary76%Parkinson Society Southwestern Ontario76%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

54% of spending goes to programs.

Program 54%Management 23%Fundraising 23%

Governance

16
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA?
PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA (Alberta) receives grants from 79 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$3,372,634 to it, the largest being GORDON & DIANE BUCHANAN FAMILY FOUNDATION (C$1,160,180). 49 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 79 organizations giving C$3,372,634 in grants to PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA, 49 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA?
GORDON & DIANE BUCHANAN FAMILY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$1,160,180 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like PARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA 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 79 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