Alberta · Registered charity
THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY
THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$200,832 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$142,260). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY is better cushioned than half of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Red Deer Food Bank Societylocalportfolio match
- United Way of Central Alberta Societyshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Red Deer Gaetz Memorial United Churchlocalportfolio 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: 2021 8% · 2023 32%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
53% of THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose C$14k → C$18k.
From the CRA filings of THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 13 of 14 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
THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 71% of grant income and the top three 88%; 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 THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 78% · 2018 58% · 2019 65% · 2020 54% · 2021 75% · 2022 85% · 2023 98% — 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.
How long its funders stay
75% of THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 57% 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
THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY draws 89% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 3 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$23k 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.
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 14 funders put you under-funded among the 393 organizations that share them.
- Red Deer Food Bank Societylocalportfolio matchAB · funds 17 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Central Alberta Societyshared funderslocalportfolio matchAB · backs 30 organizations that share your funders · funds 16 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Red Deer Gaetz Memorial United Churchlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 9 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- First Christian Reformed Churchlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 10 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Centre for Spiritual Living Red Deerlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lifelong Learning Council of Red DeerlocalAB · funds 8 organizations near you
- Food Banks Alberta Associationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- AMA Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Masonic Foundation of Albertaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blueportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Board of Trustees of Red Deer School DivisionlocalAB · funds 11 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 THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 32% of FY2023 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU 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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY?
- THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 14 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$200,832 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$142,260). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 14 organizations giving C$200,832 in grants to THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU SOCIETY?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$142,260 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE RED DEER CHRISTMAS BUREAU 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 14 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