Alberta · Registered charity
RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD
RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD (Alberta) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$138,808 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL ALBERTA (C$108,816). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
Against its field
RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 690 public amenities nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 690 public amenities 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.
- The Board of Trustees of Red Deer School Divisionlocalportfolio match
- Red Deer Food Bank Societylocalportfolio 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: 2017 94% · 2018 94% · 2019 94% · 2020 96% · 2021 91% · 2022 93% · 2023 90% · 2024 90%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
6% of RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (5% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 2 funders to 3 funders, grant income rose C$13k → C$22k.
From the CRA filings of RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD’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
RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD leans on a few funders — its largest provides 78% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 98% · 2018 96% · 2019 98% · 2020 73% · 2021 72% · 2022 67% · 2023 80% — 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.
Where its funders are
85% of RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD'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$21k that is directly attributable, 86% of it comes from funders outside Alberta, across 2 regions.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$118k 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.
- The Board of Trustees of Red Deer School Divisionlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Red Deer Food Bank Societylocalportfolio matchAB · funds 17 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
- Sunnybrook United Churchlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 5 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
- Allard Foundation Ltd.shared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 23 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lifelong Learning Council of Red Deershared funderslocalAB · backs 8 organizations that share your funders · funds 8 organizations near you
- Kimberley Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- British Columbia Courthouse Library Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ontario Genealogical Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lethbridge Community Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Regina Rotary Club Community Fund 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 RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 90% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD
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 RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD?
- RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD (Alberta) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$138,808 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL ALBERTA (C$108,816). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 85% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$138,808 in grants to RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD?
- COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CENTRAL ALBERTA is the largest funder on record, with C$108,816 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RED DEER LIBRARY BOARD 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 6 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