Alberta · Registered charity
RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS
RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS (Alberta) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$158,194 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALBERTA SOCIETY (C$131,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS runs a healthier operating margin 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.
- Centre for Spiritual Living Red Deerlocalportfolio match
- Calgary Co-Op Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Waskasoo Bible Fellowshiplocal
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 37% · 2018 36% · 2019 39% · 2020 37% · 2021 35% · 2022 35% · 2023 34% · 2024 35%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS’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. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 4 funders, grant income rose C$20k → C$37k.
From the CRA filings of RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS’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 MEALS ON WHEELS leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 MEALS ON WHEELS.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 100% · 2018 98% · 2019 99% · 2020 96% · 2021 100% · 2022 94% · 2023 71% — 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
98% of RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS'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$14k 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 6 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Centre for Spiritual Living Red Deerlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 2 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Calgary Co-Op Community Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 21 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Waskasoo Bible FellowshiplocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Red Deer Catholic Regional Division #39localAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Embraced Worship Ministries FoundationlocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Sunnybrook United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lutheran Church of the Good Shepherd of Red DeerlocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Red Deer Food Bank Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Red Deer Gaetz Memorial United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calgary Kotobuki Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cal Wenzel Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Masonic Foundation of Albertaportfolio 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 MEALS ON WHEELS reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 35% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS
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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS?
- RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS (Alberta) receives grants from 6 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$158,194 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALBERTA SOCIETY (C$131,000). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 6 organizations giving C$158,194 in grants to RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS?
- UNITED WAY OF CENTRAL ALBERTA SOCIETY is the largest funder on record, with C$131,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RED DEER MEALS ON WHEELS 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