Alberta · Registered charity
RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY
RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$51,447 to it, the largest being THE ALBERTA ECOTRUST FOUNDATION (C$29,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 184 environment nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 184 environment 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.
- The Board of Trustees of Red Deer School Divisionlocalportfolio match
- Sunnybrook United Churchlocalportfolio match
- Alberta Conservation Associationshared fundersportfolio 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 92% · 2018 94% · 2019 90% · 2020 90% · 2021 83% · 2022 98% · 2023 97% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
22% of RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (25% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base held at 2 funders, grant income fell C$17k → C$200.
From the CRA filings of RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE 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
RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 58% of grant income and the top three 92%; 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 RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 74% · 2018 63% · 2019 80% · 2020 99% · 2021 97% · 2023 52% — 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
72% of RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY'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$4k 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 7 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Board of Trustees of Red Deer School Divisionlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 11 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Sunnybrook United Churchlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Alberta Conservation Associationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 29 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Nature Canada / Canada Natureshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 31 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Sitka Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchBC · backs 17 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Lifelong Learning Council of Red DeerlocalAB · funds 8 organizations near you
- Manitoba Habitat Heritage Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Small Change Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Glasswaters Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Read Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Brawn Family Foundation.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Red Deer Food Bank SocietylocalAB · funds 17 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 RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 94% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE 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
90% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY?
- RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$51,447 to it, the largest being THE ALBERTA ECOTRUST FOUNDATION (C$29,700). 5 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$51,447 in grants to RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY, 5 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY?
- THE ALBERTA ECOTRUST FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$29,700 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like RED DEER RIVER WATERSHED ALLIANCE SOCIETY 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 7 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