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Sage Seniors Association

Sage Seniors Association (Alberta) receives grants from 49 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,620,451 to it, the largest being United Way of the Alberta Capital Region (C$803,388). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$3.8M
Revenue FY2024
49
Funders on record
C$2.6M
Grants received
C$646k
Net assets
23/49 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 20%

Against its field

Sage Seniors Association's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.

Operating margin1% · below the median
Months of reserve2.9mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)3% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty 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$3.1M) Expenses 100 (C$3.0M) Net assets 100 (C$401k)2018 Revenue 120 (C$3.7M) Expenses 121 (C$3.6M) Net assets 104 (C$416k)2019 Revenue 133 (C$4.1M) Expenses 133 (C$4.0M) Net assets 125 (C$501k)2020 Revenue 134 (C$4.1M) Expenses 125 (C$3.8M) Net assets 216 (C$865k)2021 Revenue 89 (C$2.7M) Expenses 95 (C$2.9M) Net assets 187 (C$750k)2022 Revenue 81 (C$2.5M) Expenses 91 (C$2.7M) Net assets 111 (C$446k)2023 Revenue 108 (C$3.3M) Expenses 107 (C$3.2M) Net assets 143 (C$573k)2024 Revenue 124 (C$3.8M) Expenses 124 (C$3.7M) Net assets 161 (C$646k)
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Revenue (124)Expenses (124)Net assets (161)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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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 66% · 2018 78% · 2019 81% · 2020 83% · 2021 70% · 2022 72% · 2023 67% · 2024 66%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

12% of Sage Seniors Association’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (8% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,313 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$61k
’17
C$49k
’18
C$66k
’19
C$351k
’20
−C$131k
’21
−C$257k
’22
C$102k
’23
C$56k
’24
2.9
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base held at 15 funders, grant income rose C$248k → C$524k.

Funder
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'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$197k
C$87k
C$43k
Melton Foundationunclassified
C$4k
C$4k
C$4k
C$2k
C$2k
funders
15
14
27
17
12
14
15
12

From the CRA filings of Sage Seniors Association’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 49 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

Sage Seniors Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 31% of grant income and the top three 70%; half comes from just 2 funders.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 Sage Seniors Association.

31%
largest funder
70%
top three
~5
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 44% · 2018 44% · 2019 40% · 2020 35% · 2021 55% · 2022 32% · 2023 53% — 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

26% of Sage Seniors Association's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 47% 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

73% of Sage Seniors Association's grant income comes from Alberta funders.

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

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’23
Alberta out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$639k 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.

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 49 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 Sage Seniors Association reports

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

FY2024C$2.5M
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  • 66% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like Sage Seniors Association

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

84% of spending goes to programs.

Program 84%Management 15%Fundraising 1%

Governance

13
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds Sage Seniors Association?
Sage Seniors Association (Alberta) receives grants from 49 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,620,451 to it, the largest being United Way of the Alberta Capital Region (C$803,388). 23 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does Sage Seniors Association have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 49 organizations giving C$2,620,451 in grants to Sage Seniors Association, 23 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of Sage Seniors Association?
United Way of the Alberta Capital Region is the largest funder on record, with C$803,388 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like Sage Seniors Association find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.

Play a game about who funds Sage Seniors Association →

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 49 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