Alberta · Registered charity
SAGE THEATRE SOCIETY
SAGE THEATRE SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$110,289 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$40,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
SAGE THEATRE SOCIETY runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 689 education in the arts nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 689 education in the arts 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.
- Kingfisher Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Prairie Crocus Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- The Flanagan Foundationshared 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 50% · 2018 62% · 2019 65% · 2020 58% · 2021 76% · 2022 69% · 2023 80% · 2024 94%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
12% of SAGE THEATRE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (11% 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 narrowed from 4 funders to 2 funders, grant income fell C$13k → C$947.
From the CRA filings of SAGE THEATRE 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
SAGE THEATRE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 36% of grant income and the top three 76%; 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 THEATRE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 38% · 2018 30% · 2019 33% · 2020 49% · 2021 55% · 2022 52% · 2023 69% — 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.
Where its funders are
SAGE THEATRE SOCIETY draws 67% 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. 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.
- Kingfisher Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 11 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Prairie Crocus Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 8 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Flanagan Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 22 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioshared fundersportfolio matchON · backs 43 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Brenda Strafford Foundation Ltd.localAB · funds 3 organizations near you
- Harry and Martha Cohen Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Smith and Vanstokkom Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Youssef-Warren Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wettstein Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Winnipeg Arts Council Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bulmash-Siegel Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Wood's Homes FoundationlocalAB · funds 2 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 SAGE THEATRE 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 SAGE THEATRE 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
73% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds SAGE THEATRE SOCIETY?
- SAGE THEATRE SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$110,289 to it, the largest being RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION (C$40,000). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does SAGE THEATRE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$110,289 in grants to SAGE THEATRE SOCIETY, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of SAGE THEATRE SOCIETY?
- RBC FOUNDATION/RBC FONDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$40,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like SAGE THEATRE 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 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