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SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY

SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 57 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,995,184 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$3,715,126). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$3.3M
Revenue FY2024
57
Funders on record
C$5.0M
Grants received
C$1.4M
Net assets
32/57 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 45%

Against its field

SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY has grown faster than half of the 121 animal welfare nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · below the median
Months of reserve4.7mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)17% · above the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 121 animal welfare 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$1.1M) Expenses 100 (C$973k) Net assets 100 (C$219k)2018 Revenue 108 (C$1.2M) Expenses 108 (C$1.1M) Net assets 149 (C$326k)2019 Revenue 112 (C$1.2M) Expenses 134 (C$1.3M) Net assets 106 (C$231k)2020 Revenue 231 (C$2.5M) Expenses 153 (C$1.5M) Net assets 555 (C$1.2M)2021 Revenue 198 (C$2.1M) Expenses 202 (C$2.0M) Net assets 558 (C$1.2M)2022 Revenue 207 (C$2.2M) Expenses 216 (C$2.1M) Net assets 613 (C$1.3M)2023 Revenue 254 (C$2.7M) Expenses 290 (C$2.8M) Net assets 570 (C$1.2M)2024 Revenue 306 (C$3.3M) Expenses 324 (C$3.1M) Net assets 631 (C$1.4M)
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Revenue (306)Expenses (324)Net assets (631)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2020 1% · 2021 2% · 2022 1%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

63% of SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (50% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 121 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$100k
’17
C$107k
’18
−C$95k
’19
C$983k
’20
C$153k
’21
C$120k
’22
−C$94k
’23
C$135k
’24
4.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 14 funders to 29 funders, grant income rose C$101k → C$740k.

Funder
'17
'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$3.7M
C$233k
Atco Electric Epicunclassified
C$54k
C$20k
Help a Buddy Fundunclassified
C$16k
C$15k
C$10k
C$10k
C$5k
Abundance Canadaunclassified
C$4k
funders
14
15
9
21
21
20
29
29

From the CRA filings of SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 57 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

SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 86%; 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 SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY.

74%
largest funder
86%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 63% · 2018 72% · 2019 29% · 2020 54% · 2021 79% · 2022 79% · 2023 66% — 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

45% of SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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

SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY draws 87% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 6 regions in all.

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

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’20
’21
’22
’23
Alberta out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$244k 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.

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 57 funders put you under-funded 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 SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY reports

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

FY2022C$25k
20
21
22
  • 1% of FY2022 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE 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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

96% of spending goes to programs.

Program 96%Management 1%Fundraising 3%

Governance

10
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY?
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 57 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$4,995,184 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$3,715,126). 32 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 57 organizations giving C$4,995,184 in grants to SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY, 32 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY?
CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$3,715,126 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE 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 57 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