Alberta · Registered charity
CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION
CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,961,025 to it, the largest being THE CALGARY FOUNDATION (C$2,328,933). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 879 core health care nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 879 core health care 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.
- Norrep Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio match
- Norris Family Foundationlocalportfolio match
- Kanovsky Family 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: 2019 0% · 2020 31% · 2021 22% · 2022 26% · 2023 8% · 2024 4%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
91% of CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (6% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 5 funders to 11 funders, grant income rose C$58k → C$86k.
From the CRA filings of CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION’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
CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 79% of grant income and the top three 89%; 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 CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 52% · 2018 43% · 2019 34% · 2020 73% · 2021 27% · 2022 47% · 2023 35% — 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.
How long its funders stay
50% of CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 62% give in more than one year at all.
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
95% of CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION'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$10k 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 21 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Norrep Foundationshared funderslocalportfolio matchAB · backs 36 organizations that share your funders · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Norris Family Foundationlocalportfolio matchAB · funds 3 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- Kanovsky Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 41 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Wagemakers FoundationlocalAB · funds 7 organizations near you
- Cliff Lede Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- William & Florence Lede Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Caron Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Cam & Dawn Allard Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Stone Creek Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- J.Hokanson Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Three Sisters Charitable FoundationlocalAB · funds 4 organizations near you
- Clearwater Charitable FoundationlocalAB · funds 5 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 CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 4% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION
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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION?
- CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 21 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,961,025 to it, the largest being THE CALGARY FOUNDATION (C$2,328,933). 13 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 21 organizations giving C$2,961,025 in grants to CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION, 13 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION?
- THE CALGARY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$2,328,933 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION 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 21 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