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SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION

SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,404,168 to it, the largest being SKILLS/COMPÉTENCES CANADA CORPORATION (C$1,785,185). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$5.7M
Revenue FY2024
8
Funders on record
C$2.4M
Grants received
C$2.4M
Net assets
6/8 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 16%

Against its field

SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,019 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.

Operating margin4% · above the median
Months of reserve14.3mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)13% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,019 teaching institutions 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$2.4M) Expenses 100 (C$3.0M) Net assets 100 (C$1.4M)2018 Revenue 113 (C$2.8M) Expenses 88 (C$2.6M) Net assets 108 (C$1.6M)2019 Revenue 123 (C$3.0M) Expenses 100 (C$3.0M) Net assets 108 (C$1.6M)2020 Revenue 93 (C$2.3M) Expenses 66 (C$2.0M) Net assets 127 (C$1.8M)2021 Revenue 117 (C$2.9M) Expenses 86 (C$2.6M) Net assets 147 (C$2.1M)2022 Revenue 126 (C$3.1M) Expenses 100 (C$3.0M) Net assets 153 (C$2.2M)2023 Revenue 176 (C$4.3M) Expenses 144 (C$4.3M) Net assets 149 (C$2.2M)2024 Revenue 234 (C$5.7M) Expenses 183 (C$5.5M) Net assets 169 (C$2.4M)
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Revenue (234)Expenses (183)Net assets (169)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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2018
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2020
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ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 45% · 2018 54% · 2019 58% · 2020 82% · 2021 68% · 2022 66% · 2023 65% · 2024 70%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

81% of SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (11% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 822 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$553k
’17
C$111k
’18
C$722
’19
C$284k
’20
C$289k
’21
C$73k
’22
−C$10k
’23
C$249k
’24
14
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 2 funders, grant income rose C$95k → C$676k.

Funder
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'23
'24*
total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$11k
PayPal Giving Fund Canadaunclassified
C$300
funders
3
2
6
2
3
3
2
4

From the CRA filings of SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION’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

SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 74% of grant income and the top three 98%; 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 SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION.

74%
largest funder
98%
top three
~2
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 77% · 2018 93% · 2019 84% · 2020 99% · 2021 65% · 2022 53% · 2023 82% — 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

57% of SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 75% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y

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

SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION draws 78% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 3 regions in all.

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. 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.

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 SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION reports

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

FY2024C$4.0M
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  • 70% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA 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

Girlsincorporated of Northern Alberta Society72%Women Building Futures Society71%Chinook Regional Foundation for Career Transitions71%Edmonton Region Immigrant Employment Council70%Alberta Student Assessment Network70%Alberta Craft Council69%Making Changes Employment Association of Alberta69%Alberta Music Education Foundation69%

Nationally

Skills/Compétences Canada Corporation83%Skills Canada-Newfoundland and Labrador Incorporated80%Skills Canada - British Columbia Chapter79%Skills Canada Manitoba Association Inc79%Skills Canada Northwest Territories78%Skills Canada-Ontario Competences Canada-Ontario77%Skills Canada Nova Scotia Association76%Skills Canada Saskatchewan Inc75%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

62% of spending goes to programs.

Program 62%Management 38%Fundraising 0%

Governance

21
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION?
SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 8 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$2,404,168 to it, the largest being SKILLS/COMPÉTENCES CANADA CORPORATION (C$1,785,185). 6 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 8 organizations giving C$2,404,168 in grants to SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION, 6 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA ASSOCIATION?
SKILLS/COMPÉTENCES CANADA CORPORATION is the largest funder on record, with C$1,785,185 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SKILLS CANADA ALBERTA 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 Skills Canada Alberta 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 8 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