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Alberta · Registered charity

SMILES FROM SPENCER FOUNDATION

SMILES FROM SPENCER FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,377 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$1,149). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$25k
Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
C$1k
Grants received
C$-2367
Net assets
2/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

SMILES FROM SPENCER FOUNDATION's revenue fell 22% between 2019 and 2024.

Operating margin−10% · below the median
Months of reserve0.7mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)−5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,067 foundations nonprofits under $100k, 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 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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 = 20182018 2019 Revenue 100 (C$33k) Expenses 100 (C$6k)2020 Revenue 68 (C$22k) Expenses 360 (C$22k) Net assets 100 (C$11k)2021 Revenue 2 (C$493) Expenses 62 (C$4k) Net assets 71 (C$8k)2022 Revenue 64 (C$21k) Expenses 373 (C$22k) Net assets 58 (C$6k)2023 Revenue 71 (C$23k) Expenses 294 (C$18k)2024 Revenue 78 (C$25k) Expenses 465 (C$28k) Net assets -21 (C$-2367)
2018201920202021202220232024
Revenue (78)Expenses (465)Net assets (-21)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.

2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

2% of SMILES FROM SPENCER FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,538 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 6 reported years ran a deficit.

’18
C$27k
’19
C$513
’20
−C$3k
’21
−C$2k
’22
C$5k
’23
−C$3k
’24
0.7
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2019 → 2023: the base narrowed from 3 funders to 1 funder, grant income fell C$533 → C$315.

Funder
'19
'20
'21
'23
total
funders
3
2
1
1

From the CRA filings of SMILES FROM SPENCER 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

SMILES FROM SPENCER FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 83% of grant income and the top three 100%; 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 SMILES FROM SPENCER FOUNDATION.

83%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2019 67% · 2020 91% · 2021 100% · 2023 100% — 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

95% of SMILES FROM SPENCER FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Alberta funders.

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

’19
’20
’21
’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.

Organizations like SMILES FROM SPENCER 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

Hope for Cerebral Palsy Foundation59%The Kids Helping Kids Charitable Foundation58%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Alberta58%Spruce Meadows Leg Up Foundation57%Posey Children's Foundation Corp.57%Laugh for Life Foundation of Canada57%Red Deer Firefighters Children's Charity Association57%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Northern Alberta57%

Nationally

Tender Wishes Foundation67%Slices for Smiles Foundation66%Windsor Essex Care for Kids Foundation64%Make-A-Wish Foundation of Southwestern Ontario63%Smilezone Foundation63%Foundation Children's Smile & Juy Fondation Joie ET Sourires d'enfants63%The Childrens Foundation63%The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada/La Fondation Canadienne Reves D'Enfants62%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

44% of spending goes to programs.

Program 44%Management 0%Fundraising 56%

Governance

6
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds SMILES FROM SPENCER FOUNDATION?
SMILES FROM SPENCER FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,377 to it, the largest being Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne (C$1,149). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SMILES FROM SPENCER FOUNDATION have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$1,377 in grants to SMILES FROM SPENCER FOUNDATION, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of SMILES FROM SPENCER FOUNDATION?
Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne is the largest funder on record, with C$1,149 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SMILES FROM SPENCER FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.

These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2019–2024), and the filings of 3 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