Alberta · Registered charity
Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society
Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society (Alberta) receives grants from 39 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$915,505 to it, the largest being OLYMPIA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$185,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty 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.
- Airdrie And District Community Foundationlocal
- Angela and Collin Herbers Family Charitable Foundationportfolio match
- Steinbach McC Community Assistance Centre Inc.portfolio 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: 2020 16%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
99% of Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (21% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 14 funders to 10 funders, grant income rose C$95k → C$105k.
From the CRA filings of Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 39 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
Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 20% of grant income, and it takes 3 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 3 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 Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 53% · 2018 41% · 2019 70% · 2020 25% · 2021 26% · 2022 31% · 2023 38% — 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
42% of Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 36% 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
75% of Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society's grant income comes from Alberta funders.
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 39 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Airdrie And District Community FoundationlocalAB · funds 9 organizations near you
- Angela and Collin Herbers Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Steinbach McC Community Assistance Centre Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Governing Council of the Salvation Army in Canada/Conseil de Direction de L'Armée Du Salut Du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Maritime Conference of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Knox Presbyterian Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Red Deer Food Bank Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Holy Cross Anglican Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coronado Gibbons United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Venue Church Mountain ViewlocalAB · funds 5 organizations near you
- The Rocky View School DivisionlocalAB · funds 10 organizations near you
- St Francis of Assisi Anglican ChurchlocalAB · funds 3 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 Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 16% of FY2020 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need 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 Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society?
- Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society (Alberta) receives grants from 39 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$915,505 to it, the largest being OLYMPIA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$185,000). 14 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 39 organizations giving C$915,505 in grants to Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society, 14 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society?
- OLYMPIA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$185,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need Society 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 39 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