Alberta · Registered charity
STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY
STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$421,087 to it, the largest being PRAIRIE CROCUS FOUNDATION (C$105,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY's funding has concentrated — grant income rose while the number of funders held roughly flat.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 119 education in the arts 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.
- Obasi Children Foundation Ltd.local
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio match
- Kingfisher Foundationportfolio 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: 2017 10% · 2018 7% · 2019 16% · 2020 16% · 2021 56% · 2022 47% · 2023 33% · 2024 26%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
5% of STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (12% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 6 funders to 5 funders, grant income rose C$18k → C$31k.
From the CRA filings of STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY’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
STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 25% 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 STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 46% · 2018 35% · 2019 66% · 2020 35% · 2021 44% · 2022 62% · 2023 65% — 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 STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 69% 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
96% of STORYBOOK THEATRE 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 16 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Obasi Children Foundation Ltd.localAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kingfisher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Beech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Good Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Peter and Eleanor Daniels Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- West Kootenay Regional Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pitblado Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deux Mille Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Manitoba Arts Councilportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
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 STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 26% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like STORYBOOK THEATRE 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
97% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY?
- STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 16 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$421,087 to it, the largest being PRAIRIE CROCUS FOUNDATION (C$105,000). 11 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 16 organizations giving C$421,087 in grants to STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY, 11 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of STORYBOOK THEATRE SOCIETY?
- PRAIRIE CROCUS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$105,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like STORYBOOK THEATRE 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 16 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