Alberta · Registered charity
TAILS OF HELP
TAILS OF HELP (Alberta) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$373,774 to it, the largest being THE CALGARY FOUNDATION (C$191,626). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
TAILS OF HELP has grown faster than half of the 435 animal welfare nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 435 animal welfare 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.
- McEachern Family Foundationshared funders
- Help a Buddy Fundportfolio match
- Petsmart Charities of Canada - Charités Petsmart du Canadaportfolio 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.
14% of TAILS OF HELP’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (53% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 5 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 5 funders to 4 funders, grant income rose C$28k → C$119k.
From the CRA filings of TAILS OF HELP’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
TAILS OF HELP leans on a few funders — its largest provides 51% of grant income and the top three 97%; 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 TAILS OF HELP.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 40% · 2018 75% · 2019 77% · 2020 69% · 2021 84% · 2022 69% · 2023 86% — 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
44% of TAILS OF HELP's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% 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
53% of TAILS OF HELP'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.
- McEachern Family Foundationshared fundersAB · backs 10 organizations that share your funders
- Help a Buddy Fundportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Petsmart Charities of Canada - Charités Petsmart du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Four Feet Companion Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pacific Animal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- British Columbia Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animalsportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals / Société de Protection Des Animaux de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Societyportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Paws for Hope Animal Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. Margolisportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kathleen-Mary and Walter Barron Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canfel Foundationportfolio 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.
Organizations like TAILS OF HELP
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.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds TAILS OF HELP?
- TAILS OF HELP (Alberta) receives grants from 11 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$373,774 to it, the largest being THE CALGARY FOUNDATION (C$191,626). 7 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does TAILS OF HELP have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 11 organizations giving C$373,774 in grants to TAILS OF HELP, 7 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of TAILS OF HELP?
- THE CALGARY FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$191,626 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like TAILS OF HELP 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 11 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