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THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES

THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES (Alberta) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$47,259 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA (C$45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.

C$1.9M
Revenue FY2024
3
Funders on record
C$47k
Grants received
C$697k
Net assets
3/3 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 2%

Against its field

THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 1,132 community resource nonprofits its size.

Operating margin10% · top quartile
Months of reserve3.8mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)4% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,132 community resource 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$1.4M) Expenses 100 (C$1.4M) Net assets 100 (C$378k)2018 Revenue 100 (C$1.4M) Expenses 100 (C$1.4M) Net assets 111 (C$418k)2019 Revenue 102 (C$1.5M) Expenses 104 (C$1.5M) Net assets 114 (C$433k)2020 Revenue 108 (C$1.6M) Expenses 103 (C$1.5M) Net assets 144 (C$545k)2021 Revenue 86 (C$1.2M) Expenses 87 (C$1.2M) Net assets 139 (C$527k)2022 Revenue 102 (C$1.5M) Expenses 102 (C$1.4M) Net assets 148 (C$561k)2023 Revenue 109 (C$1.6M) Expenses 115 (C$1.6M) Net assets 135 (C$512k)2024 Revenue 132 (C$1.9M) Expenses 122 (C$1.7M) Net assets 184 (C$697k)
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Revenue (132)Expenses (122)Net assets (184)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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 91% · 2018 91% · 2019 93% · 2020 91% · 2021 95% · 2022 92% · 2023 90% · 2024 92%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

79% of THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (4% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 849 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 1 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$35k
’17
C$40k
’18
C$14k
’19
C$98k
’20
C$21k
’21
C$34k
’22
−C$49k
’23
C$185k
’24
3.8
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2018 → 2023: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income rose C$563 → C$32k.

Funder
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total
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$2k
funders
1
2
1
2
2
2

From the CRA filings of THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES’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

THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES leans on a few funders — its largest provides 95% 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 THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES.

95%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 67% · 2021 100% · 2022 99% · 2023 99% — broadly stable.

“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 THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the C$2k that is directly attributable, 89% of it comes from funders outside Alberta, across 2 regions.

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

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Alberta out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$45k arriving through sponsors registered in 1 region is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. 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 THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES reports

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

FY2024C$1.8M
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  • 92% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES

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

Calgary Seniors Resource Society74%Independent Living Resource Centre of Calgary74%Calgary Progressive Lifestyles Foundation74%The Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization73%Calgary Society for Persons With Disabilities72%Rise Calgary Resource Centres Society72%Scope Society of Alberta71%Circle of Red Deer Seniors Society71%

Nationally

Calgary Seniors Resource Society74%Independent Living Resource Centre of Calgary74%Calgary Progressive Lifestyles Foundation74%Chilliwack Opportunity Society73%The Lethbridge Senior Citizens Organization73%Calgary Society for Persons With Disabilities72%Rise Calgary Resource Centres Society72%Scope Society of Alberta71%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 10%Fundraising 0%

Governance

11
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES?
THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES (Alberta) receives grants from 3 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$47,259 to it, the largest being COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA (C$45,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 95% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
How many funders does THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 3 organizations giving C$47,259 in grants to THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES?
COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONS OF CANADA is the largest funder on record, with C$45,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE CALGARY SOCIETY OF COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITIES 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 Calgary Society of Community Opportunities →

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 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