Alberta · Registered charity
THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY
THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 55 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$748,294 to it, the largest being GERTRUDE HORROBIN, ELSA AND MARGARET LINKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$123,160). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 17 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 17 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits over $100M, 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.
- Fondation Franco-Albertainelocal
- George C. Hunt Family Foundationportfolio match
- Home Instead Charitiesportfolio 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 74% · 2018 74% · 2019 73% · 2020 74% · 2021 75% · 2022 74% · 2023 75% · 2024 72%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
2% of THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (5% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 20 funders to 19 funders, grant income fell C$69k → C$49k.
From the CRA filings of THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 55 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
THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 16% of grant income, and it takes 4 funders to reach half.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 4 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 THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 52% · 2019 57% · 2020 36% · 2021 27% · 2022 31% · 2023 32% — 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
35% of THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 49% 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
THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY draws 54% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 6 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$288k arriving through sponsors registered in 3 regions 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.
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 55 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Fondation Franco-AlbertainelocalAB · funds 6 organizations near you
- George C. Hunt Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Home Instead Charitiesportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Saint Elizabeth Community Enterpriseportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Helpage Canada - / Aide Aux Aînes (Canada)portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Kinsmen Foundation Inc.portfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Harold E. Ballard Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Kensington Health Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Bayshore Foundation for Empowered Livingportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Tom and Ruth Kritsch Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Healing Cycle Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Regional Authority of the Greater North Central Francophone Education Region #2localAB · funds 4 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 THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 72% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE GOOD SAMARITAN 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
93% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY?
- THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 55 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$748,294 to it, the largest being GERTRUDE HORROBIN, ELSA AND MARGARET LINKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION (C$123,160). 27 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 55 organizations giving C$748,294 in grants to THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY, 27 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY?
- GERTRUDE HORROBIN, ELSA AND MARGARET LINKE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$123,160 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE GOOD SAMARITAN 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 55 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