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Alberta · Registered charity

THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA (Alberta) receives grants from 345 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$291,772,002 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION (C$51,067,014). 229 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$2.0B
Revenue FY2024
345
Funders on record
C$292M
Grants received
C$2.7B
Net assets
229/345 repeat fundersgrants exceed reported revenue in one year

Against its field

THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA has grown faster than three-quarters of the 220 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.

Operating margin0% · below the median
Months of reserve0.2mo · bottom quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)170% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 220 teaching institutions 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.

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$1.9M) Expenses 100 (C$1.8M) Net assets 100 (C$1.9M)2018 Revenue 103 (C$1.9M) Expenses 102 (C$1.9M) Net assets 107 (C$2.0M)2019 Revenue 105221 (C$2.0B) Expenses 99963 (C$1.8B) Net assets 116354 (C$2.2B)2020 Revenue 99307 (C$1.9B) Expenses 102842 (C$1.9B) Net assets 105855 (C$2.0B)2021 Revenue 94221 (C$1.8B) Expenses 93577 (C$1.7B) Net assets 128545 (C$2.4B)2022 Revenue 101818 (C$1.9B) Expenses 96135 (C$1.8B) Net assets 137005 (C$2.6B)2023 Revenue 102414 (C$1.9B) Expenses 101913 (C$1.9B) Net assets 138493 (C$2.6B)2024 Revenue 104960 (C$2.0B) Expenses 106035 (C$2.0B) Net assets 145407 (C$2.7B)
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Revenue (104960)Expenses (106035)Net assets (145407)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 61% · 2018 59% · 2019 58% · 2020 57% · 2021 56% · 2022 48% · 2023 49% · 2024 47%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

13% of THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (0% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 208 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$25k
’17
C$53k
’18
C$123M
’19
−C$40M
’20
C$35M
’21
C$130M
’22
C$35M
’23
C$6.5M
’24
0.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 153 funders to 151 funders, grant income rose C$36M → C$36M.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
C$37M
Temerty Foundationunclassified
C$6.4M
C$1.8M
C$1.6M
Cidel Foundationunclassified
C$1.5M
C$1.3M
C$1.1M
funders
153
140
150
140
140
141
151
161

From the CRA filings of THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 345 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 GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 18% 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 GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA.

18%
largest funder
46%
top three
~12
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 31% · 2018 17% · 2019 17% · 2020 24% · 2021 19% · 2022 25% · 2023 22% — 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

46% of THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 66% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

67% of THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA's grant income comes from Alberta funders.

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

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’23
Alberta out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$12M arriving through sponsors registered in 6 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.

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. Your 345 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA reports

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

FY2024C$920M
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  • 47% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA

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

04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

92% of spending goes to programs.

Program 92%Management 8%Fundraising 1%

Governance

26
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA?
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA (Alberta) receives grants from 345 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$291,772,002 to it, the largest being UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION (C$51,067,014). 229 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 345 organizations giving C$291,772,002 in grants to THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA, 229 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA?
UNIVERSITY HOSPITALS FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$51,067,014 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA 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 345 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