Alberta · Registered charity
THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY)
THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY) (Alberta) receives grants from 27 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$879,285 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$571,034). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- Revenue FY2024
- C$322k
- Funders on record
- 27
- Grants received
- C$879k
- Net assets
- C$380k
What The Magic of Christmas (A Non-Profit Charitable Society) does
Ongoing programs
To spread the loving caring & sharing associated with christmas the most joyous time of the year to those in need in hospitals care centres shelters private homes through the delivery of toys gifts food etc. By teams of santa and elves. We spend time with individuals & families singing christmas carols where appropriate. We provide this service with a minimum of operation costs & overhead appealing to the community & its members for donations of cash facilities vehicles buses supplies food gifts services on dec 24 & 25. We visit over 5000 individuals with over 600 volunteers
As stated on its FY2024 T3010.
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.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from C$302k to C$395k (+30%).
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 12% · 2018 2% · 2019 4% · 2020 2%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
59% of THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY)’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (21% 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
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 9 funders, grant income rose C$9k → C$125k.
From the CRA filings of THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY)’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 26 of 27 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 MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY) leans on a few funders — its largest provides 65% of grant income and the top three 83%; 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 MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY).
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 54% · 2018 59% · 2019 56% · 2020 53% · 2021 76% · 2022 64% · 2023 77% — 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
28% of THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY)'s funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 56% 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 MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY) draws 79% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 4 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$8k 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.
Against its field
THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY) runs a healthier operating margin than three-quarters of the 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 4,360 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2024
Government revenue THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY) reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 2% of FY2020 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE 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
56% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY)?
- THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY) (Alberta) receives grants from 27 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$879,285 to it, the largest being CANADAHELPS CANADON (C$571,034). 15 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY) have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 27 organizations giving C$879,285 in grants to THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY), 15 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE SOCIETY)?
- CANADAHELPS CANADON is the largest funder on record, with C$571,034 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like THE MAGIC OF CHRISTMAS (A NON-PROFIT CHARITABLE 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 27 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 October 14, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register