Alberta · Registered charity
True North Water Charity
True North Water Charity (Alberta) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$25,130 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
True North Water Charity's revenue fell 47% between 2018 and 2022.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,067 foundations nonprofits under $100k, 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.
- The Lao's Family Charitable Trustshared funders
- Rethink Charity Foundationportfolio match
- Rosutec Charitable Foundationportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 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.
100% of True North Water Charity’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 5 reported years ran a deficit.
Who funds it, year by year
2018 → 2022: the base broadened from 1 funder to 2 funders, grant income fell C$3k → C$3k.
From the CRA filings of True North Water Charity’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
True North Water Charity leans on a few funders — its largest provides 40% of grant income and the top three 88%; half comes from just 2 funders.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 2 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 True North Water Charity.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2018 100% · 2019 79% · 2020 63% · 2022 95% — 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.
Where its funders are
52% of True North Water Charity's grant income comes from Alberta funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$10k 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.
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.
- The Lao's Family Charitable Trustshared fundersON · backs 6 organizations that share your funders
- Rethink Charity Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rosutec Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Horne Family Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Riley Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Walter and Duncan Gordon Charitable Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Cloverleaf Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Pkm Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Edith and Bernard Ennis Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The M.H. Brigham Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rotary Club of Campbellford Charitable Trustportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Petersen Turofsky Charitable 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 True North Water Charity
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 True North Water Charity?
- True North Water Charity (Alberta) receives grants from 7 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$25,130 to it, the largest being Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada (C$10,000). 3 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does True North Water Charity have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 7 organizations giving C$25,130 in grants to True North Water Charity, 3 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of True North Water Charity?
- Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada is the largest funder on record, with C$10,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like True North Water Charity 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 2018–2022), and the filings of 7 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