Alberta · Registered charity
Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association
Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association (Alberta) receives grants from 25 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,509,785 to it, the largest being Variety Club of Alberta, Tent 61, Heart of Variety Trust (C$703,764). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 1,132 community resource nonprofits its size.
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.
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fundshared fundersportfolio match
- William & Florence Lede Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
- Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundationshared fundersportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2022, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2022, 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: 2023 21% · 2024 28%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
85% of Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (4% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 2 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2022 → 2023: the base broadened from 7 funders to 10 funders, grant income fell C$818k → C$251k.
From the CRA filings of Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association’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
Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association leans on a few funders — its largest provides 47% of grant income and the top three 69%; 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 Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2022 86% · 2023 50% — 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
78% of Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association'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$184k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 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 25 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fundshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 64 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- William & Florence Lede Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 26 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 89 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Children's Hospital Aid Societyshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 37 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Butler Family Foundationshared fundersportfolio matchAB · backs 85 organizations that share your funders · its grantees resemble your mission
- Caron Education Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Wolfe Pack Warriors Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Avery Linton Legacy Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Rockyview Alliance ChurchlocalAB · funds 3 organizations near you
- Headwater Learning FoundationlocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Stettler Alliance ChurchlocalAB · funds 2 organizations near you
- Edmonton Realtors' Charitable Foundationshared fundersAB · backs 52 organizations that share your funders
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 Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 28% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association
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
77% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association?
- Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association (Alberta) receives grants from 25 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,509,785 to it, the largest being Variety Club of Alberta, Tent 61, Heart of Variety Trust (C$703,764). 8 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 25 organizations giving C$1,509,785 in grants to Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association, 8 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association?
- Variety Club of Alberta, Tent 61, Heart of Variety Trust is the largest funder on record, with C$703,764 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association 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 2022–2024), and the filings of 25 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