Alberta · Registered charity
VERB THEATRE SOCIETY
VERB THEATRE SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$61,383 to it, the largest being AQUEDUCT FOUNDATION (C$41,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
VERB THEATRE SOCIETY's revenue fell 49% between 2017 and 2024.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 781 education in the arts 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.
- Mercy Hill Christian Churchlocal
- Kingfisher Foundationportfolio match
- The Youssef-Warren Foundationportfolio 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 62% · 2018 75% · 2019 68% · 2020 66% · 2021 88% · 2022 72% · 2023 88% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
54% of VERB THEATRE SOCIETY’s revenue is contributions — more donation-reliant than the typical peer (30% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 3 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 4 funders to 3 funders, grant income fell C$10k → C$3k.
From the CRA filings of VERB THEATRE SOCIETY’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
VERB THEATRE SOCIETY leans on a few funders — its largest provides 67% of grant income and the top three 93%; 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 VERB THEATRE SOCIETY.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 49% · 2018 93% · 2019 100% · 2020 89% · 2021 49% · 2022 97% · 2023 94% — 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.
Where its funders are
VERB THEATRE SOCIETY draws 69% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 3 regions in all.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. 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.
- Mercy Hill Christian ChurchlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Kingfisher Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Youssef-Warren Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Council for Business and the Arts in Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Lawrence Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Deux Mille Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontarioportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Bulmash-Siegel Private Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Coldstream Christian ChurchlocalBC · funds 2 organizations near you
- Beech Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Lindy Green Family Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Craig 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.
Government revenue VERB THEATRE SOCIETY reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 82% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like VERB THEATRE 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
34% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds VERB THEATRE SOCIETY?
- VERB THEATRE SOCIETY (Alberta) receives grants from 5 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$61,383 to it, the largest being AQUEDUCT FOUNDATION (C$41,000). 4 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does VERB THEATRE SOCIETY have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 5 organizations giving C$61,383 in grants to VERB THEATRE SOCIETY, 4 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of VERB THEATRE SOCIETY?
- AQUEDUCT FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$41,000 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like VERB THEATRE 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 5 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