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WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION

WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 71 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,413,135 to it, the largest being THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY / LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (C$2,106,464). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$3.4M
Revenue FY2024
71
Funders on record
C$5.4M
Grants received
C$2.7M
Net assets
34/71 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 33%

Against its field

WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION is better cushioned than half of the 2,748 organizations relieving poverty nonprofits its size.

Operating margin−13% · bottom quartile
Months of reserve4.2mo · above the median
Revenue growth (annualized)−8% · bottom quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 2,748 organizations relieving poverty 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.

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$5.9M) Expenses 100 (C$4.9M) Net assets 100 (C$2.6M)2018 Revenue 45 (C$2.6M) Expenses 71 (C$3.5M) Net assets 66 (C$1.7M)2019 Revenue 57 (C$3.4M) Expenses 69 (C$3.4M) Net assets 65 (C$1.7M)2020 Revenue 113 (C$6.7M) Expenses 110 (C$5.4M) Net assets 114 (C$2.9M)2021 Revenue 59 (C$3.5M) Expenses 50 (C$2.5M) Net assets 130 (C$3.3M)2022 Revenue 56 (C$3.3M) Expenses 64 (C$3.1M) Net assets 136 (C$3.5M)2023 Revenue 59 (C$3.5M) Expenses 79 (C$3.9M) Net assets 122 (C$3.1M)2024 Revenue 57 (C$3.4M) Expenses 78 (C$3.8M) Net assets 105 (C$2.7M)
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Revenue (57)Expenses (78)Net assets (105)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 2% · 2018 8% · 2019 4% · 2020 4% · 2021 11% · 2022 6% · 2023 13% · 2024 12%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

85% of WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (8% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,313 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 4 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$989k
’17
−C$869k
’18
−C$30k
’19
C$1.3M
’20
C$1.0M
’21
C$164k
’22
−C$371k
’23
−C$431k
’24
4.2
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base narrowed from 30 funders to 26 funders, grant income fell C$725k → C$472k.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Giles Family Foundationunclassified
C$270k
Canadahelps Canadonunclassified
C$194k
Right To Foodunclassified
C$50k
PayPal Giving Fund Canadaunclassified
C$37k
Myriad Canada Foundationunclassified
C$15k
Mazon Canadaunclassified
C$13k
Faith Presbyterian Churchunclassified
C$12k
funders
30
22
20
27
20
22
26
19

From the CRA filings of WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 71 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

WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 39% 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 WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION.

39%
largest funder
69%
top three
~4
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 41% · 2018 88% · 2019 46% · 2020 43% · 2021 54% · 2022 46% · 2023 46% — 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

39% of WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% 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

WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION draws 58% of its grant income from funders outside Alberta, across 6 regions in all.

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$134k 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.

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 71 funders put you typical 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 WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION reports

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

FY2024C$424k
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  • 12% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK 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

Coaldale Community Food Bank Society77%Wood Buffalo Community Foundation76%Friends of the Fort McMurray Firefighter Charities Fund Society76%Blackfalds Food Bank Society75%Bow Valley Food Bank Society73%The Fort Saskatchewan Food Gatherers Society73%Strathcona Food Bank Association73%Big Brothers Big Sisters Association of Wood Buffalo73%

Nationally

Food Banks of Saskatchewan Corporation77%Coaldale Community Food Bank Society77%Wood Buffalo Community Foundation76%Manitoba Association of Foodbanks Inc.76%Friends of the Fort McMurray Firefighter Charities Fund Society76%Lac La Ronge Food Bank Inc.76%Blackfalds Food Bank Society75%Grand Falls-Windsor Bishop's Falls Community Food Bank Inc75%
04Profile & governance

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

Where the money goes

90% of spending goes to programs.

Program 90%Management 7%Fundraising 3%

Governance

9
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION?
WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION (Alberta) receives grants from 71 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$5,413,135 to it, the largest being THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY / LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DE LA CROIX-ROUGE (C$2,106,464). 34 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 71 organizations giving C$5,413,135 in grants to WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION, 34 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION?
THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY / LA SOCIETE CANADIENNE DE LA CROIX-ROUGE is the largest funder on record, with C$2,106,464 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK 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 2017–2024), and the filings of 71 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