For perhaps obvious reasons, I don’t have much good to say about the Alberta Government and its premier, Danielle Smith. But something interesting has come from the Alberta Government. The government has launched an Alberta Non-profit Listing Dashboard. Here is additional information at Alberta Non-Profit Listing and it notes:
Description
Alberta laws authorize the creation or incorporation of certain non-profit organizations and extra-provincial registration of organizations from other provinces and countries. In Alberta, incorporation can take place under the Agricultural Societies Act, Companies Act, Religious Societies Lands Act, Societies Act, and a small number of private acts. Extra-provincial registration of non-profit organizations from outside Alberta takes place under the Business Corporations Act. The list indicates the type of organization, the name of the non-profit organization, its current status, its registration date, city, and postal code.
There are also some pretty useful visualizations that you can use.
Here are the status definitions used on the database:
| Status Assigned by the Registrar of Corporations | Description |
| active | Assigned to an Alberta society, Alberta non-profit company, or extra-provincial non-profit legal entity that is valid and subsisting in Alberta. |
| active – limited time, court order | Assigned when the Court grants an order to revive or reactivate the legal status of an Alberta society for a limited purpose or limited period of time. |
| amalgamated | A ‘non-active’ status assigned to an Alberta society, Alberta non-profit company, or extra-provincial non-profit legal entity to indicate that it has joined together (amalgamated/merged) with at least one other legal entity. The combined organization is a new legal entity and has a new registration number. |
| cancelled | A ‘non-active’ status assigned to an extra-provincial non-profit legal entity that has voluntarily withdrawn from Alberta, been dissolved in its home jurisdiction, or has not submitted required information to the Registrar of Corporations for at least one year. It means the organization is no longer registered in Alberta. |
| con out | A ‘non-active’ status assigned to an Alberta society once it has continued (transferred its legal existence) to a new jurisdiction and is no longer an Alberta society. |
| deleted | Assigned when a non-profit entity was registered in error, e.g. a duplicate record. |
| dissolved | A ‘non-active’ status assigned to an Alberta society or non-profit company that has voluntarily ceased to exist and ended its activities. It means the organization no longer has a legal existence. |
| liquid | An ‘active’ status assigned to an Alberta society, Alberta non-profit company, or extra-provincial non-profit legal entity. It means the organization is in the process of liquidating its assets to satisfy any debt obligations. Liquidation sometimes occurs prior to the voluntary dissolution or cancellation of a non-profit legal entity. |
| start | An interim status assigned when the Registrar of Corporations has started the dissolution or cancellation process for an Alberta society, Alberta non-profit company, or extra-provincial non-profit legal entity. It means the organization has not submitted required information for at least one year. The organization is still legally in existence until it is dissolved or cancelled by the Registrar. The status of the organization can revert to ‘active’ if the required information is submitted before the Registrar completes the dissolution or cancellation process. |
| start – limited purpose | An interim status assigned when the Registrar of Corporations has started the dissolution process for an Alberta society or non-profit company. It means the organization has not submitted a status report that is required when there has been a Court-ordered revival or restoration for a limited purpose or period of time. The organization is still legally in existence until it is dissolved by the Registrar. |
| start – no attorney | An interim status assigned when the Registrar of Corporations has started the cancellation process for an extra-provincial legal entity. It means the organization has not submitted required attorney information for at least one year. The organization is still actively registered in Alberta until the registration is cancelled by the Registrar. The status of the organization can revert to ‘active’ if the required information is submitted before the Registrar completes the cancellation process. |
| struck | A ‘non-active’ status assigned to an Alberta society, Alberta non-profit company, or extra-provincial non-profit legal entity that has been dissolved or had its registration cancelled by the Registrar of Corporations because it had not submitted required information for at least one year. For Alberta societies and non-profit companies, it means the organization no longer has a legal existence. For extra-provincial non-profits, it means the organization is no longer registered in Alberta. |
| temporary restore | An ‘active’ status assigned when the Court grants an order to restore or reactivate the legal status of an Alberta non-profit company for a limited purpose or limited period of time. |
Here is a listing of about 67,300 Alberta entities and extra-provincial registrations provided by the Government of Alberta under the Open Government Licence:
Alberta non_profit_name_list 2025
Some of these entities will be CharityData.ca if they are a registered charity. There are about 9,150 Alberta-based registered charities on CharityData.ca with about 20 years of T3010 information on them.
The Alberta government should be commended for making this information public. I had to fight the Ontario government to get a list in 2013 of Ontario non-profits.