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Podium Alberta
Government of Alberta
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The official page says: “Applications now closed.”
Read from the official page on October 14, 2026. Confirm the deadline on the official page before you apply.
- Amount
- Not stated on the page
- Cost share
- Not stated on the page
- Who can apply
- Individuals
- Where
- Alberta
What it is
Provides funding to Alberta’s high-performance athletes to help cover costs related to training, equipment and living expenses.
Eligible organizations: Individual
Description from Alberta arts, culture and sport grants, the funder’s own list of programs. The Government of Canada’s Business Benefits Finder (list of July 17, 2025) doesn’t include it.
What applicants actually got
From Alberta’s grant payments disclosure: every payment the province filed under this program.
- Awards, fiscal 2025-26
- 240
- recipients paid that year
- Typical award
- $1,760–$4,380
- the middle half, fiscal 2023-24 to 2025-26
- Median award
- $2,640
- 714 awards, fiscal 2023-24 to 2025-26
- All years
- $8.7M
- 2,611 awards, fiscal 2015-16 to 2025-26
Alberta grant payments disclosure, fiscal years 2015-16 to 2025-26 (April to March). An award is one recipient’s total from the program in one fiscal year; amounts of $0 or less count as $0. Medians use complete fiscal years. Source: Government of Alberta, open.alberta.ca, Open Government Licence – Alberta.
Who got it
Organizations paid the most under this program, fiscal 2015-16 to 2025-26.
No payments to organizations this site names.
Plus 2,636 payments ($8.7M) to individuals, sole proprietors and recipients this site does not name. They count in every total above. Why
Latest payments
No dated payments to organizations this site names.
By fiscal year
Awards by the fiscal year (April to March) they were paid in; the median is over awards above $0.
| Fiscal year | Awards | Median award | Total |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025-26 | 240 | $2,640 | $694K |
| 2024-25 | 242 | $2,640 | $712K |
| 2023-24 | 232 | $2,640 | $700K |
| 2022-23 | 232 | $3,068 | $707K |
| 2021-22 | 204 | $2,920 | $660K |
| 2020-21 | 231 | $2,480 | $650K |
| 2019-20 | 271 | $2,754 | $765K |
| 2018-19 | 239 | $3,600 | $961K |
| 2017-18 | 249 | $3,600 | $991K |
| 2016-17 | 256 | $3,600 | $986K |
| 2015-16 | 215 | $3,600 | $851K |
Matched to 5 program names in Alberta’s disclosure (by Claude, checked against who was paid):
- “PODIUM ALBERTA” (Tourism and Sport, 2023-24 to 2025-26, 715 payments)
- “PODIUM ALBERTA” (Culture, 2022-23, 232 payments)
- “PODIUM ALBERTA” (Culture and Status of Women, 2021-22, 204 payments)
- “PODIUM ALBERTA” (Culture, Multiculturalism and Status of Women, 2019-20 to 2020-21, 502 payments)
- “PODIUM ALBERTA” (Culture and Tourism, 2015-16 to 2019-20, 983 payments)
More programs: Alberta.