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Lacombe, AB · Charitable organization

A Better World Helping Hands Canada

We provide funding in 6 countries overseas for education development health services and water and sanitation development.

C$31k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$28k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$3k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$28k
C$2,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Burman UniversityC$28,476
Red Deer Soup KitchenC$2,000
Parkview Adventist AcademyC$866
02Your edge
repeat funding

Who you back again

Which organizations you funded more than once, and which you funded a single time. Each grantee is matched to its own filings.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$159k · 8 repeat orgsC$46k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
9

Total granted

C$159k
C$46k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time

First-time = a grantee’s first year in your filing window; renewed = funded in an earlier year too. As a portfolio matures the renewed share naturally climbs — once funded, an org stays “renewable” — so the signal is the years that buck it (a new-grantee intake wave). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as “new.”

Backed again, and grew

  • RD
    Red Deer Soup Kitchen
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$14k · revenue +645%
  • RC
    Rotary Club of Lethbridge East
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$13k · revenue +2%
  • MS
    Mustard Seed
    4× · 2018–2023 · C$13k · revenue +77%

Funded once

  • M
    Miseje
    one grant, 2023 · C$19k · revenue -8% · 35% of their budget
  • AM
    ASI Mission Canada Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +126%
  • AS
    Alternative School Centre
    one grant, 2021 · C$6k · revenue +11%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field

The map has a center of gravity: the average direction from the rest of the sector toward the organizations the foundation funds — the shape of its giving. Scoring every nonprofit along that direction surfaces the ones that look most like the portfolio. These are the closest matches that aren’t grantees — a resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
The Red Deer Public Schools Scholarship Trust
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2
The AIMCo Foundation for Financial Education

Community grants to registered charities and qualified donees supporting financial literacy and education in Alberta; Scholarships to students studying business finance or a related field through six Alberta post-secondary institutions.…

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3
The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund

1) supporting international projects that include clean water supply and disease prevention building sustainable homes and providing support for education. 2) stay in school mentoring scholarships and youth programs. 3) supporting families…

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4
Community Foundation of Central Alberta

The foundation is a community catalyst committed to growing a legacy which strengthens the quality of life in red deer and central alberta. activities in support of their mission include: working with donors to enable them to meet their…

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5
Missions Education Fund

Missions Education Fund is an organization that assists deprived poor children to receive an education with the objective of lifting them out of poverty and enabling them to become responsible mature and productive members of their society

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6
Educationmatters

Advance and enhance public education in the city of calgary by providing grants to qualified donees involved in public education. the principal donee is the calgary board of education

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7
Calgary Catholic Education Foundation

The calgary catholic education foundation ('ccef') is a resource dedicated to enhancing the educational experiences of students in the calgary catholic school district. the ccef provides funds for enhanced learning opportunities for…

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8
The Boots for Kids Foundation of Alberta

Provide winter boots and other clothing to needy elementary school children in alberta. help relieve poverty.

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9
The Red Deer College Foundation

The red deer college foundation serves as the fundraising arm of red deer polytechnic in support of learners - including bursaries scholarships capital projects equipment and some program support.

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10
Calgary Changemakers in Education Society

Operating an Alberta accredited elementary school

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11
Child Aid International Fund Society

Making Gifts to Qualified Donees

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12
Edmonton Catholic Schools Foundation

The mission of the edmonton catholic schools foundation is to raise public awareness concerning the benefits of and to enhance the funding for catholic education in the city of edmonton. the foundation will raise funds with integrity…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Emmanuel Foundation for International Community Development and the most unlike its peers is Burman University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

02the grantee network

16 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each one resolved to its own CRA returns and tracked year by year — your grant beside their revenue from every source. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

Counted here: distinct organizations you funded across 2017–2024, not grant rows in a single year — so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 16 of the 17 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile; the rest are funded organizations whose filings we could not track year by year.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBurman University — C$65,676 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCrossroads Church — C$26,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRed Deer Public School District Foundation — C$19,500 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetMiseje — C$18,529 over 1y, 35% of budgetRed Deer Soup Kitchen — C$14,281 over 6y, 3.0% of budgetRotary Club of Lethbridge East — C$13,250 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetMustard Seed — C$13,219 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetASI Mission Canada Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAlternative School Centre — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLacombe and District FCSS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCommunity Care Network Society (Parker St) — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLacombe First Baptist Church — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMamawi Atosketan School — C$2,650 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEmmanuel Foundation — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetImerial Order Daughters of the Empire — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanada Helps — C$96 over 1y, 0.0% of budget
Go grantee by grantee — a decade per org, and how each moved after you funded them

A decade per grantee — revenue shaded, your grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

The grantmakers whose grantees overlap with yours far more than size alone predicts. Each orbits closer the stronger the alignment; the arcs between them show where they also fund each other. Here it reads as a tightly interlocked camp — most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Strategic Charitable …The Calgary FoundationVancouver FoundationBenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Strategic Charitable Giving FoundationON7.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 9 of 9Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon

Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. A research starting point: overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read directly from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data — your own annual information return and the multi-year returns of the 17 grantees we resolved across every year we hold, several hundred filings in all (a different count from the grant rows on the cover, which are one fiscal year) — each linked to its source. Grantee achievements and outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010; we read these as association with sustained funding — the foundation is one of several forces — suppress low-confidence name matches rather than guess, and say so where a figure rests on a single grant or filing. Not everything on this page is a filed figure, and the difference matters. Filed is what you reported on your return. Official is another government record about an organization, such as a federal award or a charity register, joined by name where no shared identifier exists. Resolved is an identity we worked out where the filing named a recipient without a BN, kept only above a measured confidence threshold. Computed is arithmetic over those, like themes, portfolio clusters and co-funder strength. Context is a statistic about a place rather than about an organization, which is what the need overlay is: it describes the area a grantee’s address sits in, not where its work lands. Inferred is drawn by a model from text, like the partnerships read out of public news and organization websites. Each is labeled where it appears. How we build these →

Generated from your T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under teaching institutions.

Source object 800994006:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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