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Edmonton, AB · Charitable organization

Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to assist individual residents in alberta in the advancement of their education through the provision of: 1) gifts to qualified educational institutions and individuals located in alberta for purpose of providing scholarships bursaries and prizes for scholastic achievement.

C$758k
Granted FY2024still arriving
187
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 187 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k171 grants · C$249k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$210k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$300k
C$1,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JASPER COMMUNITY TEAM SOCIETYC$50,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CALGARYC$50,000
Individual grant recipientC$50,000
PARENTS ACTIVELY CREATING EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES SOCIETYC$50,000
SALT PRAIRIE SETTLEMENT COMMUNITY CLUB FUNDSC$50,000
STONEY TRIBAL ADMINISTRATIONC$50,000
HEARTS OF BLUE CHARITY FUNDC$40,000
FRESH ROUTES INCC$26,641
ASSOCIATION FOR ACTION ON SMOKING & HEALTHC$25,000
CKUA RADIO NETWORKC$25,000
EVER ACTIVE SCHOOLSC$20,000
ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATIONC$20,000
STARS FOUNDATIONC$18,500
ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$12,500
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$12,000
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.5M · 107 repeat orgsC$1.1M to everyone else

107 repeat relationships — 70 still active in FY2024, 37 since wound down; 92 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

107
72

Total granted

C$2.5M
C$685k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+21%

Still filing today

96%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$393k 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

  • UW
    United Way of the Alberta Capital Region
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$374k · revenue +25%
  • TG
    THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$155k · revenue ×1,050
  • HO
    HEARTS OF BLUE CHARITY FUND
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$140k · revenue +61% · 72% of their budget

Funded once

  • CC
    CALGARY CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +21%
  • NL
    NORTHERN LIGHTS SCHOOL DIVISION
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue -6%
  • FO
    Friends of Saint Francis
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue -13%

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
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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2
Alberta Public Health Association

Provide public health information to members of the public provide public health professional and student engagement opportunities in public health and promote health protection initiatives

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3
Calgary Eye Foundation

Foundation supports calgary's ophthalmology program through enhanced education research and program development.

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4
Alberta Spine Foundation

The objective of the asf is to advance the delivery of spine care in alberta through innovative clinical care focused education and academic collaboration.

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5
Hockey Alberta Foundation

The hockey alberta foundation supports numerous charities/qualified donees to assist in helping kids families and communities access equipment programs mentorship and leadership development with the goal of providing opportunities for kids…

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6
The Alberta Lung Foundation
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7
The Calgary Foundation

The Calgary Foundation carried out its charitable purpose through the ongoing administration of its granting programs. While the Foundation provides grants to support charitable activity across the entire sector it has a particular focus…

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8
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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9
Als Society of Alberta

The als society of alberta is a charitable organization dedicated to making each day the best possible day for people living with and affected by als (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) across the province of alberta. we achieve our mission by…

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10
Friends of the University of Alberta

Fund Student Scholarships and Awards Sponsor public lectures featuring University Speakers Financially support university programs to engage the broader community

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11
Red Deer Public School District Foundation

Advancement of education

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12
Calgary Homeless Foundation

Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness. Providing grants to qualified donees and other community organizations to assist individuals experiencing homelessness…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwestern Alberta Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vauxhall Public Library. 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

260 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. 260 of the 271 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
30
Early backer (in before they grew)
250/260
Grantees still filing
132/260
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUnited Way of the Alberta Capital Region — C$374,397 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$175,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$154,750 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetHEARTS OF BLUE CHARITY FUND — C$140,019 over 6y, 72% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$87,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetASSOCIATION FOR ACTION ON SMOKING & HEALTH — C$80,000 over 4y, 8.5% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetTHE ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$70,700 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA HEALTH SERVICES — C$64,164 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE — C$61,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD BANKS ALBERTA — C$50,100 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCALGARY CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFriends of Saint Francis — C$50,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetJASPER COMMUNITY TEAM SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCKUA RADIO NETWORK — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetRIVERBEND ELEMENTARY PARENTS' SOCEITY OF CALGARY — C$50,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetTHE NORQUEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$44,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetEVER ACTIVE SCHOOLS — C$43,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE LUNG ASSOCIATION ALBERTA & NWT — C$43,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$42,150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTARS FOUNDATION — C$34,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOOKING AT THE STARS FOUNDATION — C$32,400 over 1y, 51% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$31,800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSouthern Alberta Institute of Technology — C$31,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION ALBERTA DIVISION — C$28,500 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetCALGARY COUNSELLING CENTER — C$28,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLETHBRIDGE COLLEGE — C$25,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CIVIL LIBERTIES — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetUMOJA COMMUNITY MOSAIC(NEXT EVOLUTION OF SWB) — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetNORTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$25,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Medical Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 41% of budgetFREE PLAY FOR KIDS INC — C$24,100 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE REGIONAL COLLEGE — C$22,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$22,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE APPLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$22,500 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetATHABASCA UNIVERSITY — C$21,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$20,950 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN LIVER FOUNDATION — C$20,814 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOW VALLEY COLLEGE — C$20,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Senior's Resource Society — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE MEDICINE HAT COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$18,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE RED DEER COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$18,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAlberta Diabetes Foundation — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetShock Trauma Air Rescue Society — C$16,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$15,955 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S AUTISM SERVICES OF EDMONTON — C$15,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FRIENDS OF THE NORTHERN ALBERTA INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL S — C$15,000 over 1y, 4.0% 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.

Edmonton Oilers Commu…Atco Gas Employees' C…The Edmonton Communit…Butler Family Foundat…The Stollery Charitab…Atco Electric EpicAllard Foundation Ltd.Alberta Blue Cross He…Northwestern Alberta …The Edmonton Civic Em…The Muttart FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…
Edmonton Oilers Community FoundationAB48.5× affinity68 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Butler Family Foundation · The Stollery Charitable Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Allard Foundation Ltd. · Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue · Northwestern Alberta Foundation · The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund · The Muttart Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation

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 271 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 support of schools and education.

Source object 874593627:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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