Edmonton, AB · Public foundation
Alberta Cancer Foundation
The ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION provides funds for cancer research the prevention detection education and diagnosis of cancer and for the treatment and care of cancer patients within alberta.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$5k
- C$10k–50k3 grants · C$119k
- C$50k–250k3 grants · C$346k
- C$250k+3 grants · C$26M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Alberta Health Services | C$13,953,432 |
| University of Calgary | C$7,559,609 |
| University of Alberta | C$4,053,818 |
| Canadian Cancer Society | C$205,491 |
| Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation | C$90,240 |
| Prostate Cancer Centre Southern Alberta Institute of Urology | C$50,000 |
| Barrhead Healthcare Centre Auxiliary | C$45,000 |
| Covenant Foundation | C$43,701 |
| Kids with Cancer Society | C$30,000 |
| University Hospital Foundation | C$2,403 |
| Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation | C$2,403 |
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.
8 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$26M went to new ones.
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
- AHAlberta Health Services7× · 2017–2023 · C$62M · revenue +18%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA7× · 2017–2023 · C$37M · revenue ×1,050
- UOUniversity of Calgary7× · 2017–2023 · C$18M · revenue +27%
Funded once
- WEWELLSPRING EDMONTONone grant, 2022 · C$270k · revenue -99% · 42% of their budget
- BCBREAST CANCER SUPPORTIVE CANCER FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · C$150k
- KWKids with Cancer Society of Northern Albertaone grant, 2023 · C$40k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
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The alberta cancer foundation provides funds for cancer research the prevention detection education and diagnosis of cancer and for the treatment and care of cancer patients within alberta.
The charity receives donations on-line. a grant of $10 000 was awarded to the alberta children’s hospital foundation in support of pediatric cancer research
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Kids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta and the most unlike its peers is Athabasca University. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 26 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds Alberta Health Services ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ↗
- Who funds University of Calgary ↗
- Who funds Princess Margaret Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING CALGARY ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN ↗
- Who funds WELLSPRING EDMONTON ↗
- Who funds KIDS WITH CANCER SOCIETY OF NORTHERN ALBERTA ↗
- Who funds The Terry Fox Research Institute ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ATHABASCA ↗
- Who funds KIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION ↗
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.
Open a dossier: United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · The Calgary Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · United Way of Greater Toronto · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.