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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Allardyce Bower Foundation

The charity status was approved november 25 2013.

C$772k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$194k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$41k
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$731k
C$59,223
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipientC$194,097
BRIAR HILL SCHOOLC$88,499
BOW RIDGE LITTLE LEAGUEC$86,577
FOOTHILLS LITTLE LEAGUE BASEBALL ASSOCIATIONC$74,265
AUTISM ASPERGERS FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY OF CALGARYC$73,361
DALHOUSIE ELEMENTARY SCHOOLC$59,223
HIDDEN VALLEY DRIVING SCHOOLC$52,908
SHEEP RIVER HEALTH TRUSTC$51,850
Individual grant recipientC$50,000
BETWEEN FRIENDSC$21,100
PARKDALE UNITED CHURCHC$20,043
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$971k · 10 repeat orgsC$1.5M 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 +10% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
16

Total granted

C$971k
C$860k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+10%

Still filing today

90%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$677k 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

  • RJ
    RESTORATIVE JUSTICE VICTORIA
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$150k · revenue +134% · 31% of their budget
  • AS
    ASPIRE SPECIAL NEEDS RESOURCE CENTRE
    3× · 2020–2023 · C$141k · revenue +11%
  • TC
    THE CALGARY BETWEEN FRIENDS CLUB-FUN AND FELLOWSHIP FOR DISA
    3× · 2018–2024 · C$97k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • PF
    PARKS FOUNDATION CALGARY
    one grant, 2022 · C$190k
  • VC
    VICTORIA COMMUNITY FOOD HUB SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$169k · revenue -39%
  • CW
    CALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$88k · revenue +7%

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
Beam Foundation

BEAM Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of kids & youth in Calgary Alberta. Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable wellness programs to children and youth who are…

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2
Calgary Academy Society

Operating a private day school for students diagnosed with learning difficulties.

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3
Centre for Autism Services Alberta

Intensive intervention and ECS programs for children youth teens and young adults with autism Family support services Therapeutic and recreational groups for children youth teens and young adults with autism Employment readiness and…

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4
Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association

The charity supports children who are living with disabilities and specialized needs in our communities. Through education advocacy direct support and community outreach we support children who are facing physical developmental emotional…

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5
Bcedaccess Society

BCEdAccess Society provides education to families allies professionals and students about children with disabilities and their options to gain an education in the BC school system. The society also provides community engagement promotes…

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6
Autism Calgary Association

Family public and community education; information and referral; advocacy; community presentations; in-house services and conferences; peer to peer networking; community based events providing opportunities for social interaction between…

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7
Calgary Therapeutic Riding Association

Our therapeutic riding programs provide unforgettable experiences and can benefit participants physically cognitively and socially.

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8
Autism Society Alberta

Education and peer support - assisting families that are experiencing autism in their family unit. Matching more experienced members to mentor new members. Improving understanding of autism throughout the province of Alberta. Provide…

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9
Action for Bright Children (Calgary Society)
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10
Rocky Mountain Adaptive Sports Centre

Rocky Mountain Adaptive provides a variety of adaptive mountain sports and recreation activities year-round in the Canadian Rockies for persons with physical developmental and cognitive challenges and their families and friends. The…

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11
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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12
Easter Seals Alberta Society

We provide mobility equipment and support services for the disabled operate a camp for individuals with disabilities and special needs and maintain a residence for 9 individuals with disabilities. We also provide post secondary…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Camp Carmangay. 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

22 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. 22 of the 35 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetVICTORIA COMMUNITY FOOD HUB SOCIETY — C$168,685 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetRESTORATIVE JUSTICE VICTORIA — C$150,000 over 3y, 31% of budgetASPIRE SPECIAL NEEDS RESOURCE CENTRE — C$141,400 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$112,900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CALGARY BETWEEN FRIENDS CLUB-FUN AND FELLOWSHIP FOR DISA — C$96,940 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetAUTISM ASPERGERS FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$88,741 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ASSOCIATION — C$87,905 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES — C$76,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLIGHT UP THE WORLD — C$66,400 over 1y, 14% of budgetCASSIE AND FRIENDS — C$53,253 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSHEEP RIVER HEALTH TRUST — C$51,850 over 1y, 12% of budgetVECOVA CENTRE FOR DISABILITY SERVICES AND RESEARCH — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMeticulon Consulting — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCAMP CARMANGAY — C$29,135 over 2y, 26% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY'S KIDS — C$25,030 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetJOHN G DIEFENBAKER HIGH SCHOOL — C$23,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetULTIMATE WHEELCHAIR SPORTS FOUNDATION — C$21,014 over 1y, 34% of budgetSCHOOL DISTRICTY 67 — C$21,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetELBOYA SCHOOL FUNDRAISING SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 7.8% of budgetOUR LADY OF SORROWS CATHOLIC SCHOOL — C$19,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetRENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES — C$19,000 over 1y, 31% of budgetCALGARY YOUTH JUSTICE SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

United Way of Calgary…Calgary Flames Founda…Kids Up Front Foundat…Cenovus Employee Foun…The Calgary FoundationChildren's Hospital A…Harry and Martha Cohe…Atco Electric EpicGoodlife Kids Foundat…United Way of the Alb…Aqueduct FoundationVancouver Foundation
United Way of Calgary and AreaAB11.8× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Calgary and Area · Calgary Flames Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Cenovus Employee Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Children's Hospital Aid Society · Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Goodlife Kids Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver 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 35 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 824551030:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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