Calgary, AB · Charitable organization
Apega Foundation
The mission of the foundation is to install pride in apega members by investing engineering & geoscience related iniatives in alberta for the benefit of the professions and society.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2021
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$300k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$300k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| BEAKERHEAD CREATIVE SOCIETY | C$300,000 |
| TELUS SPARK SCIENCE CENTRE | C$150,000 |
| TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE | C$150,000 |
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.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2021, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (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 FY2021, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$600k 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
- UOUniversity of Calgary2× · 2017–2018 · C$56k · revenue +27%
- CFCSEG Founation2× · 2017–2018 · C$15k · revenue -59%
- RDRed Deer College Foundation2× · 2017–2018 · C$12k · revenue -61%
Funded once
- UOUniversity of Albertagraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue ×1,050
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALGARYone grant, 2019 · C$25k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAone grant, 2019 · C$17k
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.
The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…
Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.
The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…
Post Secondary Education & Research
The Banff Centre operates under the authority of the Post-Secondary Learning Act (Statutes of Alberta 2003 Chapter P-19.5). The Centre provides the public with the opportunity to access a broad range of learning experiences.
Fund Student Scholarships and Awards Sponsor public lectures featuring University Speakers Financially support university programs to engage the broader community
The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.
Providing post-secondary education by teaching learning scholarship research and community service; --Funding of endowed academic chairs created to assist with achieving the academic goals and objectives of the University; --Philanthrophic…
Awarded scholarships
Post secondary education and training in technology applied arts and trades.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Lethbridge and the most unlike its peers is Beakerhead Creative Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 24 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 BEAKERHEAD CREATIVE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE ↗
- Who funds TELUS SPARK SCIENCE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds University of Calgary ↗
- Who funds University of Alberta ↗
- Who funds CSEG Founation ↗
- Who funds Red Deer College Foundation ↗
- Who funds University of Lethbridge ↗
- Who funds University of sestern Ontario ↗
- Who funds Mout Royal University 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: The Calgary Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · United Way of Calgary and Area · 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.