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Strathmore, AB · Private foundation

B. Stefanich Foundation

We are a foundation that is going to spend it's income each year by giving it to other registered charities that do work with children animals and the homeless.

C$75k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$40k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$35k
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$348k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAPPY CAT SANCTUARY SOCIETY OF ALBERTAC$20,000
THE ALICE SANCTUARYC$15,000
CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATIONC$5,000
SKIPPING STONEC$5,000
CALGARY WILDLIFEC$5,000
MOUNTAIN VIEW EMERGENCY SHELTERC$5,000
THE BEAGLE ALLIANCEC$5,000
ANIMAL JUSTICE CANADAC$5,000
LEFTOVERSC$5,000
THE PARSONS ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
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.

12%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$35k · 3 repeat orgsC$257k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +134% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
27

Total granted

C$35k
C$187k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+134%
+33%

Still filing today

100%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$70k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TN
    THE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA
    2× · 2021–2023 · C$15k · revenue +44%
  • BB
    BROWN BAGGING FOR KIDS
    2× · 2019–2023 · C$13k · revenue +134%
  • CW
    CALGARY WILDLIFE
    2× · 2019–2024 · C$8k · revenue +137%

Funded once

  • DW
    DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue -4%
  • CU
    CANADA UKRAINE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue -80%
  • PF
    PARACHUTES FOR PETSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue +126%

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
Animal Rescue Foundation (Arf) of Alberta

Rescue homeless lost stray or abandoned dogs and cats on request from rural areas and communities with limited resources in order to prevent and alleviate animal suffering and reduce pet overpopulation; provide dogs and cats with food…

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2
Calgary Animal Rescue Society

Rescue abused and abandoned animals provide verterinary care as needed and find loving homes for these animals. provide spay/neuter clinic in remote locations.

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3
Meow Foundation for the Adoption of Abandoned Cats

We rescue and facilitate the adoption of stray and abandoned cats into new loving permanent forever homes. MEOW Foundation also offers a Spay Neuter Assistance Program subsidizing low income families needing to spay/neuter their cats Cat…

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4
Alberta Animal Rescue Crew Society

Rescue rehabilitate & rehome; Spay/Neuter Assistance (SNAP); Emergency Shelter; Humane Education/Outreach; Trap/Neuter/Return (TNR); Disaster Response; Pet Food Assistance Compassionate Care

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5
Alberta Helping Animals Society

Support successful and enduring human-animal bonds between companion animals and people with low income disabilities and unfortunate circumstances through providing advice advocacy and access to veterinary care and other services.

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6
Central Alberta Humane Society (for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)

Operates a shelter for companion animals including: adoption surrender rescue rehabilitation pet therapy humane education emergency boarding low income spay/neuter pet food bank

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7
The Bow Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The Bow Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BVSPCA) operates a No-kill No-cage animal adoption facility in Canmore Alberta. The BVSPCA serves the Bow Valley and surrounding areas including Banff Canmore Kananaskis Lake…

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8
Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue Foundation

Our primary program involves rescuing homeless abandoned freezing starving dogs and puppies and to a few amount cats and kittens in Alberta as well as Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Rescued animals are matched in our Foster Program a highly…

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9
Calgary Humane Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The mission of the Society is to Protect Animals. Support People. Create A More Humane World. The Society offers services to the Calgary and surrounding areas in the sheltering and care of animals adoptions protection and investigation and…

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10
Fostering Hope Animal Rescue Foundation

To promote the welfare of animals for the benefit of the public by spaying or neutering feral or stray animals and rehabilitating them to be re-homed or returning them to their community and reducing the unwanted population (e.g. barn…

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11
Feral Cat Network Foundation of Alberta

Provide support communities through providing food veterinary care and shelter to colony cats from tnr programs; rehabilitate sick and injured cats and put up for adoption to homes or barn buddy program if cannot be released to tnr…

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12
Alberta Pound and Rescue Centres

To return lost pets to their owners and give homeless animals a new forever home.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society and the most unlike its peers is The Beagle Alliance. 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

35 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. 35 of the 39 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
22/35
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 budgetHAPPY CAT SANCTUARY SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$20,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARACHUTES FOR PETS — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR KIDS — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY ROMAN CATHOLIC SEPRATE SCHOOL DIVISION BISHOP MCNAL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS ASSOCIATION FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE MISSION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM CALGARY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetRESET SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWHEELCHAIR SPORTS ALBERTA — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCALGARY WILDLIFE — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CALGARY BRIDGE FOUNDATION FOR YOUTHS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BEAGLE ALLIANCE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN VIEW EMERGENCY SHELTER — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetALBERTA BIRDS OF PREY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetANIMAL JUSTICE CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetSKIPPING STONE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE PARSONS ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 9.6% of budgetLEFTOVERS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBARRHEAD ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN PROGRAM OF CALGARY — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSYNERGY CHESTERMERE — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION SMILE — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRABBITATS RESCUE SOCIETY — C$4,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHARVEST HEALING CENTRE CHURCH — C$2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CALGARY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALEX COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI CAN FOR KIDS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

The Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Atco Electric EpicCenovus Employee Foun…The Eric S. Margolis …Viewpoint FoundationPlace2Give FoundationCarthy FoundationUnited Way of the Alb…The Calgary Roman Cat…Kids Up Front Foundat…Calgary Flames Founda…
The Calgary FoundationAB16.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Electric Epic · Cenovus Employee Foundation · The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. Margolis · Viewpoint Foundation · Place2Give Foundation · Carthy Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · 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 39 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 775713936:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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