Qualicum Beach, BC · Private foundation
Bearspaw Benevolent Foundation
Children and youth services housing family and crisis counselling financial counselling and clothing banks street outreach
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k6 grants · C$210k
- C$50k–250k3 grants · C$200k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE DOORWAY | C$75,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB | C$75,000 |
| RESET SOCIETY OF CALGARY | C$50,000 |
| THE FURTHER EDUCATION | C$45,000 |
| RV SCHOOL (CHS BURSARY) | C$40,000 |
| TRELLIS (BGCC) | C$40,000 |
| ARBI | C$30,000 |
| DISCOVERY HOUSE | C$30,000 |
| MISKANAWAH (PATHWAYS) | C$25,000 |
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.
9 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- TDTHE DOORWAY7× · 2017–2024 · C$425k · revenue +208%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB8× · 2017–2024 · C$363k · revenue +244%
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CALGARY8× · 2017–2024 · C$357k · revenue +73%
Funded once
- D(DI (CALGARY DROP-IN CENTREone grant, 2017 · C$40k
- D(DI (DROP IN CENTRE)graduatedone grant, 2018 · C$30k · revenue +47%
- ECELEMENTS CALGARY MENTAL HEALTH CENTRE (CALGARY ASSOCIATION Oone grant, 2017 · C$7k · revenue +7%
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.
CASA Mental Health delivers holistic culturally safe wrap-around mental health services to Albertans aged 3 - 18 and their families. Major programs include Residential and Day Programs that consist of CASA House Preschool Day Programs…
Calgary Keys to Recovery Society provides housing and case management services to at risk individuals upon their exit from addictions treatment.
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…
The Exploitation Intervention & Transition (EXIT) program (housing life skills child-care follow-care-employement prep and support) N/A
Based in Edmonton Youth Empowerment & Support Services (YESS) provides 24/7 singe-point-of-access to immediate and low-barrier physical mental cultural and emotional health supports and safe places to stay for youth aged 15-21 who are…
Calgary Youth Justice Committees (CYJC): A restorative justice alternative for youth facing minor offenses. Volunteer-led committees work with young offenders and their families to design meaningful community-based consequences emphasizing…
The calgary dream centre's programs provide recovery-oriented training vocational training and housing opportunities to those experiencing addiction and homelessness. at the calgary dream centre people are given the resources and…
CUPS supports Calgarians impacted by poverty trauma and systemic marginalization with a unique integrated approach to care. We empower people to work holistically to create and achieve goals that support their well-being and build…
Developmental disabilities resource centre of calgary (ddrc) provides programs and services to support children and adults with developmental disabilities. in addition the ddrc provides resources to the general public to support and…
Supported living programs in group homes and apartment complexes for people with mental illnesses. Independent living support included bereavement counselling and group support support programs for families of those suffering from mental…
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…
G.r.i.t. works with children 2.8 to 6 years of age with multicomplex special needs that provides individualized early intervention programming to meet the needs of the child and family. the goal is for every child to have the opportunity…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Miskanawah Community Services Association and the most unlike its peers is The Rocky View School Division. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 12 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 THE DOORWAY ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB CALGARY ↗
- Who funds THE FURTHER EDUCATION SOCIETY OF ALBERTA ↗
- Who funds RV SCHOOL (CHS BURSARY) ↗
- Who funds ARBI ↗
- Who funds CALGARY READS ↗
- Who funds MISKANAWAH (PATHWAYS) ↗
- Who funds DISCOVERY HOUSE ↗
- Who funds DI (DROP IN CENTRE) ↗
- Who funds ELEMENTS CALGARY MENTAL HEALTH CENTRE (CALGARY ASSOCIATION O ↗
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 · Atco Electric Epic · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Ed Stelmach Community Foundation · Totem Charitable Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Private Giving 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.