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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Berkhold Family Foundation

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C$628k
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$18k
  • C$10k–50k24 grants · C$560k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$25,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALGARY FOOD BANKC$50,000
SALVATION ARMYC$40,000
HOSPICE CALGARY SOCIETYC$40,000
CANADIAN RED CROSS - JASPERC$40,000
ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATIONC$35,000
HERITAGE PARK SOCIETYC$30,000
SSUBI FOUNDATIONC$30,000
CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETYC$30,000
STARS FOUNDATIONC$30,000
INN FROM THE COLDC$30,000
FEAR IS NOT LOVEC$30,000
L'ARCHE CALGARYC$25,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTAC$25,000
HULL CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICESC$25,000
COCHRANE HUMANE SOCIETYC$20,000
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.6M · 33 repeat orgsC$215k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
16

Total granted

C$2.6M
C$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k 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

  • AC
    Alberta Cancer Foundation
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$328k · revenue +169%
  • HF
    Homes For Heroes Foundation
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$173k · revenue +544%
  • CF
    CALGARY FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$135k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • DW
    DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue -4%
  • CH
    COCHRANE HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$20k
  • CH
    CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$15k

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
Calgary Health Foundation

Provide support for medical services long term care medical research and education by granting to alberta health services - calgary zone university of calgary medical school and other registered charities providing support of health care…

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2
Calgary Homeless Foundation

Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness. Providing grants to qualified donees and other community organizations to assist individuals experiencing homelessness…

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3
Calgary Arts Foundation

Calgary arts foundation was created to generate financial support for the calgary arts sector. the foundation is focused on the arts creative industries and cultural sector to strengthen existing programs that support organizations artists…

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4
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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5
Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation

The alberta children's hospital foundation raises funds for excellence in child health research and family centred care. funding is provided to alberta health services and university of calgary for advanced pediatric research specialized…

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6
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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7
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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8
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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9
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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10
Calgary Public Library Foundation

The Calgary Public Library Foundation's sole purpose is to raise funds for the Calgary Public Library to enhance programs and services provided to Calgarians.

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11
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment…

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12
Community Foundation of Central Alberta

The foundation is a community catalyst committed to growing a legacy which strengthens the quality of life in red deer and central alberta. activities in support of their mission include: working with donors to enable them to meet their…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Calgary and Area and the most unlike its peers is Turtle Valley Donkey Refuge Society. 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

47 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. 47 of the 50 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
46/47
Grantees still filing
35/47
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 budgetAlberta Cancer Foundation — C$328,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHomes For Heroes Foundation — C$172,500 over 6y, 12% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$135,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$130,000 over 6y, 5.6% of budgetL'ARCHE CALGARY — C$125,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHULL CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES — C$120,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY — C$115,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetRED CRODD - UKRAINE — C$115,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFEAR IS NOT LOVE — C$108,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD — C$105,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetSSUBI FOUNDATION — C$101,000 over 7y, 9.7% of budgetHOSPICE CALGARY SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetHERITAGE PARK SOCIETY — C$96,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTARS FOUNDATION — C$85,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPRAIRIE ROSE SCHOOL DIVISION NO 8 — C$80,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way of Calgary and Area — C$75,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWELLSPRING CALGARY — C$67,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetFriends of Medalta — C$65,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCOCHRANE HUMANE SOCIETY — C$62,500 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$55,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANCH OUT NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 6y, 2.5% of budgetCALGARY ROGERS CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION (NA'AMAT) — C$45,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetTURTLE VALLEY DONKEY REFUGE — C$45,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFIELD OF CROSSES — C$42,080 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetWestern Sky Land Trust — C$35,000 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$33,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGLENBOW — C$32,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY FOUNDATION — C$29,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPRAIRIE GLEANERS (MEDICINE HAT) — C$25,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetCalgary Philharmonic Foundation — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTURTLE VALLEY DONKEY REFUGE — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetTHE PREP PROGRAM — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBig Brothers & Big Sisters of Calgary — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBethany Care Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALBERTA THEATER PROJECTS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRonald MacDonald House Southern Alberta — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY PHILHARMONIC FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CALGARY — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMontreal Economic Institute — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSAANICH PENINSULA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetChildren's Wish Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI Can For Kids Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetProspect Human Services Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

  • Who funds Alberta Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Homes For Heroes Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
  • Who funds L'ARCHE CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds HULL CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds RED CRODD - UKRAINE ↗
  • Who funds FEAR IS NOT LOVE ↗
  • Who funds INN FROM THE COLD ↗
  • Who funds SSUBI FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOSPICE CALGARY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HERITAGE PARK SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds STARS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE ROSE SCHOOL DIVISION NO 8 ↗
  • Who funds United Way of Calgary and Area ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds Friends of Medalta ↗
  • Who funds COCHRANE HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds University of Calgary ↗
  • Who funds DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS ↗
  • Who funds BRANCH OUT NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY ROGERS CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION (NA'AMAT) ↗
  • Who funds TURTLE VALLEY DONKEY REFUGE ↗
  • Who funds FIELD OF CROSSES ↗
  • Who funds Western Sky Land Trust ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GLENBOW ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF SOUTHEASTERN ALBERTA ↗
  • Who funds PRAIRIE GLEANERS (MEDICINE HAT) ↗
  • Who funds Calgary Philharmonic Foundation ↗
  • Who funds TURTLE VALLEY DONKEY REFUGE ↗
  • Who funds THE PREP PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds Resolve Calgary ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Calgary ↗
  • Who funds Bethany 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.

Calgary Flames Founda…The Calgary FoundationCarthy FoundationViewpoint FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Cenovus Employee Foun…Calgary Shaw Charity …Nickle Family Foundat…Harry and Martha Cohe…The Rotary Club of Ca…Atco Electric EpicCanada Gives
Calgary Flames FoundationAB17.5× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Flames Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation · The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund · Atco Electric Epic · Canada Gives

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 50 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 875151821:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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