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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Berkshire Hathaway Energy Canada Foundation

Donations made to qualified donees during 2023.

C$30k
Granted FY2022
2
Grants FY2022
2
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$20,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$6k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION OF CANADAC$20,000
ENOCH CREE NATIONC$10,000
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.

63%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$521k · 3 repeat orgsC$300k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

C$521k
C$290k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
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

  • 4F
    4-H Foundation of Alberta
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$435k · revenue +65%
  • HA
    HORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION OF CANADA
    4× · 2018–2022 · C$80k · revenue +275%
  • LC
    Lethbridge College
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$6k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • CS
    Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$225k · revenue +104%
  • HC
    Hockey Canada
    one grant, 2017 · C$35k · revenue +3%
  • DF
    David Foster Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k · revenue +21%

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
Alberta Golf Association Foundation

Provides scholarships to albertans for post-secondary education and that may also fund research projects relating to golf and golf facilities.

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2
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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3
The Governors of the University of Calgary

The University of Calgary had 37 400 full time and part time students in the 2023/2024 fiscal year from over 100 countries registered in the following 15 faculties: Art Cummung School of Medicine Environmental Design Graduate Studies…

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4
The Northern Alberta Institute of Technology Foundation

The NAIT Foundation raises funds to support the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Funds are used for: -scholarships and bursaries granted to NAIT students -operational costs capital equipment needs in support of NAIT's educational…

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5
Hockey Alberta Foundation

The hockey alberta foundation supports numerous charities/qualified donees to assist in helping kids families and communities access equipment programs mentorship and leadership development with the goal of providing opportunities for kids…

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6
J.H. Holloway Scholarship Foundation

Geomatics scholarships in alberta

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7
Lethbridge Community College Foundation
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8
Red Deer Public School District Foundation

Advancement of education

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9
The Red Deer Public Schools Scholarship Trust
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10
Friends of the University of Alberta

Fund Student Scholarships and Awards Sponsor public lectures featuring University Speakers Financially support university programs to engage the broader community

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11
Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

Post secondary education and training in technology applied arts and trades.

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12
Aset Educational and Scholarship Foundation

The primary objective of the foundation is to assist in the improvement of technology education in alberta and the territories by creating a fund which may be used to provide bursaries to students enrolled in approved applied science…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is 4-H Alberta and the most unlike its peers is Bow Valley College. 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

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 11 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budget4-H Foundation of Alberta — C$435,000 over 3y, 6.4% of budgetCalgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation — C$225,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetHORATIO ALGER ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHockey Canada — C$35,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDavid Foster Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Alberta — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLethbridge College — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBow Valley College — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRed Deer College — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SOUTH EASTERN ALBERTA — C$650 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Abc Benefits Corporat…The Calgary FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadahelps Canadon
Rbc Foundation/Rbc FondationON8.5× affinity8 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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.

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 11 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 2022-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2023) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 800066722:2022-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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