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Lethbridge, AB · Private foundation

Bernhard Melitz Foundation

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C$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$26k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$42k
C$6,336
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$2.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
A BETTER WORLD CANADAC$20,000
CUSOC$12,000
CODEC$10,000
CHILDREN BELIEVEC$6,336
UNICEFC$5,000
BROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY'S STREET KIDS SOCIETYC$5,000
INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATIVE FUND OF CANADAC$5,000
AMNESTY INTERNATIONALC$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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$472k · 18 repeat orgsC$97k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +47% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
17

Total granted

C$472k
C$92k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+1%

Still filing today

94%
59%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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

  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CONSERVATIVE FUND OF CANADA
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$49k · revenue +76%
  • C
    CODE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$41k · revenue +98%
  • U
    UNICEF
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$31k · revenue +45%

Funded once

  • G
    GREENPEACE
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k
  • LC
    LIFEWATER CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k
  • OI
    OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -60%

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.

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Cooperation Canada - Coopération Canada

Cooperation Canada is Canada's national association of international development and humanitarian organizations. Cooperation Canada brings together and advocates for effective Canadian international development assistance by convening…

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2
World Vision Canada-Vision Mondiale Canada

World Vision Canada carries out programs in 55 countries which are funded through ongoing private and public funding and focuses on: • Livelihoods: including food environment & climate change and economic empowerment; • Health: including…

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3
Save the Children Canada/Aide À L'enfance Canada

Save the Children Canada implemented programs focused on empowering girls and boys to fulfill their rights ensuring every last child has an equal opportunity to survive learn and be protected. This work included programs in health…

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4
Clean Water International Canada Society

We believe every child has the right to clean water clean water international canada is dedicated to advancing wtaer sanitaion and hygiene (wash) through sustainable community-led programs. our work directly contributes to several united…

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5
Fh Canada

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…

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6
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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7
War Child Canada

The charity War Child Canada helps families and communities in Afghanistan the Democratic Republic of Congo South Sudan Sudan Uganda and Yemen through education youth and women’s livelihoods support and other vital services. The charity…

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8
Oxfam Canada

Oxfam canada this year spanned 21 countries focusing on various humanitarian and development initiatives. in jamaica we address gender-based violence (gbv) through social norm changes and advocacy. in nicaragua we empower civil society for…

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9
Canadian Crossroads International/Carrefour Canadien International

Our vision is one world where poverty is eliminated equality prevails and the rights of women and girls are fulfilled. to achieve this vision crossroads international works in partnership with local organizations in some of th poorest…

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10
Children International Canada

Children international canada carries out its charitable activities for the purpose of breaking generational poverty for the children they serve. this is done by delivering high-impact programs in four crucial areas: health education…

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11
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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12
SeedChange / Sème l'avenir

Seedchange is a leading international development organization that promotes family farms strong rural communities and healthy ecosystems around the world. with engaged canadians and partners in africa asia and latin america we help…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Care Canada and the most unlike its peers is Camp Carmangay. 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

29 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. 29 of the 36 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/29
Grantees still filing
17/29
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 budgetA BETTER WORLD CANADA — C$98,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCUSO — C$60,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CONSERVATIVE FUND OF CANADA — C$49,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCHILDREN BELIEVE — C$48,008 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCODE — C$40,900 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNICEF — C$31,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL — C$28,000 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetLethbridge Youth Fondation — C$23,500 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetOne Girl Can — C$18,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetMOMENTUM COUNSELING — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRECOVERY ACRES SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCARE CANADA — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetInterfaith Food Bank Helping Society of Lethbridge — C$8,800 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN FEED THE CHILDREN — C$8,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALLY GLOBAL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY'S STREET KIDS SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDalit freedom Network Canada — C$4,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetFINCA — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLETHBRIDGE INTERFAITH FOOD BANK — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetthe Salvation Army — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetALBERTA COUNCIL OF WOMEN'S SHELTER — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREENPEACE — C$3,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCAREGIVERS ALBERTA — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Carmangay — C$2,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetMercy Ships Canada — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA Lethbridge and District — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWood's Homes Foundation — C$1,000 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.

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.

Nicola Wealth Private…United Way of the Alb…Abundance CanadaThe Calgary FoundationLethbridge Community …Atco Gas Employees' C…Atco Electric EpicThe Edmonton Communit…Telus Employees Chari…United Way of Calgary…United Way of ReginaLink Charity Canada I…
Nicola Wealth Private Giving FoundationBC11.7× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Abundance Canada · The Calgary Foundation · Lethbridge Community Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Atco Electric Epic · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · United Way of Calgary and Area · United Way of Regina · Link Charity Canada Inc

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 36 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 847000205:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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