Calgary, AB · Public foundation
Big Hearted Mavericks Foundation
The BIG HEARTED MAVERICKS FOUNDATION continued to make donations to organizations helping calgary and area children and their families.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under C$10k3 grants · C$17k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$56k
- C$50k–250k5 grants · C$350k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COMMUNITY KITCHEN | C$111,580 |
| KIDS CANCER CARE | C$76,969 |
| KIDSPORT CALGARY & AREA | C$61,580 |
| THE PREP PROGRAM | C$50,000 |
| BETWEEN FRIENDS | C$50,000 |
| ALBERTA ADOLESCENT RECOVERY CENTRE AARC | C$36,000 |
| COMMUNITY LINKS SOCIETY | C$20,000 |
| ROWAN HOUSE SOCIETY | C$7,500 |
| FOOD FOR THOUGHT | C$7,500 |
| LITTLE WARRIORS | C$2,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.
9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).
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 FY2023, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$135k 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
- CKCOMMUNITY KITCHEN5× · 2017–2023 · C$335k · revenue +133%
- TBTHE BETWEEN FIENDS CLUB5× · 2017–2023 · C$280k · revenue +5%
- TPTHE PREP PROGRAM4× · 2019–2023 · C$185k · revenue +85%
Funded once
- HFHull Family Servicesgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$80k · revenue +36%
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2017 · C$40k
- PPPREP programone grant, 2017 · C$25k
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.
Calgary family therapy centre provides a mental health treatment program for children and their families who are experiencing difficulties. it is a clinical outpatient therapy program that offers specialized services in family therapy. the…
Early intervention working with high risk preschool children.. working with high risk children and their families
The Kids with Cancer Society offers programming to assist families in the following areas: Support - Provides the necessary tools to help families cope for the demands of the treatment and minimize family disruption and related stress.…
Services and supports for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their families including: diagnostic and assessment services residential treatment toddler program early intervention and preschool programming consultation services…
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…
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…
Aspire child development centre an alberta society provides education training and support to children with disabilities their families and other professional service providers. ongoing programs include transdisciplinary assessment and…
Children's autism services of edmonton is an organization of excellence in the area of support services for children with autism and other developmental disorders. we have dedicated dynamic and qualified professionals providing family…
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…
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…
Early intervention programs for all yukon children particularily those with special needs from birth to school age. this includes psychological developmental speech occupational and physio therapies. we provide assessment and treatment of…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Pacekids Society for Children With Special Needs and the most unlike its peers is High River Food for Thought Ltd.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 27 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 COMMUNITY KITCHEN ↗
- Who funds THE BETWEEN FIENDS CLUB ↗
- Who funds THE PREP PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds KIDS CANCER CARE ↗
- Who funds CALGARY FLAMES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Hull Family Services ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA ADOLESCENT RECOVERY CENTRE AARC ↗
- Who funds PACE KIDS ↗
- Who funds COMMUNITY LINKS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds WILL FOR RIDING FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds FOOD FOR THOUGHT ↗
- Who funds Calgary Dolphins Swim Club ↗
- Who funds LITTLE WARRIORS ↗
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 · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund · Calgary Flames Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Atco Electric Epic · Children's Hospital Aid Society · Olympia Charitable Foundation · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division
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.