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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Boardwalk Charitable Trust Fund

Grants to organizations that work with homelessness children and education

C$929k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$288k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$65k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$566k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$288k
C$52,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JESUS LOVES YOU SOCIETYC$287,817
ST. GEORGE'S GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCHC$145,000
SIMON HOUSE RECOVERY CENTREC$100,000
GREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF CANADAC$100,000
CALGARY FOOD BANKC$100,000
YWAM CANADAC$69,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$52,000
CALGARY POLICE YOUTH FOUNDATIONC$25,000
THE SSUBI FOUNDATIONC$10,000
RIVER VALLEY SCHOOL SOCIETYC$10,000
FOREST LAWN HIGH SCHOOLC$10,000
FANNY'S FUND - HOMEFRONTC$10,000
ZEBRA CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTREC$5,000
RAJ MANEK BUSINESS MENTORSHIP PROGRAMC$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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.4M · 12 repeat orgsC$894k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
24

Total granted

C$2.4M
C$315k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+12%
+36%

Still filing today

83%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 38% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$579k 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

  • JL
    JESUS LOVES YOU SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.7M · revenue +49% · 61% of their budget
  • UO
    University of Calgary
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$302k · revenue +27%
  • IF
    INN FROM THE COLD
    2× · 2020–2022 · C$75k · revenue +32%

Funded once

  • HH
    HORIZON HOUSING SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k · revenue +100%
  • A
    ACOPgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue +78%
  • CS
    Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$30k · revenue +205%

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 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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2
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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3
United Way of Calgary and Area

United way of calgary and area is a 100% local charity that brings together donors corporations agencies and government to solve complex issues and improve lives. we strategically invest in local agencies and collaboratives to create…

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4
Homespace Society

Homespace society is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to creatively apply expertise to increase and manage the number of affordable and specialized housing units in calgary

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5
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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6
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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7
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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8
Calgary Alpha House Society

Calgary alpha house society provides safe and caring environments for individuals whose lives are affected by alcohol and other drug dependencies. our continuum of programs helps connect these individuals with multiple levels of support…

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9
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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10
Calgary Dream Centre

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…

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11
Victory Outreach Foundation

Provides counseling education support training housing and employment opportunities to alleviate homelessness substance abuse and family abuse for person living in calgary and the surrounding areas. it provides residence for men and women…

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12
Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation

Charitable status was received on April 1 2018 and CAHF has been in a set up phase since that time. In this current fiscal year there has been activity related to preparing to deliver charitable activities which can be described as…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Young Women's Christian Association and the most unlike its peers is Simon House Residence 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

41 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. 41 of the 47 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
22/41
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 budgetJESUS LOVES YOU SOCIETY — C$1,691,677 over 8y, 61% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$302,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetST. GEORGE'S GREEK ORTHODOX CHURCH — C$145,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetSIMON HOUSE RECOVERY CENTRE — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetHORIZON HOUSING SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGREEK ORTHODOX ARCHDIOCESE OF CANADA — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetKids Can Free the Children - WE Charity — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYWAM CANADA — C$69,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetST. MARY'S UNIVERSITY — C$55,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetACOP — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCalgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALGARY POLICE YOUTH FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHopeShares Community Development Association — C$20,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetYWAM Canada — C$16,860 over 1y, 22% of budgetTHE SSUBI FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetJDRF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY FOUNDATION - CALGARY BLACK CHAMBERS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFANNY'S FUND - HOMEFRONT — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Calgary John Howard Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOREST LAWN HIGH SCHOOL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA of Calgary — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER VALLEY SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mustard Seed Foundation — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSt. Anthony's Parish — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetZEBRA CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF CALGARY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOR THE LOVE OF CHILDREN SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetMAKING CHANGES EMPLOYMENT ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA — C$2,640 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetNORTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrandon Flock Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDHILLION SCHOOL OF BUSINESS-UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA'S AVIATION HALL OF FAME — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALGARY HELLENIC COMMUNITY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetOUR LADY OF GOOD HELP MARONITE CATHOLIC CHURCH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPlan Canada — C$936 over 2y, 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.

The Calgary FoundationCenovus Employee Foun…United Way of Calgary…Calgary Flames Founda…Calgary Inter-Faith F…Calgary Shaw Charity …The Burns Memorial Fu…Atco Electric EpicCarthy FoundationKids Up Front Foundat…Abc Benefits Corporat…Atco Gas Employees' C…
The Calgary FoundationAB17.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · Atco Electric Epic · Carthy Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund

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 47 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 protective health care.

Source object 867900698:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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