Calgary, AB · Private foundation
Bonnie & Daryl Howard Charitable Foundation
Primary activity is funding for cancer research and treatment post-secondary education and other registered charities
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$6k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$37k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION | C$25,000 |
| THE GLASSCO FOUNDATION | C$12,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB CALGARY | C$4,000 |
| FIELD OF CROSSES | C$2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 88% of grant dollars (C$691k). The 12% that went abroad (C$90k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 12% of all-years giving (C$90k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +10% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
25 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down.
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 FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- ACALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION8× · 2017–2024 · C$320k · revenue +169%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY7× · 2017–2023 · C$90k · revenue +27%
- MUMCGILL UNIVERSITY2× · 2022–2023 · C$33k · revenue +12%
Funded once
- NANATIONAL ART CENTRE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · C$15k · revenue -9%
- MUMCGILL UNIVERSITYone grant, 2021 · C$15k
- MUMcGill Universityone grant, 2017 · C$12k
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.
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…
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…
The Calgary Foundation carried out its charitable purpose through the ongoing administration of its granting programs. While the Foundation provides grants to support charitable activity across the entire sector it has a particular focus…
The Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable foundation and is the legal body responsible for administering assets donated to be held in trust and other capital funds designated by the Board of Directors. Funds are provided to World…
1. Providing basic amenities and necessities to those whose lives have been affected by fire or other unexpected disasters. 2. Providing programs on the subject of firefighter health and safety to the public. 3. Providing publicly…
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…
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…
World Wildlife Fund Canada is a national registered charity formed to collect manage and disburse funds through suitable bodies or individuals for the conservation of fauna flora forests landscape water soils and other natural resources in…
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
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…
Awarded scholarships
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mustard Seed Society and the most unlike its peers is 489520 Alberta Ltd.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
22 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. 22 of the 39 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 ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY ↗
- Who funds THE GLASSCO FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCGILL UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB CALGARY ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ART CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds FIELD OF CROSSES ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds MINSTREL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY ↗
- Who funds CALGARY MILITARY RESOURCE ↗
- Who funds CANADA WILDLIFE ↗
- Who funds BETHANY CARE ↗
- Who funds Woods Homes ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE ↗
- Who funds BC Burn Fund ↗
- Who funds WAR AMPS ↗
- Who funds Calgary Poppy ↗
- Who funds SPCA ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS ↗
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 · Carthy Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund · Lily Street Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Atco Electric Epic · The Calgary Rotary Clubs Foundation
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.