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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

Bow River Basin Council Society

Watershed Planning and Advisory Council for the Bow river basin under Alberta's Water for Life Strategy - Stakeholder Engagement Committee - Science Committee - Legislation and Policy Committee - Watershed Stewardship Coordination Committee - Young Professional Committee - Governance Committee - Quarterly Forum - Annual Science…

C$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$7,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Trout Unlimited CanadaC$7,000
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$114k · 8 repeat orgsC$12k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against -7% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
1

Total granted

C$114k
C$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
-7%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k 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

  • AR
    Alberta Riparian Habitat Management Society
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$21k · revenue +40%
  • FO
    Friends of Fish Creek Park
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$17k · revenue +706%
  • AW
    Alberta Water Portal Society
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$15k · revenue +34%

Funded once

  • CF
    Centre fo Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue -7%

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
Water Matters Society of Alberta

Scholarly research and dissemination of information regarding water conservation and water policy.

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2
Alberta Council for Environmental Education

Work collaboratively to advance environmental education in Alberta. Move environmental education from the margins to mainstream by harnessing youth voice to guide decision makers increasing students environmental and climate literacy and…

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3
Canadian Water Research Society

Identifying indicators to measure ecosystem health in international waterways public outreach and education

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4
Athabasca Watershed Council

The athabasca watershed council is committed to demonstrate leadership and informed decision making in the athabasca watershed by bringing stakeholders and indigenous peoples together to promote foster respect and plan for an ecologocally…

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5
The Alberta Hunter Education Instructors Association

Conservation Education Programs throughout Alberta AHEIA works to conserve Alberta's wilderness through education and communication.

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6
Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation

Alberta institute for wildlife conservation is committed to the rescue rehabilitation and release of injured and orphaned wildlife. we provide expert advice and education that fosters an appreciation of wildlife. our current programs are -…

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7
Alberta Science Network: an Alberta Society

1) scientists & engineers-in-the-classroom 2) teacher science workshops 3) chemistry all around you

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8
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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9
Red Deer River Watershed Alliance Society

The red deer river watershed alliance is an inclusive collaborative partnership that promotes a healthy watershed to ensure a legacy of ecological integrity and economic sustainability.

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10
Watersheds Canada
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11
Bow River Basin Council Society

Watershed Planning and Advisory Council for the Bow river basin under Alberta's Water for Life Strategy - Stakeholder Engagement Committee - Science Committee - Legislation and Policy Committee - Watershed Stewardship Coordination…

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12
Alberta Conservation Association

The Alberta Conservation Association carried out five broad based programs during the fiscal year. These were the Fisheries Program Wildlife Program Information Education and Communications Program Land Management Program and Report A…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Riverwatch Institute of Alberta and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Calgary. 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAlberta Riparian Habitat Management Society — C$21,250 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of Fish Creek Park — C$17,000 over 3y, 7.8% of budgetAlberta Tomorrow Foundation — C$15,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetAlberta Water Portal Society — C$15,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetThe Governors of the University of Calgary — C$13,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetInside Education Society of Alberta — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAlberta Wilderness Association — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetRiverWatch Institute of Alberta — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetTrout Unlimited Canada — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentre fo Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology — C$5,000 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.

The Calgary FoundationThe Edmonton Communit…The Alberta Ecotrust …Td Friends of the Env…Alberta Conservation …United Way of Calgary…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…
The Calgary FoundationAB11.3× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Alberta Conservation Association · United Way of Calgary and Area · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto

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 10 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under public amenities.

Source object 864321526:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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