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High Prairie, AB · Private foundation

Buchanan Family Foundation

The charity provides funding to other registered charities.

C$535k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$103k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$132k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$403k
C$44,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STARSC$103,000
BIG LAKES COUNTYC$100,000
TOWN OF HIGH PRAIRIEC$100,000
VETERANS ASSOCIATION FOOD BANKC$50,000
NORTHWESTERN ALBERTA FOUNDATIONC$50,000
SORRENTINO'S COMPASSION HOUSEC$44,000
COVENANT FOUNDATIONC$27,646
ST. MARK'S ANGLICAN CHURCHC$20,000
BASICALLY BABIESC$20,000
HP CHILDREN'S RESOURCE COUNCILC$10,000
MAKE A WISHC$10,000
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.8M · 11 repeat orgsC$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
17

Total granted

C$1.8M
C$1.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+14%

Still filing today

91%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$242k 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

  • S
    STARS
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$203k · revenue +29%
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWESTERN ALBERTA
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$200k · revenue +354%
  • TM
    THE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · C$150k · revenue +57%

Funded once

  • HP
    HIGH PRAIRIE HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY SOCIETY
    one grant, 2018 · C$240k · revenue -89% · 65% of their budget
  • MN
    MAKE-A-WISH NORTHERN ALBERTA
    one grant, 2019 · C$200k · revenue 0%
  • HA
    HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA
    one grant, 2019 · C$115k · revenue +23%

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
Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation

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…

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2
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

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…

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3
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

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

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4
Alberta Cancer Foundation

The alberta cancer foundation provides funds for cancer research the prevention detection education and diagnosis of cancer and for the treatment and care of cancer patients within alberta.

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5
Make-a-Wish Foundation of Southern Alberta

Granting wishes for children with critical illnesses. Wishes are granted on a case-by-case basis.

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6
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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7
Red Deer Regional Health Foundation

Red deer regional health foundation (rdrhf) raises and disburses funds for program services and the purchase of medical equipment for the red deer regional hospital centre (rdrhc) and other facilities in alberta health services (ahs)…

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8
Northern Lights Regional Health Foundation

Raise funds in support of Alberta Health Services.

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9
The Alberta Lung Foundation
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10
Northwest Health Foundation

Northwest Health Foundation raises revenue to donate to Alberta Health Services to support operating and capital programs in the northwest area of Alberta

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11
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Northern Alberta, an Alberta Society

Ronald McDonald House Charities Alberta supports families seeking vital medical treatment for their seriously ill or injured child. Our warm, compassionate Houses provide a home-away-from home for families who need to travel for medical…

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12
Jim Pattison Children's Hospital Foundation Inc.

The Foundation's purpose is to raise funds for the enhancement of children's and maternal healthcare in Saskatchewan and the Jim Pattison Children's Hospital. The Foundation is a proud member of Canada's Children's Hospital Foundation…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwestern Alberta Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St. Mark's Church. 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

26 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. 26 of the 33 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/26
Grantees still filing
16/26
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 budgetHIGH PRAIRIE HEALTH CARE AUXILIARY SOCIETY — C$240,000 over 1y, 65% of budgetSTARS — C$203,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF NORTHWESTERN ALBERTA — C$200,000 over 2y, 22% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH NORTHERN ALBERTA — C$200,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RAINBOW SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$150,000 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetZEBRA CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRE — C$150,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetST.MARKS ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$145,000 over 4y, 42% of budgetSTARS - SHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE — C$143,542 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$114,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE A WISH — C$110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHEART RIVER HOUSING — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN ALBERTA AND THE NORTHWEST TER — C$50,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetVETERANS ASSOCIATION FOOD BANK — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSORRENTINO'S COMPASSION HOUSE — C$44,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetIN ASSOCIATION OF HIGH PRAIRIE & DISTRICT CHILDREN'S RESOURC — C$43,420 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetBASICALLY BABIES — C$35,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetHIGH PRAIRIE & DISTRICT FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetCOVENANT FOUNDATION — C$27,646 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA — C$22,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetIN THE WOODS ANIMAL RESCUE — C$15,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetSTOLLERY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGORDON & DIANE BUCHANAN FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Atco Electric EpicAbc Benefits Corporat…The Edmonton Communit…Edmonton Oilers Commu…Atco Gas Employees' C…United Way of the Alb…Alberta Blue Cross He…Northwestern Alberta …Frank J. Flaman Found…The Muttart FoundationHigh Prairie United C…St Andrews' United Ch…
Atco Electric EpicAB14.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atco Electric Epic · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue · Northwestern Alberta Foundation · Frank J. Flaman Foundation · The Muttart Foundation · High Prairie United Church · St Andrews' United Church

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 33 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 801330762:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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