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Lacombe, AB · Charitable organization

Burman University

Operation of a liberal arts university

C$7k
Granted FY2023
7
Grants FY2023
5
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$766
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LACOMBE DISTRICT MUSIC FESTIVALC$3,000
ALBERTA CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCHC$1,767
ONTARIO CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCHC$1,007
BRITISH COLUMBIA CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCHC$766
MARITIME CONVERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCHC$264
ADRA CANADAC$100
QUEBEC CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCHC$95
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.5M · 7 repeat orgsC$4k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +230% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2023, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

C$5.5M
C$4k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+230%
+26%

Still filing today

57%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$100 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • AC
    ALBERTA CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$5.4M
  • OC
    ONTARIO CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$35k · revenue -45%
  • BC
    British Columbia Conference of Seventh-Day Church
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$16k · revenue +598% · 96% of their budget

Funded once

  • MC
    MASKWACHEES CULTURAL COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$4k
  • CA
    Crawford Adventist Academy
    one grant, 2017 · C$400
  • TC
    THE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUE FOR THE BLIND
    one grant, 2021 · C$100 · revenue +24%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

03Your field
02the grantee network

7 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. 7 of the 12 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
7/7
Grantees still filing
4/7
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetONTARIO CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH — C$35,394 over 7y, 8.1% of budgetBritish Columbia Conference of Seventh-Day Church — C$16,167 over 7y, 96% of budgetLacombe & District Music Festival — C$13,000 over 3y, 40% of budgetMARITIME CONFERENCE OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH — C$10,645 over 6y, 40% of budgetTHE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUE FOR THE BLIND — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetADRA CANADA — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKVIEW ADVENTIST ACADEMY — C$33 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.

  • Who funds ONTARIO CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds British Columbia Conference of Seventh-Day Church ↗
  • Who funds Lacombe & District Music Festival ↗
  • Who funds MARITIME CONFERENCE OF THE SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTIST CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds THE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUE FOR THE BLIND ↗
  • Who funds ADRA CANADA ↗
  • Who funds PARKVIEW ADVENTIST ACADEMY ↗

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.

Seventh-Day Adventist…Christian Record Serv…Adra CanadaStrategic Charitable …CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Seventh-Day Adventist Church in CanadaON9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Seventh-Day Adventist Church in Canada · Christian Record Services Inc. · Adra Canada · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 12 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 2023-04-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under teaching institutions.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 106867609:2023-04-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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