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Edmonton, AB · Private foundation

Butler Family Foundation

The foundation grants money to local community charities that are qualified donees.

C$501k
Granted FY2023
78
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 78 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k53 grants · C$113k
  • C$10k–50k24 grants · C$338k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$2,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$5.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
UNITED WAYC$25,000
U OF AC$20,000
YMCAC$20,000
FREE PLAY FOR KIDSC$20,000
HUMANE YOUTH SOCIETYC$20,000
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBC$20,000
YOU CAN YOUTHC$20,000
YESSC$20,000
APPLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONC$15,000
FOCASC$13,000
EDMONTON CATHOLIC SCHOOLSC$12,000
PARENTS EMPOWERING PARENTSC$12,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$11,000
TOOLS FOR SCHOOLSC$10,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 86% of grant dollars (C$2.0M). The 14% that went abroad (C$330k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 14% of all-years giving (C$330k)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.8M · 78 repeat orgsC$547k 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 +22% for the ones you funded once.

78 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2023, 35 since wound down; 23 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

78
80

Total granted

C$1.8M
C$414k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+22%

Still filing today

83%
38%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$134k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’23
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

  • UO
    U OF A HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$305k · revenue +25%
  • UW
    UNITED WAY
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$199k · revenue +25%
  • Y
    YWCA
    4× · 2018–2023 · C$144k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • Y
    YESS
    one grant, 2020 · C$20k
  • RA
    ROYAL ALEX HOSPITAL FOUNDAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k · revenue +28%
  • JA
    JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k

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

04Your 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 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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2
Autism Society Alberta

Education and peer support - assisting families that are experiencing autism in their family unit. Matching more experienced members to mentor new members. Improving understanding of autism throughout the province of Alberta. Provide…

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3
Children's Autism Services of Edmonton

Children's autism services of edmonton is an organization of excellence in the area of support services for children with autism and other developmental disorders. we have dedicated dynamic and qualified professionals providing family…

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4
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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5
Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association

The charity supports children who are living with disabilities and specialized needs in our communities. Through education advocacy direct support and community outreach we support children who are facing physical developmental emotional…

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6
Casa Mental Health

CASA Mental Health delivers holistic culturally safe wrap-around mental health services to Albertans aged 3 - 18 and their families. Major programs include Residential and Day Programs that consist of CASA House Preschool Day Programs…

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7
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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8
Beam Foundation

BEAM Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of kids & youth in Calgary Alberta. Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable wellness programs to children and youth who are…

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9
Alberta Caregivers Association

Alberta Caregivers Association (o/a Caregivers Alberta) is an organization of caregivers for caregivers. The mission is to empower caregivers and promote their wellbeing. They do so by providing group and one-on-one supports increasing…

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10
Hiv Network of Edmonton Society

Hiv edmonton has a vision of zero: zero new hiv infections zero stigma and discrimination and zero aids related deaths. hiv edmonton is dedicated to making life better for people living with or affected by hiv and aids. we do this by…

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11
Change Health Alberta

Runs a camp which aims to reconnect famililes and children with healthy active lifestyles through a series of educational programming in alberta

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12
Aspire Child Development Centre

Aspire child development centre an alberta society provides education training and support to children with disabilities their families and other professional service providers. ongoing programs include transdisciplinary assessment and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edmonton City Centre Church Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Casa Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

114 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. 114 of the 181 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)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
112/114
Grantees still filing
83/114
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 budgetU OF A HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$305,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$199,280 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA — C$144,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetU OF A — C$99,500 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetBGBBBS of Edmonton — C$90,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetEDM PUBLIC SCHOOLS — C$65,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Empowerment — C$64,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetEDMONTON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS — C$52,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetAPPLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCASA FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetPILGRIM'S HOSPICE — C$30,819 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetHUMANE YOUTH SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetJERRY FORBES CENTER FOR CO — C$29,999 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetL'ARCHE — C$29,760 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPARENTS EMPOWERING PARENTS — C$28,480 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetNORQUEST COLLEGE — C$24,999 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE — C$24,999 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCCI LEX — C$24,440 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetYMCA — C$23,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetYOU CAN YOUTH — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSPORT CENTRAL — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetROYAL ALEX HOSPITAL FOUNDA — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFREE PLAY FOR KIDS — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetABC Headstart — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH PHILANTHROPY INITIAT — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetYONA - EDMONTON SYMPHONY — C$19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetADAPTABILITIES — C$17,176 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetEDM MENNONITE CENTRE — C$16,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — C$16,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetBOYLE STREET SERVICE — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNINA HAGGARTY — C$14,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS ON TRACK — C$12,400 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetKARA DONATION — C$12,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetDream Centre — C$11,200 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetLITTLE WARRIORS — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCentre for Autism — C$10,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDICKINSFIELD AMITY HOUSE — C$10,400 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMOMENTUM WALKIN COUNCELING — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCENTER FOR FAMILY LITERACY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAB MENTAL HEALTH FOUND — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEDMONTON SENIORS COUNCIL — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTODAY CENTER — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetDeaf & Hear Alberta — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetJasper Place Wellness — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetNAIT — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTOOLS FOR SCHOOLS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% 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 U OF A HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds YWCA ↗
  • Who funds U OF A ↗
  • Who funds BGBBBS of Edmonton ↗
  • Who funds EDM PUBLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds Youth Empowerment ↗
  • Who funds EDMONTON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS ↗
  • Who funds APPLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CASA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PILGRIM'S HOSPICE ↗
  • Who funds HUMANE YOUTH SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds JERRY FORBES CENTER FOR CO ↗
  • Who funds L'ARCHE ↗
  • Who funds PARENTS EMPOWERING PARENTS ↗
  • Who funds NORQUEST COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds TELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds CCI LEX ↗
  • Who funds YMCA ↗
  • Who funds YOU CAN YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds SPORT CENTRAL ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL ALEX HOSPITAL FOUNDA ↗
  • Who funds FREE PLAY FOR KIDS ↗
  • Who funds ABC Headstart ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH PHILANTHROPY INITIAT ↗
  • Who funds YONA - EDMONTON SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds ADAPTABILITIES ↗
  • Who funds EDM MENNONITE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds BOYLE STREET SERVICE ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN IN NEED ↗
  • Who funds NINA HAGGARTY ↗

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.

Edmonton Oilers Commu…The Stollery Charitab…Allard Foundation Ltd.The Edmonton Communit…Atco Electric EpicThe Edmonton Civic Em…Alberta Blue Cross He…Abc Benefits Corporat…Atco Gas Employees' C…Melton FoundationEdmonton Realtors' Ch…United Way of the Alb…
Edmonton Oilers Community FoundationAB47.1× affinity51 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · The Stollery Charitable Foundation · Allard Foundation Ltd. · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Atco Electric Epic · The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund · Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Melton Foundation · Edmonton Realtors' Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region

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 181 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

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 856794557:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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