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Canmore, AB · Private foundation

Byram Family Foundation

Ongoing donations to qualified donees donations to organizations providing family support services supporting amateur athletics and educational initiativea

C$230k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$28k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$28k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$203k
C$20,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AUNT LEAH'S PLACEC$27,500
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATIONC$27,500
NORTH OKANAGAN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETYC$27,500
ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETYC$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$20,000
DRAYTON VALLEY FOOD BANKC$20,000
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATIONC$20,000
OKANAGAN LEARNING FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CALGARY FOOD BANKC$10,000
DISCOVERYHOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETYC$7,500
WELCOME HALL MISSIONC$7,500
THE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANKC$7,500
WILD ROSE SCHOOL DIVISIONC$5,000
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$618k · 17 repeat orgsC$50k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

C$618k
C$28k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+329%

Still filing today

88%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$23k 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

  • NO
    NORTH OKANAGAN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$89k · revenue +61%
  • CM
    CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$62k · revenue +122%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$50k · revenue +11%

Funded once

  • AS
    ALBERTA SPORT CONNECTION
    one grant, 2019 · C$8k
  • CC
    CANADIAN CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH AND SPORTgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$6k · revenue +537%
  • PF
    PARKS FOUNDATION CALGARY QUALIFIES UNDER SECTION 118.1(1)(D)
    one grant, 2018 · C$4k

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
British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch

The British Columbia Mental Health Society Branch (BCMHS) provides a diverse range of provincial specialized one-of-a-kind services for adults across the province; as well as provincial leadership for system-wide planning, research and…

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2
Y.E.S.S.: Youth Emergency Shelter Society of Edmonton

Based in Edmonton Youth Empowerment & Support Services (YESS) provides 24/7 singe-point-of-access to immediate and low-barrier physical mental cultural and emotional health supports and safe places to stay for youth aged 15-21 who are…

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3
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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4
Canadian Mental Health Association Vancouver-Fraser Branch

1) mental health program development & delivery-we help build mental health skills and resilience for individuals. this includes parent support employment services crisis lines youth programs and support groups. 2) mental health education…

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5
Canadian Mental Health Association B.C. Division

CMHA BC Division strives to develop and provide quality services and supports for those living with mental illness and/or addiction and promote mental health for all British Columbians. As a provincial organization we (a) deliver mental…

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6
Vancouver Coastal Health Authority

The role of the vcha is to promote and provide for the physical mental and social well-being of people who live in the vancouver coastal region and through referral from outside the region.

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7
Calgary Drop-in & Rehab Centre Society

The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre provides access to a spectrum of care that supports adults at risk of homelessness to the most independent living possible - including various emergency shelter programs and services and affordable and…

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8
Calgary Keys to Recovery Society

Calgary Keys to Recovery Society provides housing and case management services to at risk individuals upon their exit from addictions treatment.

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9
Calgary Homeless Foundation

Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness. Providing grants to qualified donees and other community organizations to assist individuals experiencing homelessness…

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10
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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11
Covenant House Vancouver

Covenant House Vancouver offers a 24-hour crisis shelter a supported living program street outreach and drop-in service for youth aged at 16-24 who are homeless and at risk of homeless. Covenant House Vancouver supports young people by…

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12
Canadian Mental Health Association Alberta Central Region

Education: provide information and training on mental health and wellness housing first: on-site support for tenants with previous homelessness support to adult with brain injuries supporting clients with serious mental illness based on…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elizabeth Fry Society of Greater Vancouver and the most unlike its peers is University of Victoria. 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

21 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. 21 of the 26 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
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 budgetNORTH OKANAGAN YOUTH AND FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$88,500 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$62,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S PLACE — C$57,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$50,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDRAYTON VALLEY FOOD BANK — C$45,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$42,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS KOTTAGE FOUNDATION — C$42,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY — C$37,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$37,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWILD ROSE SCHOOL DIVISION — C$31,615 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOKANAGAN LEARNING FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 4y, 43% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA SPORT CONNECTION — C$16,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERYHOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETY — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELCOME HALL MISSION — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRAYTON VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBOYLE STREET SERVICE DIVISION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVERNON SALVATION ARMY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.8% 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 Edmonton Communit…United Way of Calgary…BenefAction FoundationThe Masonic Foundatio…TELUS Friendly Future…Edmonton Oilers Commu…United Way of the Alb…Telus Employees Chari…Atco Electric EpicAqueduct FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Charitable Gift Funds…
The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv ActAB9.6× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · United Way of Calgary and Area · BenefAction Foundation · The Masonic Foundation of Alberta · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Atco Electric Epic · Aqueduct Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada

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 26 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 795080290:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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