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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Cal Wenzel Family Foundation

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C$7.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$5.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$50k–250k14 grants · C$1.5M
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$5.7M
C$100,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$5,450,000
CALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATIONC$250,000
STARSC$200,000
THEATRE CALGARYC$200,000
THE ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTREC$100,000
I CAN FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONC$100,000
CALGARY AFFORDABLE HOUSING FOUNDATIONC$100,000
AIRDRIE MEALS ON WHEELSC$100,000
RENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOUNDATIONC$100,000
TRUE PATRIOT LOVE FOUNDATIONC$100,000
CALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$100,000
DIABETES CANADAC$100,000
THE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATIONC$100,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$100,000
WILLOW PARK CHARITY CLASSICC$60,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$24M · 11 repeat orgsC$762k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
7

Total granted

C$24M
C$162k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$600k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$19M · revenue +27%
  • TC
    THEATRE CALGARY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +20%
  • S
    STARS
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$600k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • CM
    CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue +6%
  • AS
    Alzheimer's Societygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k · revenue +61%
  • BA
    BC & AB Guide Dog Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$18k · revenue +125%

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.

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Calgary Health Foundation

Provide support for medical services long term care medical research and education by granting to alberta health services - calgary zone university of calgary medical school and other registered charities providing support of health care…

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2
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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3
Calgary Arts Foundation

Calgary arts foundation was created to generate financial support for the calgary arts sector. the foundation is focused on the arts creative industries and cultural sector to strengthen existing programs that support organizations artists…

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4
The Calgary Foundation

The Calgary Foundation carried out its charitable purpose through the ongoing administration of its granting programs. While the Foundation provides grants to support charitable activity across the entire sector it has a particular focus…

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5
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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6
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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7
Calgary Eye Foundation

Foundation supports calgary's ophthalmology program through enhanced education research and program development.

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8
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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9
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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10
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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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Seniors Resource Society and the most unlike its peers is Bow Valley College. 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

23 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. 23 of the 24 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$19,350,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTHEATRE CALGARY — C$1,425,000 over 8y, 3.7% of budgetSTARS — C$600,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION — C$500,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetWILLOW PARK CHARITY CLASSIC — C$360,000 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetBow Valley College — C$300,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$280,000 over 8y, 64% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$275,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetTRUE PATRIOT LOVE FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$180,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDIABETES CANADA — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAIRDRIE MEALS ON WHEELS — C$100,000 over 1y, 43% of budgetTHE ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDavid Foster Foundation — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAlzheimer's Society — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetBC & AB Guide Dog Services — C$18,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetGordie Howe CARES — C$9,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetAlberta Children's Hospital Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Seniors' Resource Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALBERTA CHAMPIONS SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

Calgary Flames Founda…Carthy FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…The Calgary FoundationCanada GivesCenovus Employee Foun…Atco Electric EpicAqueduct FoundationRaymond James Canada …Calgary Lions Housing…The Jeffrey and Maril…The Shawana Foundation
Calgary Flames FoundationAB11× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Flames Foundation · Carthy Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Foundation · Canada Gives · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Aqueduct Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Calgary Lions Housing Society · The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation · The Shawana Foundation

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 24 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 853981348:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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