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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

Calgary Academy Society

Operating a private day school for students diagnosed with learning difficulties.

C$515k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$2k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$12k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$500k
C$850
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Headwater Learning FoundationC$500,000
Alberta Cancer FoundationC$12,276
Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWSTC$850
The Terry Fox FoundationC$802
Skipping Stone Scholarship FoundationC$641
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$2.7M · 7 repeat orgsC$3k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

C$2.7M
C$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$641 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

  • HL
    Headwater Learning Foundation
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$2.6M · revenue +11%
  • AC
    Alberta Cancer Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$60k · revenue +133%
  • TT
    The Terry Fox Foundation
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$6k · revenue +41%

Funded once

  • TH
    The Hellenic Greek Orthodox Community of Calgary and Distric
    one grant, 2019 · C$1k · revenue -12%
  • AC
    Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2020 · C$386 · revenue +16%
  • WC
    Women's Centre of Calgarygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$267 · revenue +47%

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 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
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 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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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
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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6
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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7
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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8
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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9
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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10
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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11
Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation

Charitable status was received on April 1 2018 and CAHF has been in a set up phase since that time. In this current fiscal year there has been activity related to preparing to deliver charitable activities which can be described as…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (Cawst). 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

15 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
11/15
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 budgetHeadwater Learning Foundation — C$2,600,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetAlberta Cancer Foundation — C$59,830 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Terry Fox Foundation — C$6,114 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetThe Canadian Red Cross Society — C$2,553 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCentre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (CAWST — C$1,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPlan International — C$1,378 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hellenic Greek Orthodox Community of Calgary and Distric — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSkipping Stone Scholarship Foundation — C$641 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society — C$623 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Children's Hospital Foundation — C$386 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Centre of Calgary — C$267 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Kidney Foundation of Canada — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCloser to Home Community Services Society — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Calgary Society — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Alpha House Society — C$52 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.

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 Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Atco Electric EpicCenovus Employee Foun…Viewpoint FoundationCanada GivesCalgary Shaw Charity …United Way of the Alb…Aqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…TELUS Friendly Future…BenefAction Foundation
The Calgary FoundationAB9.7× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Electric Epic · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Canada Gives · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · BenefAction 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 15 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 2024-08-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under teaching institutions.

Source object 106831209:2024-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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