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Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners

The Calgary Association of Lifelong Learners continues to offer over 70 different innovative and affordable learning opportunities to Calgarians.

C$2k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$200
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$100
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$182k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Calgary Philharmonic OrchestraC$200
Canadian Cancer SocietyC$200
Operation EyesightC$100
Kidney FoundationC$100
Calgary Humane SocetyC$100
Calgary Learns AssociationC$100
Calgary Climate HubC$100
Calgary Food BankC$100
Centre for SexualityC$100
Calgary Immigrant Women's AssociationC$100
Alberta Cancer FoundationC$100
The Mustard SeedC$100
Calgary Firefighters Burn Treatment SocietyC$100
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4k · 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 +75% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
23

Total granted

C$4k
C$3k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+75%
+6%

Still filing today

86%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • SS
    St. Stephen's Anglican Church
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$2k · revenue +75%
  • SM
    ST. MATTHEW'S UNITED CHURCH
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$550 · revenue +961%
  • MS
    Mustard Seed Society
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$400 · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • ML
    MARDA LOOP COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$200
  • CP
    CONFEDERATION PARK 55+ ACTIVITY CENTRE
    one grant, 2020 · C$200 · revenue +2%
  • TG
    The Governors of the University of Calgary
    one grant, 2023 · C$200 · revenue +9%

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
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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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
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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4
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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5
Calgary International Film Festival Society

The calgary international film festival (ciff) is a 12 day showcase of up to 200 multi-genre films from canada and over 40 countries. the festival hosts gala events award ceremonies and special presentations. we host a large number of…

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6
The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation

Alberta ecotrust foundation implements programs and projects to protect the environment which includes protecting the quality of air and water wildlife habitat parks and suburban land use. in addition to its own projects and in pursuit of…

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7
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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8
Cups Calgary Society

CUPS supports Calgarians impacted by poverty trauma and systemic marginalization with a unique integrated approach to care. We empower people to work holistically to create and achieve goals that support their well-being and build…

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9
Contemporary Calgary Arts Society

Public art gallery dedicated to the exhibition education and discussion of contemporary art including the presentation of curated exhibitions speaker series publications public events and activities independently and in partnership with…

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10
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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11
Calgary Public Library Board

The Calgary Public Library provides services to the citizens of Calgary including access to books and materials electronic resources information services other activities and to promote programs and life-long learning for children and…

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12
Heritage Calgary

Advise city council on all matters relating to heritage resources in Calgary. Evaluating potential heritage sites and maintaining inventory of evaluated historic resources. Promoting public awareness of Calgary's heritage.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Centre of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Dharma Realm Buddhist Association. 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

36 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. 36 of the 41 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
19/36
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 budgetSt. Stephen's Anglican Church — C$1,750 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetST. MATTHEW'S UNITED CHURCH — C$550 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMustard Seed Society — C$400 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Climate Reality Project — C$200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Women's Emergency Centre — C$200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Governors of the University of Calgary — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Philharmonic Orchestra — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanada Helps — C$150 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way of Calgary — C$125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGreen Calgary — C$125 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Climate Hub — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Wilderness Association — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Alex — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Immigrant Women's Association — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Feed the Children — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrue North Aid — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Food Bank — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Firefighters Burn Treatment Society — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoyal Tyrrell Museum — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSustainable Calgary Society — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Cancer Foundation — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Centre of Calgary — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Humane Socety — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWar Child Canada — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWorld Animal Protection — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA Canada — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Public Library Foundation — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOperation Eyesight — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentre for Sexuality — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBear Clan Patrol — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Learns Association — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStephen Lewis Foundation — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDharma Realm Buddhist Association — C$50 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…Cenovus Employee Foun…Atco Electric EpicThe Edmonton Communit…United Way of the Alb…Telus Employees Chari…Jewish Community Foun…Nickle Family Foundat…Aqueduct FoundationCanada GivesWestmount Charter Sch…
The Calgary FoundationAB16.2× affinity19 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 · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · Nickle Family Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Canada Gives · Westmount Charter School Society

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 41 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 support of schools and education.

Source object 757514526:2024-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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