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Calgary Flames Foundation

When the ownership group brought the flames to calgary in 1980 their mandate which is still prominent today was to ensure that the calgary flames have a positive impact on the quality of life in southern alberta.

C$4.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
131
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$400k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 131 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k44 grants · C$197k
  • C$10k–50k72 grants · C$1.4M
  • C$50k–250k9 grants · C$854k
  • C$250k+6 grants · C$1.9M
C$12,500
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PARKS FOUNDATIONC$400,000
KIDSPORT CANADAC$390,570
THE APPLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONC$300,000
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$270,000
THE CALGARY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION (YMCA)C$250,000
SPECIAL OLYMPICS CANADAC$250,000
ALS SOCIETY OF ALBERTAC$188,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSEC$157,500
SOUTHERN ALBERTA SPORTS EQUIPMENT BANK SOCIETYC$100,000
MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONC$87,719
KIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTAC$81,940
HOCKEY EDUCATION REACHING OUT SOCIETYC$75,000
RED DEER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$56,990
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$56,719
THE SALVATION ARMY ALBERTA & NORTHERN TERRITORIES DIVC$50,000
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$19M · 120 repeat orgsC$5.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

120 repeat relationships — 71 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 49 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

120
126

Total granted

C$19M
C$4.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+17%

Still filing today

95%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.4M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • AC
    ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.7M · revenue +65%
  • TG
    THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$841k · revenue +27%
  • CY
    CALGARY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$775k · revenue +36%

Funded once

  • TP
    THE PARKS FOUNDATION CALGARY (AS AGENT FOR THE CITY OF CALG
    one grant, 2021 · C$912k
  • HH
    HOCKEY HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUMgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$250k · revenue +91%
  • GO
    GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA THE
    one grant, 2022 · C$240k · revenue +3%

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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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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2
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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3
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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4
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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5
Calgary Rangers Foundation

The foundation was formed to alleviate financial barriers to participating in physical activity for children in need and raises funding for this program.

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6
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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7
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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8
Kids With Cancer Society of Northern Alberta

The Kids with Cancer Society offers programming to assist families in the following areas: Support - Provides the necessary tools to help families cope for the demands of the treatment and minimize family disruption and related stress.…

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9
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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10
Alberta Spine Foundation

The objective of the asf is to advance the delivery of spine care in alberta through innovative clinical care focused education and academic collaboration.

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11
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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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 Hockey Alberta Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Seniors Secret Service Society. 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

263 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. 263 of the 295 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)
46
Early backer (in before they grew)
261/263
Grantees still filing
165/263
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,706,555 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$841,008 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$775,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetKids Cancer Care Foundation of Alberta — C$723,090 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$651,900 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHERN ALBERTA SPORTS EQUIPMENT BANK SOCIETY — C$523,314 over 7y, 44% of budgetHOCKEY EDUCATION REACHING OUT SOCIETY — C$410,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetALS SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$403,304 over 7y, 6.1% of budgetTHE APPLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$350,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetHOCKEY ALBERTA FOUNDATION — C$271,945 over 6y, 6.3% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS CANADA — C$260,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY STREET KIDS SOCIETY — C$250,000 over 6y, 5.3% of budgetHOCKEY HALL OF FAME AND MUSEUM — C$250,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetGOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA THE — C$240,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$200,099 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$200,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetSUNNYBROOL HEALTH SCIENCE CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$187,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$186,908 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$177,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — C$176,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$175,215 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetIMMIGRANT SERVICES CALGARY SOCIETY — C$175,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetTHE CALGARY BOARD OF EDUCATION — C$165,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY MILITARY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$164,451 over 6y, 5.1% of budgetNHL FOUNDATION — C$160,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SOUTHERN ALBERTA SOCIETY — C$150,050 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$149,981 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAIRDRIE FOOD BANK — C$145,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — C$140,769 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA/FIBROSE KYSTIQUE CANADA — C$137,210 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetIMPACT SOCIETY FOF CHILDREN AND FAMILIES IN TURMOIL — C$135,000 over 3y, 6.6% of budgetCANADIAN UNICEF COMMITTEE - COMITE UNICEF CANADA — C$135,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$130,122 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetMEDICINE HAT AND DISTRICT FOOD BANK 1992 ASSOCIATION — C$130,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY ALBERTA & NORTHERN TERRITORIES DIV — C$130,000 over 4y, 15% of budgetRED DEER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$130,000 over 2y, 4.2% of budgetLETHBRIDGE FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$130,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$120,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS ASSOCIATION FOOD BANK — C$113,292 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetMOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY — C$110,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY — C$101,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetSHELDON KENNEDY CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE LTD. — C$100,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetCENTRE FOR NEWCOMERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHOCKEY CANADA FOUNDATION — C$99,631 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetVARIETY - THE CHILDREN'S CHARITY OF ALBERTA ASSOCIATION — C$95,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION - CALGARY REGION — C$92,112 over 5y, 0.3% 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 Shaw Charity …Cenovus Employee Foun…Hunter Family Foundat…Children's Hospital A…Nickle Family Foundat…The Burns Memorial Fu…Rotary Club of Calgar…Calgary Inter-Faith F…The Calgary FoundationPlace2Give FoundationViewpoint FoundationKids Up Front Foundat…
Calgary Shaw Charity Classic FoundationAB51.5× affinity75 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Children's Hospital Aid Society · Nickle Family Foundation · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · The Calgary Foundation · Place2Give Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary)

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 295 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations advancing education.

Source object 118823525:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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