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Calgary, AB · Public foundation

Calgary Homeless Foundation

Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness.

C$63M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$12M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$45k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$698k
  • C$250k+26 grants · C$62M
C$516,830
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$31M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Calgary Alpha House SocietyC$12,345,886
Alexandra Community Health CentreC$9,937,189
Trellis Society for Community ImpactC$6,617,577
CUPS Calgary SocietyC$6,065,732
Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre SocietyC$3,557,440
The Calgary John Howard SocietyC$3,318,751
Calgary Alternative Support ServicesC$2,009,819
The S.H.A.R.P. Foundation (Society Housing Aids Restricted PC$1,834,220
McMan Youth Family & Community Services AssociationC$1,669,441
Canada Dream CentreC$1,639,330
Closer to Home Community Services SocietyC$1,597,780
Discovery House Family Violence Prevention SocietyC$1,458,585
Enviros Wilderness School AssociationC$1,436,663
The Mustard Seed SocietyC$1,420,836
Distress Centre CalgaryC$1,394,722
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$519M · 40 repeat orgsC$6.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

40 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

40
15

Total granted

C$519M
C$2.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+45%

Still filing today

93%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4.1M 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

  • CC
    Calgary Community Land Trust Society
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$91M · revenue +112% · 55% of their budget
  • CA
    CALGARY ALPHA HOUSE SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$81M · revenue +129% · 62% of their budget
  • AC
    ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$80M · revenue +55% · 42% of their budget

Funded once

  • TB
    The Brenda Strafford Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$952k · revenue +45%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARY AN ALBERTA SOCIET
    one grant, 2023 · C$710k
  • NA
    Native Addictions Services Societygraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$185k · revenue +29%

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
Indwell Community Homes

Indwell creates and operates affordable housing communities that support people seeking health wellness and belonging. Indwell's affordable supportive housing programs primarily support individuals with low incomes and disabilities…

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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
Reset Society of Calgary

The Exploitation Intervention & Transition (EXIT) program (housing life skills child-care follow-care-employement prep and support) N/A

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4
Threshold Housing Society

The Society continues to provide long-term transitional housing for youth ages 16-25 at risk of becoming homeless. Two housing programs are offered based on the ability of the individual to live independently. A Life Skills component helps…

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5
Recovery Acres (Calgary) Society

The program helps people help themselves achieve sobriety employment and integration into the community by providing an effective treatment for alcoholism and drug abuse. the program offers day and long term treatment.

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6
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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7
Canadian Mental Health Association-Calgary Region

Supported living programs in group homes and apartment complexes for people with mental illnesses. Independent living support included bereavement counselling and group support support programs for families of those suffering from mental…

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8
Raincity Housing and Support Society

Raincity housing provides innovative specialized housing and support services for people living with mental illness addictions and other challenges. by designing programs based on research assessment evaluation and implementation of best…

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9
Her Victory Society Calgary

Outreach Program Housing Program Day Program Follow Care Program

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10
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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11
Radiance Family Society

Residential shelter: our shelter is designed for women and children who have traversed the harrowing landscape of family violence and abuse. with 24 units we provide an 18 month program that supports clients in navigatingthe practical and…

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12
Calgary Society for Persons With Disabilities

Providing residential & community supports to adults with developmental disabilities to reach their greastest potential through quality community living.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Calgary John Howard Society and the most unlike its peers is Forward Housing 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

60 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. 60 of the 67 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.

15
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/60
Grantees still filing
41/60
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCalgary Community Land Trust Society — C$90,860,631 over 8y, 55% of budgetCALGARY ALPHA HOUSE SOCIETY — C$80,589,549 over 8y, 62% of budgetALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$80,027,206 over 8y, 42% of budgetCUPS Calgary Society — C$41,574,455 over 8y, 34% of budgetThe Calgary John Howard Society — C$26,580,745 over 8y, 51% of budgetTrellis Society for Community Impact — C$20,285,956 over 4y, 19% of budgetCALGARY DROP-IN & REHAB CENTRE SOCIETY — C$14,254,426 over 5y, 11% of budgetAccessible Housing Society — C$12,019,846 over 8y, 64% of budgetDiscovery House Family Violence Prevention Society — C$11,090,962 over 8y, 41% of budgetASPEN FAMILY AND COMMUNITY NETWORK SOCIETY — C$10,831,686 over 5y, 20% of budgetABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE OF CALGARY — C$10,663,001 over 8y, 67% of budgetMCMAN YOUTH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$10,558,395 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetCanada Dream Centre — C$10,011,416 over 7y, 20% of budgetThe S.H.A.R.P. Foundation (Society Housing Aids Restricted P — C$8,747,714 over 7y, 66% of budgetCalgary Young Women's Christian Association — C$8,538,480 over 8y, 9.9% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD SOCIETY — C$7,866,213 over 8y, 16% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARY AN ALBERTA SOCIET — C$7,629,856 over 7y, 18% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED SOCIETY — C$7,298,229 over 8y, 8.3% of budgetThe Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary Foundation — C$7,066,363 over 5y, 93% of budgetCLOSER TO HOME COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$6,525,470 over 8y, 24% of budgetDistress Centre Calgary — C$6,196,814 over 8y, 13% of budgetENVIROS WILDERNESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION — C$5,027,827 over 4y, 13% of budgetMETIS CALGARY FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY — C$4,370,872 over 7y, 36% of budgetTrinity Place Foundation of Alberta — C$4,079,339 over 7y, 22% of budgetBISHOP O'BYRNE HOUSING ASSOCIATION — C$3,990,779 over 7y, 40% of budgetHorizon Housing Society — C$3,912,185 over 7y, 14% of budgetCALGARY KEYS TO RECOVERY SOCIETY — C$3,880,139 over 3y, 86% of budgetWOODS HOMES SOCIETY — C$3,764,499 over 8y, 21% of budgetSilvera for Seniors — C$3,654,574 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICE OF CALGARY — C$1,608,462 over 2y, 13% of budgetCENTRE FOR NEWCOMERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$1,412,889 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF CALGARY ALBERTA — C$1,355,968 over 5y, 68% of budgetThe Brenda Strafford Foundation — C$952,446 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetThe Salvation Army Community Services (Calgary) — C$599,189 over 4y, 88% of budgetCALGARY SENIORS' RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$536,680 over 2y, 12% of budgetFresh Start Recovery Centre — C$500,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetJOURNEY CHURCH — C$369,586 over 2y, 18% of budgetSIksika — C$365,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$294,840 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetOXFORD HOUSE FOUNDATION — C$253,806 over 3y, 12% of budgetUnited Way of Calgary and Area — C$244,460 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetNative Addictions Services Society — C$185,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetUniversal Rehabilitation Services Agency — C$154,153 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetParachutes for Pets — C$150,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetCalgary Sexual Health Centre — C$105,300 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetNortheast Addition & Mental Health Centre for Holistic Recov — C$96,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetWOMENS CENTRE CALGARY — C$48,620 over 1y, 16% of budgetHighbanks Independent Living for Parenting Youth Society — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.5% 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.

  • Who funds Calgary Community Land Trust Society ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY ALPHA HOUSE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds CUPS Calgary Society ↗
  • Who funds The Calgary John Howard Society ↗
  • Who funds Trellis Society for Community Impact ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY DROP-IN & REHAB CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Accessible Housing Society ↗
  • Who funds Discovery House Family Violence Prevention Society ↗
  • Who funds ASPEN FAMILY AND COMMUNITY NETWORK SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ABORIGINAL FRIENDSHIP CENTRE OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds MCMAN YOUTH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Canada Dream Centre ↗
  • Who funds The S.H.A.R.P. Foundation (Society Housing Aids Restricted P ↗
  • Who funds Calgary Young Women's Christian Association ↗
  • Who funds INN FROM THE COLD SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARY AN ALBERTA SOCIET ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSTARD SEED SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds The Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CLOSER TO HOME COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Distress Centre Calgary ↗
  • Who funds ENVIROS WILDERNESS SCHOOL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds METIS CALGARY FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Trinity Place Foundation of Alberta ↗
  • Who funds BISHOP O'BYRNE HOUSING ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds Horizon Housing Society ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY KEYS TO RECOVERY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WOODS HOMES SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Silvera for Seniors ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICE OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE FOR NEWCOMERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF CALGARY ALBERTA ↗
  • Who funds The Brenda Strafford Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Salvation Army Community Services (Calgary) ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY SENIORS' RESOURCE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Fresh Start Recovery Centre ↗

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 Inter-Faith F…Kids Up Front Foundat…The Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Calgary Shaw Charity …Atco Electric EpicCalgary Flames Founda…Cenovus Employee Foun…Atco Gas Employees' C…Olympia Charitable Fo…The Burns Memorial Fu…The Muttart Foundation
Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank SocietyAB36.7× affinity33 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Calgary Flames Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Olympia Charitable Foundation · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · The Muttart 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 67 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 2024-03-31, 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.

Source object 880846829:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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