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Calgary, AB · Public foundation

Calgary Jewish Federation

The CALGARY JEWISH FEDERATION (cfj) is the community's central funding planning and coordinating body.

C$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.9M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$429k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$2.9M
C$382,476
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED ISRAEL APPEAL OF CANADAC$1,900,400
CALGARY JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS CORPORATIONC$594,391
CALGARY JEWISH ACADEMYC$382,476
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICESC$217,001
AKIVA ACADEMYC$123,795
CAMP BB-RIBACKC$87,726
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$18M · 8 repeat orgsC$74k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
6

Total granted

C$18M
C$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+101%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • CJ
    CALGARY JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS CORPORATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$7.1M · revenue +21% · 56% of their budget
  • CJ
    CALGARY JEWISH ACADEMY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.1M · revenue +9%
  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.8M · revenue +195%

Funded once

  • CB
    CAMP BB-RIBACK
    one grant, 2019 · C$48k
  • TB
    TEMPLE B'NAI TIKVAHgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue +143%
  • JF
    JEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVERgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +107%

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 Jewish Federation

The calgary jewish federation (cfj) is the community's central funding planning and coordinating body. the cfj allocates resources according to a strategic plan based on jewish communal needs and priorities. cfj also offers programming…

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2
Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary

Jcfc allocates funds provided by donors to further the religious and educatinal need of the calgary jewish community the calgary community at large and canadian jewry. its programs promote the foundation to potential donors and distributes…

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3
Chevra Kadisha of Calgary

Chevra kadisha of calgary maintains cemeteries for the burial of persons of jewish faith including the perpetual care of cemetaries. chapel facilities are maintained for conducting funeral services.

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4
The Friends of the Calgary Jewish Academy Trust

The charitycontinues to receive donations and investment revenue and to make allocations to 'the calgary jewish academy'

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5
Jewish Community Centre of Edmonton

The jewish community centre of edmonton (jcc) is the home of the edmonton jewish community. it houses the office of the jewish federation and other community organizations. it also provides space to benefit organizations to host meetings…

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6
Chabad of Downtown Vancouver

Fostering and conducting religious jewish educating in bc

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7
Chabad of Coquitlam - Centre for Jewish Life Society

The society provides religious and educational programs to the jewish community of coquitlam bc

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8
Jewish Archives & Historical Society of Edmonton and Norther

Preserve and present the history religious and cultural heritage of the jewish people of edmonton and northern alberta

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9
Edmonton Chevra Kadisha

Provides burial services for the jewish community

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10
Chabad Okanagan Society

The Society provides religious and educational programs to the Jewish Community of the Interior of BC that further cultural and religious beliefs and activities.

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11
Downtown Jewish Community School of Toronto

The school provides classes from junior kindergarten to high school with a curriculum that develops an understanding of Jewish heritage religion culture and traditions. The school serves the Jewish community within the proximity of…

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12
Canadian Association for Jewish Family Education and Continuity

Teaching & counselling the importance of jewish family life in canada

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Jewish Academy and the most unlike its peers is Temple B'nai Tikvah. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
10/13
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 budgetCALGARY JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS CORPORATION — C$7,064,279 over 8y, 56% of budgetUNITED ISRAEL APPEAL OF CANADA — C$4,575,632 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetCALGARY JEWISH ACADEMY — C$3,087,294 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES — C$1,831,248 over 8y, 14% of budgetAkiva Academy — C$1,060,685 over 8y, 8.8% of budgetCAMP BB-RIBACK — C$306,162 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetCALGARY KOLLEL — C$83,200 over 6y, 27% of budgetJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA — C$29,400 over 2y, 40% of budgetTEMPLE B'NAI TIKVAH — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetJEWISH FEDERATION OF GREATER VANCOUVER — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY BETH TZEDEC CONGREGATION SOCIETY — C$3,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL ORGANIZATION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION LUBAVITCH ALBERTA — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKEHILAT SHALOM SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$1,576 over 1y, 1.3% 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.

Jewish Community Foun…Calgary Lodge Menorah…Sam Ousher Switzer Ch…The Alvin and Mona Li…The Calgary FoundationThe Philip and Harrie…United Way of Calgary…Hadassah-Wizo Organiz…Somar Family Foundati…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
Jewish Community Foundation of CalgaryAB15.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · Calgary Lodge Menorah Charitable Foundation · Sam Ousher Switzer Charitable Foundation · The Alvin and Mona Libin Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · The Philip and Harriet Libin Family Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Hadassah-Wizo Organization Of Canada - L'Organisation HadassAh-Wizo Du Canada · Somar Family Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada

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 14 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 830002861:2024-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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