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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

Calgary Learns Association

The Alberta Government funds the Provincial Community Adult Learning Program (CALP).

C$2.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$317k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$4k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$318k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$977k
  • C$250k+4 grants · C$1.2M
C$73,248
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRE FOR NEWCOMERSC$317,161
CANLEARN SOCIETYC$316,915
CALGARY IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S ASSOCIATIONC$273,403
CALGARY CATHOLIC IMMIGRATION SOCIETYC$263,258
THE IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL SOCIETYC$192,027
CALGARY JOHN HOWARD SOCIETYC$186,420
PROSPECT HUMAN SERVICESC$135,728
UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CONGRESS ALBERTA PROVINCIAL COUNCILC$111,778
MOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETYC$107,580
ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRENC$95,717
FAMILIES MATTER SOCIETY OF CALGARYC$74,129
CARYA SOCIETY OF CALGARYC$73,248
THE WOMEN'S CENTRE OF CALGARYC$48,139
ABORIGINAL FUTURES CAREER AND TRAINING CENTREC$45,553
ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF CALGARYC$44,910
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$14M · 34 repeat orgsC$266k to everyone else

34 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
10

Total granted

C$14M
C$250k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+37%

Still filing today

85%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$16k 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

  • CS
    CANLEARN SOCIETY
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.7M · revenue +11%
  • CI
    CALGARY IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +44%
  • TI
    THE IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$680k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • KC
    Kindred Connections Society
    one grant, 2023 · C$75k
  • GA
    GATEWAY ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$56k
  • AF
    Aboriginal Futures Career and Training Centre
    one grant, 2018 · C$39k

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
Calgary Learns Association

The Alberta Government funds the Provincial Community Adult Learning Program (CALP). It is the role of individual CALPs across the province to ensure the delivery of part-time non-formal literacy and foundational learning opportunities to…

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2
Centre for Autism Services Alberta

Intensive intervention and ECS programs for children youth teens and young adults with autism Family support services Therapeutic and recreational groups for children youth teens and young adults with autism Employment readiness and…

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3
Community Learning Network - an Alberta Association of Leaders in Lifelong Learning

The Community Learning Network (CLN) cultivates and promotes the advancement of community-based learning in Alberta by providing training support and resources to our networks. Based on identified trends needs and issues in community adult…

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4
Autism Calgary Association

Family public and community education; information and referral; advocacy; community presentations; in-house services and conferences; peer to peer networking; community based events providing opportunities for social interaction between…

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5
Progressive Alternatives Society of Calgary

Progressive alternatives society provides employment counseling employment support community support on-the-job training for adults with developmontal disabilities in the calgary region. they also offer community based programs using…

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6
Inclusion Alberta Society

To support persons with developmental disabilities and their families by supporting them to live in the community attend school and achieve meaningful employment provide training and workshops and support individuals to attend

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7
Calgary Outlink: Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity

Outlink provides a variety of peer support services for 2SLGBTQ+ community members including groups facilitated by volunteers 1-1 peer support resource referral and system navigation support provided by staff and 1-1 mentorship pairings…

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8
Centre for Family Literacy Society of Alberta

As a literacy leader in Canada we provide a continuum of services that enable individuals and families to participate at any stage of literacy development. We develop and deliver family literacy and adult literacy programs in the Alberta…

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9
Independent Living Resource Centre of Calgary

Life skills personal empowerment program peer support - individual counselling/ self improvement workshops volunteer program-community and office based volunteers information and resources for disabled learn program - recreation and…

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10
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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11
The Integrated Post Secondary Education Society of Alberta

Support for adults with developmental disabilities in authentic university experience. support for adults with developmental disabilities finding and maintaining meaningful paid employment. support adults with developmental disabilities…

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12
Calgary Drop-in & Rehab Centre Society

The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre provides access to a spectrum of care that supports adults at risk of homelessness to the most independent living possible - including various emergency shelter programs and services and affordable and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centre for Newcomers Society of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Mount Royal University Foundation. 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

34 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. 34 of the 45 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
27/34
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 JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY — C$1,748,145 over 7y, 7.1% of budgetCANLEARN SOCIETY — C$1,676,093 over 7y, 16% of budgetCALGARY IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION — C$1,275,244 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY — C$679,625 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCENTRE FOR NEWCOMERS — C$670,994 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetMOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY — C$579,814 over 7y, 1.2% of budgetALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$545,198 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetPROSPECT HUMAN SERVICES — C$540,019 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetFamilies Matter Society — C$504,530 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetCARYA SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$476,892 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetFURTHER EDUCATION SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$428,019 over 5y, 12% of budgetCalgary Chinese Community Service Association — C$422,702 over 7y, 12% of budgetBow Valley College — C$406,300 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetElizabeth Fry Society of Calgary — C$385,949 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICE OF CALGARY — C$318,736 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetCLOSER TO HOME COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$236,700 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$215,856 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSouthern Alberta Institute of Technology — C$194,472 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDEAF AND HEAR ALBERTA — C$154,220 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetImmigrants Services Calgary — C$152,951 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTRE OF CALGARY — C$109,217 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetASSOCIATION OF THE INSIDE OUT INTEGRATED THEATRE — C$93,341 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetURBAN SOCIETY FOR ABORIGINAL YOUTH — C$90,329 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetMOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY — C$76,593 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSUNRISE COMMUNITY LINK RESOURCE CENTRE SOCIETY — C$74,800 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association — C$62,550 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMAKING CHANGES ASSOCIATION — C$54,356 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetDEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES RESOURCE CENTRE — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAGAPÉ LANGUAGE CENTRE — C$24,834 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetGATEWAY ASSOCIATION — C$14,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN ZALMI SOCIETY — C$9,438 over 1y, 14% of budgetConnect Society — C$4,429 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary SCOPE Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth East Family Connectins Society — C$1,873 over 1y, 0.4% 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 JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CANLEARN SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds THE IMMIGRANT EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE FOR NEWCOMERS ↗
  • Who funds MOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds PROSPECT HUMAN SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Families Matter Society ↗
  • Who funds CARYA SOCIETY OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds FURTHER EDUCATION SOCIETY OF ALBERTA ↗
  • Who funds Calgary Chinese Community Service Association ↗
  • Who funds Bow Valley College ↗
  • Who funds Elizabeth Fry Society of Calgary ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICE OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds CLOSER TO HOME COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Southern Alberta Institute of Technology ↗
  • Who funds DEAF AND HEAR ALBERTA ↗
  • Who funds Immigrants Services Calgary ↗
  • Who funds THE WOMEN'S CENTRE OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds ASSOCIATION OF THE INSIDE OUT INTEGRATED THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds URBAN SOCIETY FOR ABORIGINAL YOUTH ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SUNRISE COMMUNITY LINK RESOURCE CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Mental Health Association ↗
  • Who funds MAKING CHANGES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds DEVELOPMENTAL DISABILITIES RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds AGAPÉ LANGUAGE 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.

Kids Up Front Foundat…The Calgary FoundationCalgary Inter-Faith F…United Way of Calgary…The Rotary Club of Ca…Calgary Shaw Charity …Cenovus Employee Foun…The Burns Memorial Fu…Calgary Flames Founda…Atco Electric EpicNickle Family Foundat…Carthy Foundation
Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary)AB21.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · Calgary Flames Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Nickle Family Foundation · Carthy 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 45 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 2024-12-31, 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 139605000:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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