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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

Calgary Lions Housing Society

Provide affordable housing for seniors and person with disabilities including homelessness

C$15k
Granted FY2021
20
Grants FY2021
2
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$300
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$376k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST DAVID'S UNITED CHURCHC$5,000
SALVATION ARMYC$2,000
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTHC$1,500
BETHANY CARE FOUNDATIONC$1,000
INN FROM THE COLDC$600
AWO TAAN HEALING LODGEC$500
ALZHEIMER SOCIETYC$500
VETERANS FOOD BANKC$300
MAGIC OF CHRISTMASC$300
BEHAVIOUR THERAPY LEARNING CENTREC$300
LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDESC$300
PACEKIDS CHAMPION FOR CHILDRENC$300
CALGARY DREAM CENTREC$300
ARTHRITIS SOCIETYC$300
JANUS ACADEMY SOCIETYC$300
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$23k · 11 repeat orgsC$8k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2021, 0 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
14

Total granted

C$23k
C$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’20’21
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

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$5k · revenue +224%
  • CM
    CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION CALGARY REGION
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$4k · revenue +12%
  • BC
    BETHANY CARE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$2k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • CP
    CALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$500 · revenue +30%
  • LF
    LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$500 · revenue +282%
  • AC
    AUTISM CALGARY ASSOCIATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$300 · 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
Society for Autism Support and Services (Calgary Region)

Services and supports for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their families including: diagnostic and assessment services residential treatment toddler program early intervention and preschool programming consultation services…

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2
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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3
Autism Society Alberta

Education and peer support - assisting families that are experiencing autism in their family unit. Matching more experienced members to mentor new members. Improving understanding of autism throughout the province of Alberta. Provide…

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4
Alberta Caregivers Association

Alberta Caregivers Association (o/a Caregivers Alberta) is an organization of caregivers for caregivers. The mission is to empower caregivers and promote their wellbeing. They do so by providing group and one-on-one supports increasing…

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5
Ability Society of Alberta

Programs including information training and access to technology to support children and adults with special needs; building community and social change through volunteerism; operating a seniors home and retail store to further build a…

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6
Als Society of Alberta

The als society of alberta is a charitable organization dedicated to making each day the best possible day for people living with and affected by als (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) across the province of alberta. we achieve our mission by…

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7
Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse Society

1. provide a support and information line available to anyone who is dealing with or has been affected by the various forms of sexual assault or sexual abuse. 2. provide 24 hour hospital call out: through the calgary sexual assault team…

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8
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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9
Autism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary

The Society was established to provide respite care in recreational environment for children youth and adults on the Autism Spectrum the purpose of this non-profit societyis to provide a safe place for youth to learn social thinking and…

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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
Canadian Mental Health Association Alberta Central Region

Education: provide information and training on mental health and wellness housing first: on-site support for tenants with previous homelessness support to adult with brain injuries supporting clients with serious mental illness based on…

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12
Calgary Humane Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The mission of the Society is to Protect Animals. Support People. Create A More Humane World. The Society offers services to the Calgary and surrounding areas in the sheltering and care of animals adoptions protection and investigation and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Seniors Resource Society and the most unlike its peers is Russo-Greek Catholic Orthodox Church of St. John the Baptist. 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

30 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. 30 of the 34 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
25/30
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 budgetST DAVID'S UNITED CHURCH — C$7,800 over 2y, 19% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$4,500 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION CALGARY REGION — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY CARE FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD SOCIETY — C$1,200 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAWO TAAN HEALING LODGE SOCIETY — C$1,100 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY — C$600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBEHAVIOUR THERAPY & LEARNING CENTRE — C$600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMAGIC OF CHRISTMAS — C$600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$600 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$530 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAUTISM CALGARY ASSOCIATION — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST THOMAS UNITED CHURCH — C$300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJANUS ACADEMY SOCIETY — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZEIMER SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION EYESIGHT CANADA — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY DREAM CENTRE — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSILVER SPRINGS BOTANICAL GARDENS SOCIETY — C$300 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE MISSION — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY SENIORS RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS ASSOCIATION FOOD BANK — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST JOHN RUSSO-GREEK OTHODOX CHURCH — C$300 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEAF & HEAR ALBERTA — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPACEKIDS CHAMPION FOR CHILDREN — C$300 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 FoundationAtco Electric EpicUnited Way of Calgary…The United Church of …Calgary Flames Founda…Carthy FoundationRotary Club of Calgar…Cenovus Employee Foun…Nickle Family Foundat…Raymond James Canada …Totem Charitable Foun…Calgary Inter-Faith F…
The Calgary FoundationAB14.3× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · United Way of Calgary and Area · The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du Canada · Calgary Flames Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Totem Charitable Foundation · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank 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 34 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 2021-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2021. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2021, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 810919209:2021-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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