Calgary, AB · Charitable organization
Calgary North Academic Awards Fund
We carry on fundraising activities to support the university of calgary bursary mount royal university bursary women's centre and to provide assistance to underprivileged schools.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY | C$2,000 |
| MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION | C$1,000 |
| EDUCATION MATTERS | C$1,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY8× · 2017–2024 · C$18k · revenue +27%
- EMEDUCATION MATTERS4× · 2021–2024 · C$4k · revenue +55%
- CBCALGARY BOARD OF EDUCATION2× · 2017–2018 · C$2k · revenue +16%
Funded once
- ATAWO TAAN HEALING LODGEgraduatedone grant, 2019 · C$1k · revenue +35%
- HAHEARTS AND HANDS FOUNDATIONone grant, 2020 · C$500 · revenue -3%
- CPCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2018 · C$100 · revenue -37%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…
Awarded scholarships
Supporting university of calgary books to build on fund providing books for indigenous students.
The Calgary Foundation carried out its charitable purpose through the ongoing administration of its granting programs. While the Foundation provides grants to support charitable activity across the entire sector it has a particular focus…
The Calgary Public Library provides services to the citizens of Calgary including access to books and materials electronic resources information services other activities and to promote programs and life-long learning for children and…
Foundation supports calgary's ophthalmology program through enhanced education research and program development.
Calgary arts foundation was created to generate financial support for the calgary arts sector. the foundation is focused on the arts creative industries and cultural sector to strengthen existing programs that support organizations artists…
Scholarship luncheon donations
In support of the calgary arts academy society to advance arts immersion in education so support capital endeavors for the society.
Advancement of education
Provide support for medical services long term care medical research and education by granting to alberta health services - calgary zone university of calgary medical school and other registered charities providing support of health care…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Educationmatters and the most unlike its peers is Hearts and Hands Foundation for Humanitarian Assistance. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · Nickle Family Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du 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.