Calgary, AB · Charitable organization
Calgary Reads (An Early Literacy Initiative) Society
We read: sharing online training and tutoring great read-aloud books and games with kindergarten and gr 1 students on a digital platform reading place: testing innovative ideas to catalyze a love of reading and create literacy-rich environments in both school and/ community little free libraries: supplying free books to little free…
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$8k
- C$10k–50k5 grants · C$105k
- C$50k–250k3 grants · C$428k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CALGARY FOUNDATION | C$218,268 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY | C$130,000 |
| ROTARY CLUB OF CALGAY | C$80,000 |
| BIG BROTHER AND BIG SISTERS OF CALGARY AND AREA | C$35,000 |
| UNITED FOR LITERACY | C$20,000 |
| CUPS CALGARY SOCIETY | C$20,000 |
| YMCA CALGARY | C$20,000 |
| YOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARY | C$10,000 |
| CANADIAN CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION | C$3,000 |
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 Calgary Public Library Foundation's sole purpose is to raise funds for the Calgary Public Library to enhance programs and services provided to Calgarians.
Awarded scholarships
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…
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…
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…
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…
Foundation supports calgary's ophthalmology program through enhanced education research and program development.
Advance and enhance public education in the city of calgary by providing grants to qualified donees involved in public education. the principal donee is the calgary board of education
In support of the calgary arts academy society to advance arts immersion in education so support capital endeavors for the society.
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…
United way of calgary and area is a 100% local charity that brings together donors corporations agencies and government to solve complex issues and improve lives. we strategically invest in local agencies and collaboratives to create…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Calgary Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Calgary. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 10 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.
- Who funds THE CALGARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY CLUB OF CALGAY ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHER AND BIG SISTERS OF CALGARY AND AREA ↗
- Who funds CUPS CALGARY SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED FOR LITERACY ↗
- Who funds YOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARY ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WORLD LITERACY FOUNDATION ↗
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 Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund · United Way of Calgary and Area · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.