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Calgary, AB · Public foundation

Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation

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C$14M
Granted FY2021
220
Grants FY2021
4
Regions reached
C$409k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 220 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under C$10k44 grants · C$226k
  • C$10k–50k86 grants · C$2.6M
  • C$50k–250k79 grants · C$8.3M
  • C$250k+11 grants · C$3.3M
C$40,573
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$5.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hockey Alberta FoundationC$409,402
Alberta Adolescent Recovery CentreC$333,353
Calgary ReadsC$316,777
ROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE OF CALGARYC$301,970
Discovery House Family Violence Prevention SocietyC$297,077
Children First CanadaC$275,832
Calgary Jewish FederationC$275,832
Classroom ChampionsC$275,827
The Educational Partnership FoundationC$274,929
Variety Club of Alberta Tent 61 Heart of Variety TrustC$274,929
CAREERS The Next Generation FoundationC$251,575
Empowering MindsC$237,890
Rocky Mountain sympony OchestraC$235,198
Sport Central AssociationC$233,974
Calgary Youth Justice SocietyC$228,463
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$54M · 216 repeat orgsC$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

216 repeat relationships — 190 still active in FY2021, 26 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

216
46

Total granted

C$54M
C$953k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+18%

Still filing today

94%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$945k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
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

  • TE
    THE EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$1.3M · revenue ×23 · 42% of their budget
  • CC
    CLASSROOM CHAMPIONS
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$1.1M · revenue +925% · 30% of their budget
  • AC
    Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$1.1M · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • TG
    The Golf Canada Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$170k
  • HS
    Hull Services
    one grant, 2018 · C$153k
  • SS
    SOUP SISTERS AND BROTH BROTHERS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · C$73k · revenue -49%

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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Beam Foundation

BEAM Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of kids & youth in Calgary Alberta. Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable wellness programs to children and youth who are…

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2
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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3
Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association

The charity supports children who are living with disabilities and specialized needs in our communities. Through education advocacy direct support and community outreach we support children who are facing physical developmental emotional…

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4
Action for Bright Children (Calgary Society)
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5
Change Health Alberta

Runs a camp which aims to reconnect famililes and children with healthy active lifestyles through a series of educational programming in alberta

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6
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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7
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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8
Calgary Arts Foundation

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…

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9
Even Start for Children Society of Calgary

Early intervention working with high risk preschool children.. working with high risk children and their families

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10
Kids With Cancer Society of Northern Alberta

The Kids with Cancer Society offers programming to assist families in the following areas: Support - Provides the necessary tools to help families cope for the demands of the treatment and minimize family disruption and related stress.…

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11
Calgary Academy Society

Operating a private day school for students diagnosed with learning difficulties.

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12
The Society of Alberta Dance Theatre for Young People

Alberta dance theatre produces an outstanding and unique program to dancers aged 7-17 in calgary through an intense 12 week program where dancers engage in a creative process alongside professional dance aand theatre artists. this process…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Gull Lake Baptist Camp. 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

280 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. 280 of the 289 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.

41
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
88
Early backer (in before they grew)
267/280
Grantees still filing
208/280
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetAlberta Adolescent Recovery Centre — C$1,733,985 over 5y, 11% of budgetTHE EDUCATIONAL PARTNERSHIP FOUNDATION — C$1,310,497 over 5y, 42% of budgetCLASSROOM CHAMPIONS — C$1,126,329 over 5y, 30% of budgetAlberta Children's Hospital Foundation — C$1,116,025 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Southern Alberta Society — C$953,567 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetBoys and Girls Clubs of Calgary — C$907,703 over 4y, 55% of budgetHockey Alberta Foundation — C$862,244 over 4y, 46% of budgetFoothills Academy Society — C$789,722 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetEaster Seals Alberta Society — C$758,823 over 5y, 6.4% of budgetTHE PREP PROGRAM — C$738,410 over 5y, 14% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters Association of Medicine Hat and — C$727,112 over 5y, 51% of budgetROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE OF CALGARY — C$726,585 over 4y, 100% of budgetCalgary Youth Justice Society — C$706,285 over 5y, 31% of budgetCalgary Philharmonic Society — C$703,912 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetCHILDREN'S HOSPITAL AID SOCIETY — C$668,664 over 5y, 34% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA — C$631,262 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetEmpowering Minds — C$627,510 over 5y, 50% of budgetSheldon Kennedy Advocacy Centre — C$597,253 over 5y, 6.8% of budgetCalgary Reads — C$596,797 over 5y, 21% of budgetKIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA — C$577,224 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSport Central Association — C$557,746 over 5y, 29% of budgetVARIETY CLUB OF ALBERTA TENT 61 HEART OF VARIETY TRUST — C$551,494 over 2y, 32% of budgetCalgary Jewish Federation — C$550,332 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetCAREERS The Next Generation Foundation — C$547,857 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE — C$534,960 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetDogs with Wings Assistance Dog Society — C$512,254 over 5y, 13% of budgetDiscovery House Family Violence Prevention Society — C$511,624 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetCALGARY POLICE FOUNDATION — C$498,955 over 5y, 11% of budgetRocky Mountain sympony Ochestra — C$486,903 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetKIDS UP FRONT FOUNDATION (CALGARY) — C$483,505 over 5y, 7.3% of budgetCALGARY CENTRE FOR PERFORMING ARTS — C$469,978 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCANLEARN SOCIETY — C$459,030 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetBetween Friends Club — C$458,962 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetDARE TO CARE — C$437,297 over 5y, 37% of budgetNSTEP — C$419,126 over 5y, 79% of budgetTHE SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$410,664 over 3y, 23% of budgetHERITAGE PARK SOCIETY — C$410,617 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$407,754 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetYouth Central Society — C$393,101 over 5y, 21% of budgetMealshare Aid Foundation — C$387,038 over 5y, 31% of budgetCUPS CALGARY SOCIETY — C$383,417 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetCALGARY JEWISH COMMUNITY CAMPUS CORPORATION — C$381,753 over 3y, 5.3% of budgetCamp Cadicasu Association of Calgary — C$381,551 over 5y, 20% of budgetCerebral Palsy Association in Alberta — C$378,696 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetYouth Unlimited — C$367,842 over 5y, 7.2% of budgetCALGARY FLAMES FOUNDATION — C$362,313 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetEVENSTART FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION OF CALGARY — C$361,095 over 5y, 15% of budgetYMCA Edmonton — C$359,698 over 5y, 1.1% 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.

Calgary Flames Founda…Kids Up Front Foundat…Children's Hospital A…The Burns Memorial Fu…Calgary Inter-Faith F…Harry and Martha Cohe…Cenovus Employee Foun…Hunter Family Foundat…Nickle Family Foundat…The Rotary Club of Ca…The Calgary FoundationAtco Gas Employees' C…
Calgary Flames FoundationAB51.5× affinity75 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Flames Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Children's Hospital Aid Society · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund · The Calgary Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund

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 289 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 public foundation under foundations.

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 827378977:2021-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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