Calgary, AB · Charitable organization
Calgary Young Men's Christian Association
Since inception in 1902 ymca calgary has evolved into a vibrant charity offering health and wellness programs leadership and community outreach programs childcare and day and overnight camps.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$641
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$48k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | C$36,417 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$12,000 |
| VIVO FOR HEALTHIER GENERATIONS SOCIETY | C$500 |
| YWCA CALGARY | C$141 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 13% of grant dollars (C$14k). The 87% that went abroad (C$89k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 87% of all-years giving (C$89k)
2 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +60% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$500 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
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · C$60k
- IGIndividual grant recipient2× · 2023–2024 · C$29k
- YCYMCA CANADA2× · 2017–2023 · C$10k · revenue +60%
Funded once
- UWUNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREAone grant, 2019 · C$1k · revenue -3%
- TGToronto General & Western Hospital Foundationgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$200 · revenue +149%
- HAHeart and Stroke Foundationone grant, 2017 · C$200 · revenue +17%
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.
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Calgary and Area and the most unlike its peers is The Mustard Seed Street Church (Edmonton). 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 13 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 YMCA CANADA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA ↗
- Who funds YWCA CALGARY ↗
- Who funds VIVO FOR HEALTHIER GENERATIONS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds Toronto General & Western Hospital Foundation ↗
- Who funds Heart and Stroke Foundation ↗
- Who funds Amnesty International ↗
- Who funds The ALS Society of Alberta ↗
- Who funds CONNECT SOCIETY ↗
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 · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · Atco Electric Epic · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · 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.