Calgary, AB · Private foundation
Canadian Legacy Project
The CANADIAN LEGACY PROJECT was established to : 1.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
- C$10k–50k6 grants · C$80k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Individual grant recipient | C$21,415 |
| ATLAS INSTITUTE FOR VETERANS AND FAMILIES | C$18,916 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$10,000 |
| GREAT CANADIAN PICKLEBALL CLUB | C$10,000 |
| MARK MEINCKE | C$10,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$5,028 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 84% of grant dollars (C$1.4M). The 16% that went abroad (C$280k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 16% of all-years giving (C$280k)
0 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 +117% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 7 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$85k 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
- HFHOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION6× · 2018–2023 · C$654k · revenue +249%
- VAVETERANS ASSOCIATION FOOD BANK3× · 2019–2022 · C$103k · revenue +117%
- VVVETERANS VOICES OF CANADA ASSOCIATION5× · 2019–2023 · C$44k · revenue +7% · 29% of their budget
Funded once
- HFHomes for Heroes Foundationone grant, 2017 · C$275k
- MRMOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$143k · revenue +60%
- CPCAN PRAXIS EALone grant, 2023 · C$42k · revenue -59%
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.
Assisting veterans and their families in obtaining the various services available to them when in need.
Dog training for accompaniment of veterans
Hands on therapeutic farm where soldiers & veterans diagnosed with ptsd learn about agriculture care & well-being of rescued & abused farm animals honey bees & themselves.
Providing household goods for war veterans moving from the streets into housing provided by 'homes for heroes'
We continued to develop the necessary partnerships and infrastructure to grow our ability to give tickets to veterans who deserve them. Our website www.vettickets.ca has been optimized to allow users to register in both English and French.…
Emergency financial assistance to canadian forces veterans and their families in times of crisis.
Support to wounded military personnel and their families
Veterans Programs including Homeless Veterans Program Operation Service Dogs Ruck to Remember & 779 Black Knight Royal Canadian Air Cadet Squadron
V.e.t.s. provides aid and comfort to transient and homeless canadian veterans by providing the essentials in emergencies and assisting those at risk
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Veterans Services Society and the most unlike its peers is Audeamus. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 31 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 HOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds VETERANS ASSOCIATION FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds AUDEAMUS ↗
- Who funds VETERANS VOICES OF CANADA ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds CAN PRAXIS EAL ↗
- Who funds AEROS PSACE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF CALGARY (THE HANGAR FLIGHT ↗
- Who funds FIELD OF CROSSES ↗
- Who funds VETERANS LEGAL ASSISTANCE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds GREENWOOD MILITARY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE (GMFRC) ↗
- Who funds THE VETERANS FOOD BANK OF CALGARY ↗
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 Flames Foundation · The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund · Carthy Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Canada Gives · Atco Electric Epic · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation
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.