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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Cenovus Employee Foundation

Annual 'Thanks and Giving' fundraising program to promote and encourage charitable giving by employees, officers, and directors of Cenovus Energy Inc.

C$1.5M
Granted FY2017
515
Grants FY2017
7
Regions reached
C$176k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 515 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under C$10k489 grants · C$667k
  • C$10k–50k21 grants · C$403k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$395k
C$720
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$9k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Way of Calgary and AreaC$175,830
Calgary Poppy FundC$65,402
Calgary Women's Emergency Shelter AssociationC$53,580
The Young Men's Christian Association of EdmontonC$50,000
Outward Bound CanadaC$50,000
Children's Cottage Society of CalgaryC$45,010
Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank SocietyC$39,140
Alberta Children's Hospital FoundationC$35,066
Calgary Police FoundationC$26,000
The Mustard SeedC$24,470
MORE Project CanadaC$24,000
Alberta Cancer FoundationC$21,376
United Way of Greater TorontoC$20,000
Canadian Red CrossC$19,490
Brown Bagging for Calgary Kids SocietyC$15,580
02Your 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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Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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2
The Calgary Foundation

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…

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3
Calgary Eye Foundation

Foundation supports calgary's ophthalmology program through enhanced education research and program development.

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4
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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5
Government of the Province of Alberta

Alberta health services (ahs) is mandated by the government of alberta for the delivery and operation of the public health system in alberta. ahs is also responsible to: - promote and protect the health of the population and work towards…

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6
Alberta Public Health Association

Provide public health information to members of the public provide public health professional and student engagement opportunities in public health and promote health protection initiatives

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7
Alberta Helping Animals Society

Support successful and enduring human-animal bonds between companion animals and people with low income disabilities and unfortunate circumstances through providing advice advocacy and access to veterinary care and other services.

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8
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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9
Help a Buddy Fund

We financially support registered charitable animal welfare groups in Alberta by offering monetary grants and joint fundraising efforts to those who have programs in place to support animals in need of long-term rehabilitation of a year or…

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10
Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society

Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society supplies funding primarily to Qualified Donees that support spay and neuter assistance programs in Calgary and surrounding areas.

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11
Alberta Spine Foundation

The objective of the asf is to advance the delivery of spine care in alberta through innovative clinical care focused education and academic collaboration.

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Foundation for Seniors' Care-Hearts of Excellence and the most unlike its peers is Women Lawyers Joining Hands. 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

438 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. 438 of the 447 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
119
Early backer (in before they grew)
422/438
Grantees still filing
328/438
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 budgetUnited Way of Calgary and Area — C$175,830 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCalgary Poppy Fund — C$65,402 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCalgary Women's Emergency Shelter Association — C$53,580 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Young Men's Christian Association of Edmonton — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOutward Bound Canada — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetChildren's Cottage Society of Calgary — C$45,010 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCalgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society — C$39,140 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlberta Children's Hospital Foundation — C$35,066 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Police Foundation — C$26,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetThe Mustard Seed — C$24,470 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlberta Cancer Foundation — C$24,076 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMORE Project Canada — C$24,000 over 1y, 48% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Toronto — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$19,990 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrown Bagging for Calgary Kids Society — C$15,580 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCalgary Humane Society — C$15,060 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Eyesight Global — C$15,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetMomentum — C$14,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society, Alberta/Northwest Territories Divis — C$14,240 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRosedale Elementary/Junior High School — C$12,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids' World Outreach Society — C$12,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetInn from the Cold Society — C$11,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPublic Policy Forum — C$11,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Calgary — C$10,950 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMultiple Sclerosis Society of Canada — C$10,560 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChinese Christian Mission of Canada — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCalgary Waldorf School Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Salvation Army — C$9,350 over 1y, 8.3% of budgetStrathcone-Tweedsmuir School — C$8,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRonald McDonald House of Southern Alberta — C$8,200 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStollery Children's Hospital Foundation — C$8,160 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Southern Alberta — C$8,100 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMeow Foundation — C$8,050 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetAlberta Theatre Projects — C$7,900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDon Bosco School — C$7,720 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGenerations of Hope Fertility Assistance Fund — C$7,500 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetMedicine Hat and District Food Bank Association — C$7,460 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCalgary Health Trust — C$7,200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCold Lake Food Bank Society — C$6,800 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCalgary Philharmonic Orchestra — C$6,450 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLive Different — C$6,400 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCalgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre Society — C$6,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Diabetes Foundation — C$6,080 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEsther Honens International Piano Competition Foundation — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBonnyville Health Foundation — C$6,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$5,850 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association — C$5,820 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Parrot Sanctuary Society — C$5,400 over 1y, 28% 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.

Atco Gas Employees' C…Calgary Flames Founda…Kids Up Front Foundat…Calgary Shaw Charity …Viewpoint FoundationCalgary Inter-Faith F…Place2Give FoundationAtco Electric EpicJewish Community Foun…The Calgary Roman Cat…United Way of South E…Nickle Family Foundat…
Atco Gas Employees' Community Service FundAB41.7× affinity90 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Calgary Flames Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Place2Give Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · United Way of South Eastern Alberta · Nickle Family 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.

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 447 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 2017-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2017. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2019) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 807183660:2017-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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