Calgary, AB · Private foundation
Chinook Foundation
The charity gives grants to other charities and foundations for educational advancement and community improvement
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k16 grants · C$81k
- C$10k–50k3 grants · C$72k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS | C$30,000 |
| CALGARY INTERFAITH FOOD BANK | C$30,000 |
| ALCOVE | C$12,000 |
| ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$8,500 |
| WILDER INSTITUTE | C$8,000 |
| DEFEAT DUCHENNE CANADA | C$8,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED | C$7,500 |
| CUPS | C$7,500 |
| STARS | C$6,000 |
| TRELLIS SOCIETY (BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB) | C$5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF CALGARY | C$4,000 |
| POPPY FUND | C$4,000 |
| CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY | C$4,000 |
| BROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY'S STREET KIDS SOCIETY | C$4,000 |
| ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA | C$4,000 |
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.
22 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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
- AALCOVE7× · 2018–2024 · C$69k · revenue +75%
- CMCALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS5× · 2017–2023 · C$55k · revenue +53%
- SASALVATION ARMY OF LETHBRIDGE8× · 2017–2024 · C$51k · revenue +665%
Funded once
- BABRENTWOOD'COLLEGE ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2017 · C$100k
- SSTARTSone grant, 2021 · C$5k
- CZCALGARY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYone grant, 2020 · C$5k
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 Jesse Davidson Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
18 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. 18 of the 25 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 ALCOVE ↗
- Who funds CALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
- Who funds SALVATION ARMY OF LETHBRIDGE ↗
- Who funds DEFEAT DUCHENNE CANADA ↗
- Who funds CUPS ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF CALGARY ↗
- Who funds WILDER INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds POPPY FUND ↗
- Who funds ANIMAL RESCUE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA ↗
- Who funds BROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY'S STREET KIDS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds STARS ↗
- Who funds TRELLIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CALGARY ↗
- Who funds THE DOORWAY ↗
- Who funds CALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK ↗
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: Atco Electric Epic · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Lily Street Foundation · Place2Give Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Nickle Family Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Canada Gives
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.