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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Clearwater Charitable Foundation

The foundation continues to support various community social education and research charities.

C$273k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$25,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE WOOD'S HOMES FOUNDATIONC$25,000
CALGARY COUNSELLING CENTREC$25,000
HAVEN REFUGEESC$25,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ALBERTA SOCIETYC$25,000
DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARYC$25,000
PARKS FOUNDATION CALGARY (AGENT FOR CITY OF CALGARY)C$25,000
TRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACTC$25,000
THE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATIONC$25,000
CALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$25,000
CALGARY DREAM CENTREC$25,000
RENFREW EDUCATION SERVICES FOUNDATIONC$22,650
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$848k · 13 repeat orgsC$696k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +26% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
24

Total granted

C$848k
C$574k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$123k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • AC
    Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation
    4× · 2017–2023 · C$120k · revenue +65%
  • TS
    TRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$100k · revenue +73%
  • CM
    CALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS
    4× · 2017–2023 · C$95k · revenue +53%

Funded once

  • FS
    FRESH START RECOVERY CENTRE
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue -94%
  • ST
    SHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +27%
  • CH
    Calgary Homeless Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$25k · revenue +7%

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.

1
Calgary Keys to Recovery Society

Calgary Keys to Recovery Society provides housing and case management services to at risk individuals upon their exit from addictions treatment.

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2
Accessible Housing Society

Inclusio - 45 Suite fully accessible supportive living facility. - Bridge to Home - Personal supports for people with limited mobility who are exiting homelessness. - Residential Accessible Design (RAD) - Service which provides…

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3
Canadian Mental Health Association-Calgary Region

Supported living programs in group homes and apartment complexes for people with mental illnesses. Independent living support included bereavement counselling and group support support programs for families of those suffering from mental…

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4
Casa Mental Health

CASA Mental Health delivers holistic culturally safe wrap-around mental health services to Albertans aged 3 - 18 and their families. Major programs include Residential and Day Programs that consist of CASA House Preschool Day Programs…

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5
Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation

Charitable status was received on April 1 2018 and CAHF has been in a set up phase since that time. In this current fiscal year there has been activity related to preparing to deliver charitable activities which can be described as…

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6
Canadian Mental Health Association Alberta South Region

1. Crisis Intervention Services 2. Supported Living 3. Supported employment 4. Volunteer opportunities for persons with mental illness 5. Volunteer support settings 6. Community Housing Outreach

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7
Recovery Acres (Calgary) Society

The program helps people help themselves achieve sobriety employment and integration into the community by providing an effective treatment for alcoholism and drug abuse. the program offers day and long term treatment.

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8
Calgary Society for Persons With Disabilities

Providing residential & community supports to adults with developmental disabilities to reach their greastest potential through quality community living.

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9
Reset Society of Calgary

The Exploitation Intervention & Transition (EXIT) program (housing life skills child-care follow-care-employement prep and support) N/A

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10
Resourceful Futures Community Support Ltd

Provision of support services for adults with developmental disabilities who are eligible for funding from the Alberta government through their Persons with Developmental Disabilities Program. Services include residential supports day…

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11
Her Victory Society Calgary

Outreach Program Housing Program Day Program Follow Care Program

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Seniors Resource Society and the most unlike its peers is Ratanak International. 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

41 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. 41 of the 42 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
41/41
Grantees still filing
29/41
Grew since you first funded

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAlberta Children's Hospital Foundation — C$120,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS — C$95,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetHORIZON HOUSING SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY DROP-IN & REHAB CENTRE SOCIETY — C$69,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ALBERTA SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOOD'S HOMES FOUNDATION — C$48,800 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCUPS CALGARY SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY DREAM CENTRE — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHOSPICE CALGARY SOCIETY — C$40,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFRESH START RECOVERY CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Homeless Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHULL SERVICES — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHAVEN REFUGEES — C$25,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetCALGARY CATHOLIC IMMIGRATION SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Southern Alberta — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDISCOVERY HOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA CALGARY CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetKIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPOTENTIAL PLACE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCALGARY COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHOMESPACE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEGACY PLACE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCatholic Family Services of Calgary — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Bethany Care Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRATANAK INTERNATIONAL — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCALGARY ALPHA HOUSE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBishop O'Byrne Housing Association — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetTRADES GUILD — C$25,000 over 1y, 8.8% of budgetHeritage Park Society — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetProvidence Child Development Society — C$23,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRENFREW EDUCATION SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$22,650 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetInn from the Cold Society — C$22,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLENBOW MUSEUM — C$18,300 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY SENIOR RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Cenovus Employee Foun…The Calgary FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…United Way of Calgary…Calgary Shaw Charity …Atco Electric EpicCalgary Inter-Faith F…Atco Gas Employees' C…Carthy FoundationViewpoint FoundationLily Street FoundationNickle Family Foundat…
Cenovus Employee FoundationAB21.9× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cenovus Employee Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Carthy Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Lily Street Foundation · 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 42 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 833804479:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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