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Red Deer, AB · Public foundation

Community Foundation of Central Alberta

The foundation is a community catalyst committed to growing a legacy which strengthens the quality of life in red deer and central alberta.

C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
86
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$484k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 86 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k61 grants · C$201k
  • C$10k–50k21 grants · C$373k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$299k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$484k
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WASKASOO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION SOCIETYC$483,826
CITY OF LAMCOMBEC$190,000
BRIDGES COMMUNITY LIVINGC$59,240
CENTRAL ALBERTA CHILD ADVOCACY CENTREC$50,000
A BETTER WORLD CANADAC$46,599
ELLIS BIRD FARM LTDC$39,030
CENTRAL ALBERTA SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT CENTREC$37,928
LEGACY PLACE SOCIETYC$30,000
TOGETHERART INITIATIVE - RD FESTIVAL OF PERFORMING ARTSC$20,000
THE CITY OF RED DEERC$16,364
CENTRAL ALBERTA CHILD ADVOCACY CENTREC$15,000
CITY OF LAMCOMBEC$14,903
RED DEER & DISTRICT MUSEUM SOCIETYC$13,113
CITY OF LAMCOMBEC$12,987
CENTRAL ALBERTA SAFE HARBOUR SOCIETYC$12,944
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.1M · 101 repeat orgsC$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

101 repeat relationships — 43 still active in FY2024, 58 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

101
95

Total granted

C$6.1M
C$921k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+15%

Still filing today

89%
77%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$364k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’21’22’23’24
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

  • BC
    BRIDGES COMMUNITY LIVING
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$652k · revenue +30%
  • WE
    WASKASOO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION SOCIETY
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$503k · revenue +35% · 29% of their budget
  • CA
    CENTRAL ALBERTA CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$422k · revenue +710%

Funded once

  • CA
    CANADIAN ADAPTIVE SNOWSPORT ALBERTA ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$79k · revenue -7%
  • I
    IFFSSAgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$75k · revenue +77%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S LINK SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$65k · revenue +26%

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
The Red Deer Public Schools Scholarship Trust
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2
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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3
Alberta University of the Arts

Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.

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4
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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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 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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7
Red Deer Open Doors Housing Foundation
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8
Southern Alberta Land Trust Society

Facilitating the protection of ecologically valuable private land in Southern Alberta in partnership with landowners through the use of conservation easements which are enabled through provincial legislation and further supported through…

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9
Water Matters Society of Alberta

Scholarly research and dissemination of information regarding water conservation and water policy.

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10
The Integrated Post Secondary Education Society of Alberta

Support for adults with developmental disabilities in authentic university experience. support for adults with developmental disabilities finding and maintaining meaningful paid employment. support adults with developmental disabilities…

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11
Mental Health Foundation

The charity's purpose is fund raising for the primary areas of education research innovation and integrated mental health and addiction services. the foundation's mandate supports programs and services throughout the province of alberta.

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12
Lupus Society of Alberta

We provide education and support for lupus patients. their families and friends. we develop public awareness initiatives regarding lupus. we provide educational materials and programs dealing with diagnosis treatements management of the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Foundation of Central Alberta and the most unlike its peers is Burman University. 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

184 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. 184 of the 210 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)
41
Early backer (in before they grew)
176/184
Grantees still filing
119/184
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRIDGES COMMUNITY LIVING — C$652,087 over 6y, 7.4% of budgetWASKASOO ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$503,359 over 4y, 29% of budgetCENTRAL ALBERTA CHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE — C$422,275 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetCITY OF LAMCOMBE — C$244,190 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetRED DEER SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA ASSOCIATION — C$156,263 over 6y, 21% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR RED DEER PUBLIC SCHOOLS — C$135,200 over 6y, 9.2% of budgetELLIS BIRD FARM LTD — C$135,127 over 7y, 6.0% of budgetASPIRE SPECIAL NEEDS RESOURCE CENTRE — C$118,181 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetSHINING MOUNTAINS LIVING COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$115,000 over 2y, 8.9% of budgetRED DEER PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$108,816 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetRed Deer College — C$101,578 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetA BETTER WORLD CANADA — C$96,535 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetRED DEER CATHOLIC REGIONAL DIVISION NO 39 — C$92,738 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ALBERTA SEXUAL ASSAULT SUPPORT CENTRE — C$91,873 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetSCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$79,969 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN ADAPTIVE SNOWSPORT ALBERTA ASSOCIATION — C$78,500 over 1y, 15% of budgetGOLDEN CIRCLE SENIOR RESOURCE CENTRE — C$78,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetRED DEER FESTIVAL OF THE PERFORMING ARTS — C$78,000 over 5y, 52% of budgetIFFSSA — C$75,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED — C$74,417 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS OF RED DEER AND DISTRICT — C$73,268 over 6y, 7.1% of budgetRed Deer & District Museum Society — C$66,066 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY RED DEER REGION SOCIETY — C$65,148 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S LINK SOCIETY — C$65,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetRED DEER NATIVE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetTHE LENDING CUPBOARD SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$59,931 over 4y, 5.8% of budgetRED DEER FAMILY SERVICE BUREAU — C$58,932 over 6y, 2.1% of budgetLEGACY LAND TRUST SOCIETY — C$57,810 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCENTRE FOR SEXUALITY — C$51,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetOLDS & DISTRICT HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$49,500 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetBIOSPHERE INSTITUTE OF THE BOW VALLEY — C$49,300 over 1y, 14% of budgetSPIRITUAL ASSEMBLY OF THE BAHA 'I OF RED DEER — C$48,567 over 5y, 22% of budgetCENTRAL ALBERTA SAFE HARBOUR SOCIETY — C$47,523 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSUBSIDY RIDE PROGRAM FUND — C$41,348 over 7y, 23% of budgetRED DEER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$41,101 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetRED DEER ARTS COUNCIL — C$40,874 over 7y, 10% of budgetBIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF LACOMBE & DISTRICT — C$40,350 over 1y, 14% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$39,833 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetTHE CITY OF RED DEER — C$37,476 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBETHANY CARE FOUNDATION — C$37,084 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetRED DEER REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$36,755 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCHINOOK'S EDGE SCHOOL DIVISION — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL ALBERTA WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY — C$34,928 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRAL ALBERTA HUMANE SOCIETY — C$33,948 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetSHALOM COUNSELLING CENTRE OF ALBERTA — C$33,335 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$32,459 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetRED DEER COMMUNITY BAND SOCIETY — C$31,449 over 7y, 4.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS — C$30,000 over 1y, 30% 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.

United Way of Central…Red Deer Food Bank So…The Board of Trustees…Abc Benefits Corporat…Calgary Flames Founda…Red Deer Twilight Hom…Atco Electric EpicAtco Gas Employees' C…Edmonton Oilers Commu…Allard Foundation Ltd.Red Deer PolytechnicATB Investor Services…
United Way of Central Alberta SocietyAB26.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Central Alberta Society · Red Deer Food Bank Society · The Board of Trustees of Red Deer School Division · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Red Deer Twilight Homes Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Allard Foundation Ltd. · Red Deer Polytechnic · ATB Investor Services 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 210 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 891953143:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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