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Edmonton, AB · Public foundation

Cpa Education Foundation

Provide grants to post secondary institutions to support faculty recruitment & retention support innovations in accounting education and research.

C$1.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$332k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$6k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$76k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$787k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$332k
C$81,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$332,200
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$227,000
UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGEC$141,000
ATHABASCA UNIVERSITYC$96,000
MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITYC$81,000
SOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYC$81,000
NORTHERN ALBERTA INSITIUTE OF TECHNOLOGYC$81,000
MACEWAN UNIVERSITYC$80,000
NORQUEST COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$20,000
MEDICINE HAT COLLEGEC$19,500
KEYANO COLLEGEC$18,500
LETHBRIDGE COLLEGEC$18,000
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$3,250
MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONC$2,500
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$8.4M · 17 repeat orgsC$174k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
6

Total granted

C$8.4M
C$154k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+9%

Still filing today

94%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.2M · revenue +27%
  • UO
    University of Alberta
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.6M · revenue ×1,050
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +7%

Funded once

  • 4A
    4-H Alberta
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue +9%
  • NP
    NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNIC
    one grant, 2022 · C$23k · revenue +25%
  • OC
    OLDS COLLEGEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue +35%

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
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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2
Lakehead University

University - Post Secondary Education and Research

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3
Red Deer Polytechnic

All red deer polytechnic (rdp) programs are educational. the polytechnic offers academic upgrading pre-employment apprenticeship certificate diploma and bachelor degree programs.

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4
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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5
Red River College Polytechnic

Red river college polytechnic is recognized globally for excellence in applied learning research and innovation. the mission of red river college polytechnic is to elevate people industry and community in manitoba through future-focused…

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6
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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7
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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8
University of Northern British Columbia

Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies

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9
Nunavut Arctic College

Post-Secondary Education

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10
Board of Governors of the Banff Centre

The Banff Centre operates under the authority of the Post-Secondary Learning Act (Statutes of Alberta 2003 Chapter P-19.5). The Centre provides the public with the opportunity to access a broad range of learning experiences.

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11
College of the Rockies

Provision of scholarships and bursaries to qualified students for advancement in post secondary education of first & second year university studies career technical general interest bachelor of business and nursing contract training on…

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12
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northern Alberta Institute of Technology and the most unlike its peers is Luna Child and Youth Advocacy Centre Ltd.. 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

24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/24
Grantees still filing
22/24
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$2,245,700 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Alberta — C$1,564,750 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE — C$1,129,650 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetATHABASCA UNIVERSITY — C$811,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetMacEwan University — C$680,588 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$675,390 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$489,325 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMount Royal University — C$473,694 over 8y, 0.0% of budget4-H Alberta — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLETHBRIDGE COLLEGE — C$59,250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBOW VALLEY COLLEGE — C$40,483 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICINE HAT COLLEGE — C$39,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKEYANO COLLEGE — C$38,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUNOR ACHIEVEMENT OF NORTHERN ALBERTA & NORTHWEST TERRITORIE — C$36,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA — C$34,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetNORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNIC — C$23,267 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORQUEST COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetOLDS COLLEGE — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEDICINE HAT COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$17,170 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$13,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMount Royal University Foundation — C$12,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetKeyano College Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLakeland College — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUNA CHILD AND YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRE LTD — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

Abc Benefits Corporat…Northwestern Alberta …Central Okanagan Burs…The Calgary FoundationHistory & Heroes Foun…EducationmattersCalgary Flames Founda…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…The AIMCo Foundation …Drayton Valley Commun…Community Foundation …Suncor Energy Foundat…
Abc Benefits Corporation FoundationAB20.1× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · Northwestern Alberta Foundation · Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society · The Calgary Foundation · History & Heroes Foundation · Educationmatters · Calgary Flames Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · The AIMCo Foundation for Financial Education · Drayton Valley Community Foundation · Community Foundation of Central Alberta · Suncor Energy Foundation/Fondation Suncor Energie

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 24 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 2024-03-31, 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 advancing education.

Source object 119211134:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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