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Strathmore, AB · Private foundation

David and Penny Wilson Family Foundation

The foundation operates exclusively for charitable purposes including the advancement of religion advancement of education the relief of poverty and purposes benefical to the community as a whole.

C$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$325k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$80k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$350k
  • C$250k+5 grants · C$1.4M
C$150,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$23M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATIONC$325,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$275,000
WHEATLAND & AREA HOSPICE SOCIETYC$250,000
WORLD VISION CANADAC$250,000
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$250,000
CALGARY DROP-IN CENTREC$150,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSC$150,000
WHEATLAND COUNTY FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$50,000
DISCOVERY HOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETYC$20,000
HOPE BRIDGES SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE AND CONTINUED LEARNINGC$20,000
CALGARY VETERANS SERVICES SOCIETYC$20,000
THE STRATHMORE & WHEATLAND COUNTY CHRISTMASC$20,000
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$7.2M · 15 repeat orgsC$133k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
10

Total granted

C$7.2M
C$133k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • TM
    THE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +120%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue ×145 · 67% of their budget
  • AC
    ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +65%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +4%
  • B
    B2TEN
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k
  • KC
    KidSport Calgary
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k

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 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
Calgary Health Foundation

Provide support for medical services long term care medical research and education by granting to alberta health services - calgary zone university of calgary medical school and other registered charities providing support of health care…

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3
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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4
Homespace Society

Homespace society is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to creatively apply expertise to increase and manage the number of affordable and specialized housing units in calgary

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5
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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6
Hospice Calgary Foundation
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7
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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8
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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9
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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10
Canadian Cancer Society - SociÉTÉ Canadienne Du Cancer

The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We raise funds to fuel the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer across Canada and for all…

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11
Hearts & Hammers Society

The hearts and hammers society is a non-profit organization based in calgary alberta dedicated to providing renovations for locals in need with mobility challenges.

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12
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Veterans Services Society and the most unlike its peers is Jeunesse Classique Ballet Society. 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

22 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. 22 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.

3
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
20/22
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$1,325,000 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$1,225,000 over 7y, 67% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,150,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD VISION CANADA — C$1,095,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWHEATLAND & AREA HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$1,000,000 over 7y, 43% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$412,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRESOLVE CAMPAIGN — C$410,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY DROP-IN CENTRE — C$175,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWHEATLAND COUNTY FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$120,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetHOPE BRIDGES SOCIETY FOR CREATIVE AND CONTINUED LEARNING — C$75,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetDISCOVERY HOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETY — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE STRATHMORE & WHEATLAND COUNTY CHRISTMAS — C$55,000 over 7y, 12% of budgetDentistry For All — C$32,500 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetCALGARY VETERANS SERVICES SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Cancer Foundation — C$17,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBUCKSPRING FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetJeunesse Classique Ballet Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetHEART & STROKE — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY COMMUNITIES AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE SOCIETY — C$5,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBETERANS FOOD BANK OF CALGARY — C$5,200 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.

United Way of Calgary…Place2Give FoundationAtco Electric EpicThe Calgary FoundationHunter Family Foundat…Calgary Shaw Charity …Cenovus Employee Foun…Charitable Gift Funds…Raymond James Canada …Aqueduct FoundationVancouver FoundationBenefAction Foundation
United Way of Calgary and AreaAB10.8× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Calgary and Area · Place2Give Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · The Calgary Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · BenefAction 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 25 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 801021353:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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