Calgary, AB · Private foundation
Davrick Family Foundation
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Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HART | C$5,000 |
| WORLD VISION | C$5,000 |
| FEARS IS NOT LOVE | C$5,000 |
| MAIN SPRINGS | C$5,000 |
| SAMARITAN PURSE | C$5,000 |
| MSF CANADA | C$5,000 |
| CHILDRENS HOSPITAL AID SOCIETY | C$600 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 67% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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
- HHART4× · 2020–2024 · C$23k · revenue +24%
- SPSAMARITAN PURSE6× · 2017–2024 · C$20k · revenue +26%
- ACALBERTA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL6× · 2019–2024 · C$16k · revenue +20%
Funded once
- RCRED CROSSone grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue -47%
- DCDREAM CENTRE-CALGARYone grant, 2021 · C$3k
- CHCALGARY HUMANE SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue -23%
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.
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…
Partners In Health Canada works in partnership with sister organizations in settings of poverty around the world to bring health and social justice to vulnerable and marginalized communities. We deliver high quality comprehensive health…
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
Amref health africa in canada ensures access to good health for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in africa. with their active involvement we develop and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to critical health…
Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness. Providing grants to qualified donees and other community organizations to assist individuals experiencing homelessness…
Habitat for Humanity Canada' brings communities together to help families build strength stability and independence through affordable homeownership. In fulfilling this mission we provide resources training and ongoing support to help…
The Humanitarian Coalition contributes towards alleviating acute human suffering among survivors of humanitarian disasters. As a joint Canadian approach to humanitarian response the Humanitarian Coalition is a 'one-stop-shop' for all…
Humanitarian relief work in Canada and around the world. Assist victims of natural disasters including flood famines earthquakes illness or any other misfortune of life. Help relieve poverty and deprivation that may exist any where in the…
Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…
Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…
Ronald McDonald House Charities Alberta supports families seeking vital medical treatment for their seriously ill or injured child. Our warm, compassionate Houses provide a home-away-from home for families who need to travel for medical…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Samaritan's Purse - Canada and the most unlike its peers is Centre Street Church. 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 31 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 HART ↗
- Who funds SAMARITAN PURSE ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL ↗
- Who funds MUSTARD SEED ↗
- Who funds DOCTORS WITHOUT BOARDERS ↗
- Who funds RED CROSS ↗
- Who funds OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds Fresh Start Recovery Centre ↗
- Who funds CSC CHURCH ↗
- Who funds MAIN SPRINGS ↗
- Who funds WORLD VISION ↗
- Who funds FEARS IS NOT LOVE ↗
- Who funds CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds CALGARY DREAM CENTRE ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds MULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SICK KIDS FOUNDATION - CANCER ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
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 · The Calgary Foundation · The Hearn Family Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · United Way of Calgary and Area · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Abundance Canada · Aqueduct 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.