Calgary, AB · Private foundation
Donmar Foundation
Making charitable donations to other canadian registered charitable organizations
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k10 grants · C$18k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$30k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| JUBILANCE MINISTRIES | C$20,000 |
| NEW WEST SYMPHONY | C$10,000 |
| PRARIE BIBLE INSTITUTE | C$5,000 |
| PROJECT WARMTH | C$5,000 |
| ALBERTA INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION | C$2,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$1,000 |
| ALPHA MINISTRIES | C$1,000 |
| STARS | C$1,000 |
| FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES CANADA | C$1,000 |
| RIVER PARK CHURCH | C$1,000 |
| JUSTICE CENTRE | C$200 |
| OUR DAILY BREAD | C$200 |
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 +63% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
11 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 35% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$31k 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
- PBPRARIE BIBLE INSTITUTE7× · 2017–2024 · C$180k · revenue +28%
- PWPROJECT WARMTH8× · 2017–2024 · C$50k · revenue +157%
- AIALBERTA INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION7× · 2017–2024 · C$24k · revenue +63%
Funded once
- BCBEARSPRAW CHRISTIAN SCHOOLone grant, 2023 · C$100k
- SSST STEPHENS BUILDING FUNDone grant, 2017 · C$50k
- GNGEORGIAN NATIVE AND OUTREACHone grant, 2023 · C$40k · revenue +2% · 41% of their budget
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.
Youth With a Mission Society (Alberta) promotes the gospel of Jesus Christ in Canada and abroad by providing opportunities to learn pray give and go for the cause of world missions. Current programs include; a 20 week discipleship training…
Christian ministries
Yw calgary supports women and their families in meeting their immediate and most basic needs and works directly with them to create positive and long-lasting change in their lives. we believe that healthy women and healthy families lead to…
Develop a common community among our ministry partners leaders and staff for the purpose of fellowship mutual learning and networking to fulfill the purpose of training preaching prayer and taking the Christian message to the City of…
Christian ministry and outreach
Facilitate 2 year bible training program each running 7 months -practical application of training through community outreach -provide other opportunities for fellowship and outreach -evangelism and discipleship
Provide a place of worship family training classes including marriage courses and child rearing provide food for the poor counselling and missions support.
Alberta bible college is a post secondary educational institution awarding four-year degrees two-year diplomas and one-year certificates in christian ministries. a two-year degree completion program in christian leadership or counselling…
The calgary dream centre's programs provide recovery-oriented training vocational training and housing opportunities to those experiencing addiction and homelessness. at the calgary dream centre people are given the resources and…
We engage in and promote Christian mission work in Canada and in foreign countries -We engage in humanitarian mission work in foreign countries including relief of poverty medical relief and operation of a number of daycare facilities. -We…
Youth unlimited is a faith based organization that meets youth where they are at. it is about building genuine relationships supporting youth and loving them without judgement through various support programs.
Arrange monthly meetings for calgary pastors. co-oridinate special events for pastors and leaders in calgary co-ordinate and administrate ministers conferences.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mustard Seed Society and the most unlike its peers is New West Music & Arts Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
31 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.
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 PRARIE BIBLE INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds PROJECT WARMTH ↗
- Who funds GEORGIAN NATIVE AND OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ↗
- Who funds JUBILANCE MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds NEW WEST SYMPHONY ↗
- Who funds INTERACT MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds STRAIGHT TALK MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds CANADA HELPS ↗
- Who funds NORTH AMERICAN BAPTISTS ↗
- Who funds ALPHA MINISTRIES ↗
- Who funds FRIENDSHIP MINISTRIES CANADA ↗
- Who funds WYCLIFFE BIBLE TRANSLATORS ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA GOSPEL OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds ARCHDIOCESE OF VANCOUVER ↗
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: Lily Street Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Abundance Canada · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · St Paul's Anglican Church · Atco Electric Epic · United Way of Calgary and Area · Place2Give Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Christian Stewardship Services · Link Charity Canada Inc · Canadian National Christian 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.