Edson, AB · Charitable organization
Edson United Church
Worship on the second and fourth Sundays of the Month.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Pine Grove Elementary School (Yellowhead School Division) | C$800 |
| Westhaven Elementary School (Yellowhead School Division) | C$800 |
| Mary Bergeron Elementary School (Yellowhead School Division) | C$800 |
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.
9 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 3 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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
- WSWesthaven School3× · 2021–2023 · C$10k · revenue +6%
- RReflections3× · 2018–2020 · C$2k · revenue +184%
- YEYellowhead Emergency Shelter3× · 2018–2020 · C$1k · revenue +15%
Funded once
- PGPine Grove Schoolone grant, 2023 · C$8k
- EFEdson Food Bankone grant, 2019 · C$2k
- SPShelter Pods (Edson Friendship Centre)one grant, 2020 · C$664
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.
To support the edson & district public library.
Operation of a library within the town of edson
Annual agricultural fair annual ranch rodeo
We operate the galloway station museum and promote the history of the town of edson and surrounding area.
To develop a new cultural facitly in the town of edson and serve edson and yellowhead county. we strive to promote arts & culture in edson and surrounding area.
Weekly worship services bible study/small groups pastoral care (home/hospital visitation) support missionaries local and abroad counselling host and perform weddings funerals and related services. community benevolence support
Beer garden turkey shot
Elkhorn early learning center provides day care in lud of elkhorn and surrounding area.
Transportation services to senior and physically or mentally challenged persons.
Maintain and operate the community hall arena and sports grounds and facilitate certain recreational activities for citizens of the area.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edson Food Bank Society and the most unlike its peers is Reflections - Society for Empowering People to Succeed. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 24 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.
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: The Western Communities Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon
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.