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Calgary, AB · Public foundation

Educationmatters

Advance and enhance public education in the city of calgary by providing grants to qualified donees involved in public education.

C$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
28
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$2.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 28 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k18 grants · C$65k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$198k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$2.7M
C$7,000
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALGARY BOARD OF EDUCATIONC$2,224,691
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$476,903
MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITYC$48,750
SAINT POLYTECHNICC$42,050
ALBERTA UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTSC$30,150
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$20,500
UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIAC$19,500
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$14,274
MCMASTER UNIVERSITYC$13,132
MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY NEWFOUNDLANDC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$9,500
UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOC$8,900
BON VALLEY COLLEGEC$7,500
CONESTOGA COLLEGEC$7,000
UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGEC$5,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Alberta
C$14M
Ontario
C$209k
British Columbia
C$172k
Quebec
C$45k
Nova Scotia
C$12k
Saskatchewan
C$5k
New Brunswick
C$3k
Prince Edward Island
C$500
Manitoba
C$500

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$12M · 33 repeat orgsC$2.5M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
43

Total granted

C$12M
C$190k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+26%

Still filing today

79%
51%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 23% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.3M 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

  • CB
    CALGARY BOARD OF EDUCATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$7.8M · revenue +16%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.7M · revenue +27%
  • MR
    MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$187k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta
    one grant, 2017 · C$48k · revenue +14%
  • PF
    PARKS FOUNDATION CALGARY
    one grant, 2022 · C$27k
  • O(
    Other (scholarships direct to students)
    one grant, 2017 · C$13k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
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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2
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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3
Thompson Rivers University

Thompson Rivers University operates as an accredited Post Secondary University offering a variety of undergraduate and masters degrees as well as a variety of diplomas certificates and continuing education courses.

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4
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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5
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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6
Yukon University

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

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7
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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8
The University of Winnipeg

Providing education

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9
Concordia University of Edmonton

Offer post-secondary undergraduate and graduate programs upgrading and distance learning programs

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10
Lakehead University

University - Post Secondary Education and Research

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11
Camosun College

Camosun College is a comprehensive public post-secondary institution providing the community with access to knowledge and skills that are relevant to future economic and social development in the region.

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12
Universite De Moncton

Programmes d'enseignement post-secondaire et de recherche

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The University of Lethbridge and the most unlike its peers is University Bible Fellowship At Ryerson. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

51 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. 51 of the 88 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
51/51
Grantees still filing
44/51
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCALGARY BOARD OF EDUCATION — C$7,846,560 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$2,683,017 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY — C$187,050 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSAINT POLYTECHNIC — C$178,416 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$115,250 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Toronto — C$106,550 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$96,255 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS — C$91,100 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBOW VALLEY COLLEGE — C$87,166 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southern Alberta — C$47,500 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$41,908 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Waterloo — C$33,289 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Lethbridge — C$31,450 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Victoria — C$27,182 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$27,122 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMind Fuel — C$11,200 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNORTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$10,450 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMEMORIAL UNIVERSITY NEWFOUNDLAND — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$9,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetQueen's University — C$8,626 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONESTOGA COLLEGE — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Regina — C$6,376 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEmily Carr University of Art & Design — C$6,200 over 2y, 20% of budgetTRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSIT — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY BRIDGE FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH — C$5,051 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$4,822 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Roman Catholic School District — C$4,470 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMC COLLEGE — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Saskatchewan — C$3,479 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRED DEER COLLEGE — C$3,211 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLethbridge College — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Ottawa — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NEW NRUNSWICK — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAmbrose University — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetConcordia University — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYork University — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MARY'S UNIVERSITY — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRyerson University — C$2,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRENT UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCollege of the Rockies — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSimon Fraser University — C$1,800 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$1,250 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetDalhousie University — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOHAWK COLLEGE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$760 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMacEwan University — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCapilano University — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF THE FRASER VALLEY — 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.

  • Who funds CALGARY BOARD OF EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds SAINT POLYTECHNIC ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ↗
  • Who funds University of Toronto ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds BOW VALLEY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta ↗
  • Who funds MCGILL UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds University of Waterloo ↗
  • Who funds University of Lethbridge ↗
  • Who funds University of Victoria ↗
  • Who funds MCMASTER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds Mind Fuel ↗
  • Who funds NORTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY NEWFOUNDLAND ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds Queen's University ↗
  • Who funds CONESTOGA COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds University of Regina ↗
  • Who funds Emily Carr University of Art & Design ↗
  • Who funds TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSIT ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY BRIDGE FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH ↗

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.

The Calgary FoundationCentral Okanagan Burs…Cwb Welding FoundationAbc Benefits Corporat…Cpa Education Foundat…Enactus CanadaSuncor Energy Foundat…The Leonard FoundationNorthwestern Alberta …The Winnipeg Foundati…Calgary Flames Founda…The AIMCo Foundation …
The Calgary FoundationAB15.4× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society · Cwb Welding Foundation · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · Cpa Education Foundation · Enactus Canada · Suncor Energy Foundation/Fondation Suncor Energie · The Leonard Foundation · Northwestern Alberta Foundation · The Winnipeg Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · The AIMCo Foundation for Financial Education

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 88 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 public foundation under foundations advancing education.

Source object 898887005:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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