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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Ember Fund

The foundation will manage its core investments raise funds from private sponsors (individual and corporate) acquire property by purchase and keep property invested in order to create income for distribution of funds to fund donations to qualified donees.

C$360k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$25k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$130k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$205k
C$15,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTREC$75,000
TRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACTC$75,000
CUPS CALGARY SOCIETYC$55,000
LITTLE WARRIORSC$27,000
AUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFESKILLS SOCIETYC$20,000
THE SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$20,000
LUNA CHILD AND YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRE LTDC$18,000
TREEHOUSE ADVOCACY CENTRE SOCIETY VANCOUVERC$15,000
OKANAGAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBSC$15,000
BROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY STREET KIDS (BB4CK)C$15,000
INN FROM THE COLD SOCIETYC$5,000
I CAN FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONC$5,000
YCC-YOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARYC$5,000
CONVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVERC$5,000
COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATIONC$5,000
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$525k · 11 repeat orgsC$71k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
6

Total granted

C$525k
C$51k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+46%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TS
    TRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$124k · revenue +333%
  • TA
    THE ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$112k · revenue +25%
  • CC
    CUPS CALGARY SOCIETY
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$83k · revenue +22%

Funded once

  • TB
    THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CALGARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$15k · revenue +46%
  • TS
    TRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT
    one grant, 2022 · C$15k
  • TA
    THE ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k

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
The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary an Alberta Society

The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary aims to prevent harm and neglect to all children and to build strong families through support services respite programs and a crisis nursery in and around Calgary. The programs offered by the…

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2
Beam Foundation

BEAM Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of kids & youth in Calgary Alberta. Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable wellness programs to children and youth who are…

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3
Y.E.S.S.: Youth Emergency Shelter Society of Edmonton

Based in Edmonton Youth Empowerment & Support Services (YESS) provides 24/7 singe-point-of-access to immediate and low-barrier physical mental cultural and emotional health supports and safe places to stay for youth aged 15-21 who are…

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4
Casa Mental Health

CASA Mental Health delivers holistic culturally safe wrap-around mental health services to Albertans aged 3 - 18 and their families. Major programs include Residential and Day Programs that consist of CASA House Preschool Day Programs…

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5
Mountain Plains Family Service Society of Edmonton

Programs that place children referred by childrens services into foster homes and provide support to both the children and the foster family

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6
Calgary Youth Justice Society

Calgary Youth Justice Committees (CYJC): A restorative justice alternative for youth facing minor offenses. Volunteer-led committees work with young offenders and their families to design meaningful community-based consequences emphasizing…

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7
Stepstones for Youth

Stepstones for youth helps unlock the potential of vulnerable children and youth who have experienced trauma and abuse and are living in poverty many of whom are from foster care and the child welfare system. the organization's prevention…

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8
360KIDS Support Services

Ongoing programs: * -residential housing programs - serving youth aged 15-19 who are experiencing a housing crisis and are in need of shelter and care. * -youth drop-in center - serving youth ages 13-26 and providing a safe accessible…

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9
Big Brothers Big Sisters Society of Calgary and Area (Formerly Aunts and Uncles At Large)

Through community and school-based mentoring programs Big Brothers Big Sisters ensures that children and youth facing adversity have the relationships they need to become resilient and realize their full potential. With the support of our…

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10
Even Start for Children Society of Calgary

Early intervention working with high risk preschool children.. working with high risk children and their families

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11
Evenstart for Children Foundation of Calgary

The foundation provides a centre based program for disadvantaged and at risk preschool aged children and their families as well as sponsorship program for children at risk who are referred by the community partners.

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12
Threshold Housing Society

The Society continues to provide long-term transitional housing for youth ages 16-25 at risk of becoming homeless. Two housing programs are offered based on the ability of the individual to live independently. A Life Skills component helps…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Calgary John Howard Society and the most unlike its peers is Foothills Therapeutic Riding Association. 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

19 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. 19 of the 21 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
13/19
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT — C$124,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$112,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCUPS CALGARY SOCIETY — C$83,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLITTLE WARRIORS — C$36,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$35,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S INDEPENDENT LIFESKILLS SOCIETY — C$32,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY STREET KIDS (BB4CK) — C$29,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetLUNA CHILD AND YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRE LTD — C$26,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetTREEHOUSE ADVOCACY CENTRE SOCIETY VANCOUVER — C$20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetOKANAGAN BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS — C$19,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CALGARY FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION — C$8,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYCC-YOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALGARY JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetI CAN FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCONVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTHILLS THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 22% 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…Calgary Shaw Charity …The Calgary FoundationChildren's Hospital A…Hunter Family Foundat…Calgary Flames Founda…The Burns Memorial Fu…The Rotary Club of Ca…Kids Up Front Foundat…Atco Gas Employees' C…Raymond James Canada …The Home Depot Canada…
United Way of Calgary and AreaAB10.4× affinity9 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 · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Children's Hospital Aid Society · Hunter Family Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canada

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 21 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 2024-09-30, 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 780632113:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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