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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

First Church of Christ Scientist

1) conducting church services including sunday school online and in person 2) operating a reading room (bookstore/library) for the public 3) sponsoring public lectures and workshops on the bible spirituality and spiritual healing by qualified speakers online 4) providing funding for christian science society sanitarium and…

C$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$73k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$31k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$66k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$73k
C$7,500
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAUSED BOW ISLEC$73,000
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY EDMONTONC$30,000
CALGARY FOOD BANKC$15,000
HOME SPACE SOCIETYC$11,000
MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEEC$10,000
VETERAN'S FOOD BANK OF CALGARYC$7,500
WOMEN IN NEED SOCIETYC$6,000
INN FROM THE COLDC$6,000
CALGARY MEALS ON WHEELSC$6,000
CANADIAN RED CROSSC$5,000
WAYSIDE HOUSEC$295
FAITH AND SPIRITUALITY CENTREC$100
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$981k · 17 repeat orgsC$148k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
8

Total granted

C$981k
C$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+31%

Still filing today

88%
63%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$21k 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

  • WH
    WAYSIDE HOUSE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$456k · revenue +95%
  • CB
    CAUSED BOW ISLE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$208k · revenue +209%
  • CS
    CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY EDMONTON
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$80k · revenue +175%

Funded once

  • WH
    WAYSIDE HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k
  • SH
    Sharon Housegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$18k · revenue +31%
  • CS
    Christian Science National Benevolene Fund
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k

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
Calgary Drop-in & Rehab Centre Society

The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre provides access to a spectrum of care that supports adults at risk of homelessness to the most independent living possible - including various emergency shelter programs and services and affordable and…

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2
Calgary Youth Science Fair Society

Organizes and hosts the Calgary Youth Science Fair in April each year. Note that due to Covid 19 restrictions the fair was held virtually in 2021 and 2022. We returned to an in person fair in 2023 and continued to host the fair in person…

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3
Calgary Science Centre Society

To developed promote and operate a science centre for education enjoyment and participation in science technology and the arts. this is accomplished through education program and exhibitions in calgary.

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4
Calgary Young Women's Christian Association

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…

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5
Calgary Keys to Recovery Society

Calgary Keys to Recovery Society provides housing and case management services to at risk individuals upon their exit from addictions treatment.

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6
Cups Calgary Society

CUPS supports Calgarians impacted by poverty trauma and systemic marginalization with a unique integrated approach to care. We empower people to work holistically to create and achieve goals that support their well-being and build…

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7
Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society

Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society supplies funding primarily to Qualified Donees that support spay and neuter assistance programs in Calgary and surrounding areas.

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8
Bild Calgary Region Foundation

BILD Calgary Region Foundation was incorporated in 1986 with a mandate; to aid the community in which members of BILD Calgary Region work and live by supporting shelter related charitable initiatives education opportunities and shelter…

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9
Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation

Charitable status was received on April 1 2018 and CAHF has been in a set up phase since that time. In this current fiscal year there has been activity related to preparing to deliver charitable activities which can be described as…

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10
Fear Is Not Love Society

CWES operates a 50-bed first stage emergency shelter for women and children fleeing domestic violence. The clients are provided with free lodging food clothing and incidentals for up to 21 days. After this period assistance is provided in…

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11
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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12
The Mustard Seed Society

The mustard seed is a christian charitable organization that is servicing vulnerable citizens in alberta and british columbia. in calgary the charity offers an expansive range of innovative programs and services including education and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jesus Loves You Society of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Friends of Principia in Canadatrust C/O National Trust Compa. 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

22 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. 22 of the 27 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWAYSIDE HOUSE — C$456,295 over 7y, 18% of budgetCAUSED BOW ISLE — C$208,000 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetCHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY EDMONTON — C$80,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$33,300 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY RED DEER — C$30,000 over 5y, 9.1% of budgetChristian Science National Benevolence Fund — C$27,500 over 4y, 41% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD — C$26,500 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$21,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSharon House — C$18,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetFRIENDS OF PRINCIPIA IN CANADA — C$17,000 over 5y, 3.9% of budgetVETERAN'S FOOD BANK OF CALGARY — C$15,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS — C$14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCARE CANADA — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Church of Christ, Scientist (West Vancouver) — C$11,500 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetHOME SPACE SOCIETY — C$11,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBLUE SEA PHILANTHROPY — C$4,144 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWomen in Need Society — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION — C$1,980 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJesus Loves You Society — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$50 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 WAYSIDE HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds CAUSED BOW ISLE ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY EDMONTON ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN SCIENCE SOCIETY RED DEER ↗
  • Who funds Christian Science National Benevolence Fund ↗
  • Who funds INN FROM THE COLD ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Red Cross ↗
  • Who funds Sharon House ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDS OF PRINCIPIA IN CANADA ↗
  • Who funds VETERAN'S FOOD BANK OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS ↗
  • Who funds CARE CANADA ↗
  • Who funds First Church of Christ, Scientist (West Vancouver) ↗
  • Who funds HOME SPACE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds MENNONITE CENTRAL COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds BLUE SEA PHILANTHROPY ↗
  • Who funds Women in Need Society ↗
  • Who funds THE CALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADA HELPS ↗
  • Who funds Jesus Loves You Society ↗
  • Who funds University of Calgary ↗

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.

Georgina Sawyer Memor…The Calgary FoundationLily Street FoundationPlace2Give FoundationCalgary Shaw Charity …Atco Gas Employees' C…The United Church of …United Way of Calgary…Atco Electric EpicAbundance CanadaCanada GivesPrivate Giving Founda…
Georgina Sawyer Memorial FoundationAB11.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 10 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Georgina Sawyer Memorial Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Lily Street Foundation · Place2Give Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du Canada · United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Electric Epic · Abundance Canada · Canada Gives · Private Giving 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.

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 27 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 charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 107385833:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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