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Edmonton, AB · Private foundation

Four M Charitable Foundation

Provide funding to qualified donees for medical education sports community and religious endeavors.

C$95k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$90k
C$25,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$493k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DEPAULC$25,000
DREAMS FOR KIDS - CONQUER HUNGER FUNDC$25,000
BOYLE STREET SERVICE SOCIETYC$25,000
RIDEAU HALL FOUNDATIONC$15,000
KIDS WITH CANCERC$2,500
STAR OF THE NORTHC$2,500
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$808k · 7 repeat orgsC$131k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
7

Total granted

C$808k
C$104k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$28k 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

  • CI
    CONCANAN INC.
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$300k · revenue +122%
  • KW
    Kids with Cancer
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$216k · revenue +18%
  • UW
    United Way
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$75k · revenue +25%

Funded once

  • EF
    EDMONTON FOOD BANKgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k · revenue +25%
  • CS
    CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +4%
  • JC
    JUSTICE CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -8%

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 Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment…

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2
Edmonton Realtors' Charitable Foundation

The foundation provides support to those in need by working with charities involved in: shelter homelessness hunger crime prevention and special projects.

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3
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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4
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Northern Alberta, an Alberta Society

Ronald McDonald House Charities Alberta supports families seeking vital medical treatment for their seriously ill or injured child. Our warm, compassionate Houses provide a home-away-from home for families who need to travel for medical…

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5
The Calgary Foundation

The Calgary Foundation carried out its charitable purpose through the ongoing administration of its granting programs. While the Foundation provides grants to support charitable activity across the entire sector it has a particular focus…

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6
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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7
Catholic Charities Society

Promotes sponsors social services programs to improve the quality of life for individuals and families throughout central alberta; aquisition of properties to accommodate physically and/or mentally challenged adults or children.

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8
Community Foundation of Central Alberta

The foundation is a community catalyst committed to growing a legacy which strengthens the quality of life in red deer and central alberta. activities in support of their mission include: working with donors to enable them to meet their…

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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
Calgary Homeless Foundation

Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness. Providing grants to qualified donees and other community organizations to assist individuals experiencing homelessness…

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11
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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12
Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation

The alberta children's hospital foundation raises funds for excellence in child health research and family centred care. funding is provided to alberta health services and university of calgary for advanced pediatric research specialized…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edmonton Catholic Schools Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Star of the North Retreat House. 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

16 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/16
Grantees still filing
9/16
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 budgetCONCANAN INC. — C$300,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetKids with Cancer — C$215,840 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetSIGN OF HOPE — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetUnited Way — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEDMONTON CATHOLIC SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$70,000 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetEDMONTON FOOD BANK — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY OF SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL - EDMONTON CENTRAL COUNCIL — C$50,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetCATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICES — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYLE STREET SERVICE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOUNDATION OF ST JOSEPH SEMINARY — C$22,400 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCASA FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetFriends of Jasper National Park Association — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetROTARY CLUB SOUTH EDMONTON — C$2,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetSTAR OF THE NORTH — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — C$1,000 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.

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 Edmonton Communit…Frank J. Flaman Found…Edmonton Oilers Commu…Atco Electric EpicUnited Way of the Alb…Soeurs de la Charite …Butler Family Foundat…Telus Employees Chari…The Alberta Knights o…The John H and Marie …Royal Alexandra Hospi…Melton Foundation
The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv ActAB13.3× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Frank J. Flaman Foundation · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Soeurs de la Charite de Notre Dame D'Evron · Butler Family Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · The Alberta Knights of Columbus Charitable Foundation · The John H and Marie Koziak Family Foundation · Royal Alexandra Hospital Employees Charitable Donation Fund · Melton 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 16 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 2024-11-30, 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 887017143:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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