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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Frasnian Foundation

C$204k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$90k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$19k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$45k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$140k
C$20,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Families Matter Society of CalgaryC$90,000
MSF CanadaC$50,000
Calgary Food BankC$25,000
RESET Society of CalgaryC$20,000
ChaliceC$8,064
Canadian Foodgrains BankC$8,000
Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologyC$3,000
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$726k · 11 repeat orgsC$67k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
2

Total granted

C$726k
C$59k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+47%
+51%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$8k 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

  • FM
    Families Matter Society of Calgary
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$226k · revenue +42%
  • MC
    MSF Canada
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$169k · revenue +47%
  • CU
    CALGARY URBAN PROJECT SOCIETY
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$72k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • CF
    CENTRE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$49k · revenue +51%
  • CC
    CALGARY CATHOLIC EDUCATION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · 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 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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2
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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3
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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4
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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5
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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6
Calgary International Film Festival Society

The calgary international film festival (ciff) is a 12 day showcase of up to 200 multi-genre films from canada and over 40 countries. the festival hosts gala events award ceremonies and special presentations. we host a large number of…

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7
Calgary Celiac Association

To provide advice and peer support to the public about Celiac Disease and gluten sensitivity and how to manage the gluten free diet. Other programs include sponsoring research and advice on living a gluten free diet and managing Celiac…

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8
Calgary Counselling Centre

1) Individual couples family and group counselling services to children youth and adults in distress. 2) Provide preventative counselling services for a wide range of personal needs. 3) We educate university students in counselling to…

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9
Calgary Eye Foundation

Foundation supports calgary's ophthalmology program through enhanced education research and program development.

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10
Brown Bagging for Calgary's Kids Society

BB4CK is dedicated to supporting children and youth facing food insecurity by providing nutritious meals that promote healthy growth and development. We collaborate with local partners schools and volunteers to implement sustainable…

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11
Calgary Arts Foundation

Calgary arts foundation was created to generate financial support for the calgary arts sector. the foundation is focused on the arts creative industries and cultural sector to strengthen existing programs that support organizations artists…

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12
Calgary Co-Op Community Foundation

Relief of poverty through food security and other supports for vulnerable populations including at-risk youth seniors and others in the community; Advancement of education through scholarships bursaries and grants Providing benefit to the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rc Diocese of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. 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

13 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. 13 of the 14 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
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 budgetFamilies Matter Society of Calgary — C$225,500 over 5y, 3.0% of budgetMSF Canada — C$169,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY URBAN PROJECT SOCIETY — C$72,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetThe Fraser Institute — C$62,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetChalice — C$62,032 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — C$49,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRESET SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCalgary Food Bank — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Catholic Education Foundation — C$28,500 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetFEED THE HUNGRY — C$15,639 over 6y, 3.7% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSouthern Alberta Institute of Technology — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Foodgrains Bank — C$8,000 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.

United Way of Calgary…Atco Electric EpicThe Calgary FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
United Way of Calgary and AreaAB8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Electric Epic · The Calgary Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.

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 14 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 834214801:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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