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Calgary, AB · Public foundation

Georgina Sawyer Memorial Foundation

The GEORGINA SAWYER MEMORIAL FOUNDATION is committed to preserving the legacy of georgina sawyer through a broad range of phillanthropic efforts.

C$68k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$3,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WAYSIDE HOUSE VICTORIAC$6,000
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST EDMONTONC$6,000
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUNDC$4,000
CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETYC$4,000
BEAR VALLEY RESCUE SOCIETYC$4,000
CHRISTIAN SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONC$3,500
TORONTO HUMAN SOCIETYC$3,000
MEOW FOUNDATIONC$3,000
FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST WINNIPEGC$3,000
CALGARY WILDLIFE REHABILITATION SOCIETYC$3,000
CALGARY SENIOR PET ASSISTC$3,000
BC CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONC$3,000
ALBERTA ANIMAL RESCUE CREW SOCIETY (AARCS)C$3,000
A HOME FOR HOOVESC$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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$312k · 21 repeat orgsC$49k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
19

Total granted

C$312k
C$37k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+26%

Still filing today

90%
21%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k 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 VICTORIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$56k · revenue +95%
  • FC
    FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST EDMONTON
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$48k · revenue +175%
  • CA
    CS ASSOCIATION OF THE STUDENTS OF EDWARD JONES CSB
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$25k · revenue +258% · 47% of their budget

Funded once

  • KO
    KASH OGOJI (BASKET BALL)
    one grant, 2019 · C$4k
  • CH
    CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$4k
  • CH
    Calgary Humane Society
    one grant, 2017 · C$4k

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 Animal Rescue Society

Rescue abused and abandoned animals provide verterinary care as needed and find loving homes for these animals. provide spay/neuter clinic in remote locations.

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2
Central Alberta Humane Society (for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)

Operates a shelter for companion animals including: adoption surrender rescue rehabilitation pet therapy humane education emergency boarding low income spay/neuter pet food bank

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3
Wild Horses of Alberta Society

We operate a proper rescue and handling facility for wild horses that is safe for the public and where we provide presentations on the history of wild horses in alberta. we rescue gentle and rehome wild horses through our adoption program.…

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4
The Alberta Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

Provide enforcement and education pertaining to the animal protection act.

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5
Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation

Alberta institute for wildlife conservation is committed to the rescue rehabilitation and release of injured and orphaned wildlife. we provide expert advice and education that fosters an appreciation of wildlife. our current programs are -…

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6
The Calgary Zoological Society

Develops operates promotes integrated zoological botanical & prehistoric parks for the combined purpose of conservation research recreation & scientific study.

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7
Caws - Companion Animal Welfare Society

Guardian angel program - temporary care for pets when owners in need of qualified respite. referral by alberta health services provincial or local police social workers or other agencies required. all medical care food supplies transport…

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8
Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton

We provide passionate care for injured and orphand wildlife. w annually treat over 1 400 wildlife patients field over 5 000 wildlife related calls from the community and provide education on human/wildlife interaction to more than 6 000…

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9
Alberta Helping Animals Society

Support successful and enduring human-animal bonds between companion animals and people with low income disabilities and unfortunate circumstances through providing advice advocacy and access to veterinary care and other services.

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10
Second Chance Wildlife Sanctuary

1. We rescue abandoned orphaned and injured animals & adopt out when healthy 2. We provide veterinarian assistance and care 3. We have all animals spayed/neutered inoculated and micro-chipped 4. We provide high school community service…

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11
The Bow Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The Bow Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BVSPCA) operates a No-kill No-cage animal adoption facility in Canmore Alberta. The BVSPCA serves the Bow Valley and surrounding areas including Banff Canmore Kananaskis Lake…

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12
Big Sky Ranch Animal Sanctuary
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Alberta. 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

25 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. 25 of the 43 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
20/25
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 budgetWAYSIDE HOUSE VICTORIA — C$55,500 over 8y, 1.8% of budgetFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST EDMONTON — C$48,000 over 8y, 9.4% of budgetCS ASSOCIATION OF THE STUDENTS OF EDWARD JONES CSB — C$24,500 over 7y, 47% of budgetFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SAINTS WINNIPEG — C$23,000 over 8y, 7.8% of budgetCALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY — C$22,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetC.S. Society, Red Deer — C$16,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetCAMP BOW-ISLE — C$16,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetBEAR VALLEY RESCUE SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCALGARY WILDLIFE REHABILITATION SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetCALGARY SENIOR PET ASSIST — C$9,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA ANIMAL RESCUE CREW SOCIETY (AARCS) — C$8,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetWILDLIFE HEAVEN (MB) — C$6,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN ANIMAL TASK FORCE — C$6,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetMEDICINE HAT SPCA — C$6,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBC CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO HUMAN SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA BIRD OF PREY FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND — C$4,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFELINE RESCUE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA — C$4,000 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetChristian Science National Benevolence Fund — C$4,000 over 3y, 5.0% of budgetSharon House — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetC.S. DUNCAN SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 7.7% of budgetFIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SAINTS WEST VANCOUVER — C$750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA - SUPPORT THE SPORT — 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 WAYSIDE HOUSE VICTORIA ↗
  • Who funds FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SCIENTIST EDMONTON ↗
  • Who funds CS ASSOCIATION OF THE STUDENTS OF EDWARD JONES CSB ↗
  • Who funds FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST SAINTS WINNIPEG ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds C.S. Society, Red Deer ↗
  • Who funds CAMP BOW-ISLE ↗
  • Who funds BEAR VALLEY RESCUE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY WILDLIFE REHABILITATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY SENIOR PET ASSIST ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA ANIMAL RESCUE CREW SOCIETY (AARCS) ↗
  • Who funds WILDLIFE HEAVEN (MB) ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN ANIMAL TASK FORCE ↗
  • Who funds MEDICINE HAT SPCA ↗
  • Who funds BC CONSERVATION FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds TORONTO HUMAN SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA BIRD OF PREY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CHEETAH CONSERVATION FUND ↗
  • Who funds FELINE RESCUE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA ↗
  • Who funds Christian Science National Benevolence Fund ↗
  • Who funds CS Association of the pupils of John Cheal ↗
  • Who funds Sharon House ↗
  • Who funds C.S. DUNCAN SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds FIRST CHURCH OF CHRIST, SAINTS WEST VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA - SUPPORT THE SPORT ↗

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 Eric S. Margolis …First Church of Chris…Cenovus Employee Foun…Four Feet Companion F…Nickle Family Foundat…The Christian Science…The Hop FoundationGordon and Patricia G…The Shawana FoundationOlympia Charitable Fo…Viewpoint FoundationLily Street Foundation
The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. MargolisON13.1× affinity9 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. Margolis · First Church of Christ Scientist · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Four Feet Companion Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · The Christian Science Trust in Canada · The Hop Foundation · Gordon and Patricia Gray Animal Welfare Foundation · The Shawana Foundation · Olympia Charitable Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Lily Street 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 43 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 religion.

Source object 118937366:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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