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Canadian charities

Calgary, AB · Public foundation

Gerald A. Cooper-Key Foundation

Funding qualified donees

C$2.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$70k
  • C$250k+4 grants · C$2.8M
C$650,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$72M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CUPS Calgary SocietyC$1,000,000
Hull ServicesC$700,000
Alexandra Community Health CentreC$650,000
Families MatterC$400,000
Able Sail Association of AlbertaC$70,000
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.

34%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.0M · 4 repeat orgsC$9.6M to everyone else

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
14

Total granted

C$5.0M
C$8.8M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+11%
+40%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$770k 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

  • CC
    CUPS Calgary
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$2.1M · revenue +11%
  • AC
    Alexandra Community Health Centre
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +4%
  • YC
    YWCA Calgary
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$750k · revenue +76%

Funded once

  • TN
    The Nature Conservancy of Canada
    one grant, 2022 · C$2.0M · revenue +10%
  • AC
    ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$1.0M · revenue +20%
  • CC
    Children's Cottage Societygraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$1.0M · revenue +40%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
Calgary Family Therapy Centre

Calgary family therapy centre provides a mental health treatment program for children and their families who are experiencing difficulties. it is a clinical outpatient therapy program that offers specialized services in family therapy. the…

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5
Change Health Alberta

Runs a camp which aims to reconnect famililes and children with healthy active lifestyles through a series of educational programming in alberta

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6
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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7
Calgary Alpha House Society

Calgary alpha house society provides safe and caring environments for individuals whose lives are affected by alcohol and other drug dependencies. our continuum of programs helps connect these individuals with multiple levels of support…

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8
Centre for Autism Services Alberta

Intensive intervention and ECS programs for children youth teens and young adults with autism Family support services Therapeutic and recreational groups for children youth teens and young adults with autism Employment readiness and…

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9
Luna Child and Youth Advocacy Centre Ltd.

Luna’s purpose is to ensure children youth and families impacted by child abuse receive the support they need to heal; to hold offenders accountable; and to build engaged communities where everyone plays a role in preventing abuse so that…

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10
Canadian Mental Health Association-Calgary Region

Supported living programs in group homes and apartment complexes for people with mental illnesses. Independent living support included bereavement counselling and group support support programs for families of those suffering from mental…

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11
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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12
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Young Women's Christian Association and the most unlike its peers is Homes for Heroes Foundation. 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 20 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)
19/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCUPS Calgary — C$2,100,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetThe Nature Conservancy of Canada — C$2,000,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetAlexandra Community Health Centre — C$1,350,000 over 2y, 2.3% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetChildren's Cottage Society — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Southern Alberta Society — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 5.3% of budgetFamilies Matter Society of Calgary — C$800,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetCloser to Home Community Services Society — C$750,000 over 1y, 7.3% of budgetYWCA Calgary — C$750,000 over 2y, 2.9% of budgetHull Services — C$700,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetHomes for Heroes Foundation — C$580,792 over 1y, 39% of budgetInn From the Cold — C$500,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetOPERATION EYESIGHT UNIVERSAL — C$370,002 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCalgary Young Men's Christian Association — C$370,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCalgary Between Friends Club — C$140,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetWellspring Calgary — C$140,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCalgary Silver Linings Foundation — C$140,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetEaster Seals Alberta Society — C$140,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetAble Sail Association of Alberta — C$70,000 over 1y, 39% 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 Calgary FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…Cenovus Employee Foun…United Way of Calgary…Viewpoint FoundationAtco Electric EpicAqueduct FoundationChildren's Hospital A…Calgary Inter-Faith F…Canada GivesUnited Way of the Alb…Calgary Shaw Charity …
The Calgary FoundationAB13.3× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Viewpoint Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Aqueduct Foundation · Children's Hospital Aid Society · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Canada Gives · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic 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 20 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.

Source object 804660611:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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