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Calgary, AB · Public foundation

Geshido Foundation

To relieve poverty by providing residential accommodation below market rate and by lowering the cost of food.

C$36k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$26k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$25,775
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$78k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLACE2GIVE FOUNDATIONC$25,775
UMOJA COMMUNITY MOSIACC$10,000
02Your 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.

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Beam Foundation

BEAM Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of kids & youth in Calgary Alberta. Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable wellness programs to children and youth who are…

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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
Community Kitchen Program of Calgary Society

Calgary cooking - teaching low income families to buy and prepare meals at a low price. good food box program - teaching low income families to buy fresh fruit and vegetables at an affordable cost. sprinz around program - provide food to…

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4
Evenstart for Children Foundation of Calgary

The foundation provides a centre based program for disadvantaged and at risk preschool aged children and their families as well as sponsorship program for children at risk who are referred by the community partners.

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5
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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The Boma Calgary Foundation
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7
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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8
Big Brothers Big Sisters Society of Calgary and Area (Formerly Aunts and Uncles At Large)

Through community and school-based mentoring programs Big Brothers Big Sisters ensures that children and youth facing adversity have the relationships they need to become resilient and realize their full potential. With the support of our…

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9
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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10
United Way of Calgary and Area

United way of calgary and area is a 100% local charity that brings together donors corporations agencies and government to solve complex issues and improve lives. we strategically invest in local agencies and collaboratives to create…

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11
Action for Bright Children (Calgary Society)
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12
Calgary Learns Association

The Alberta Government funds the Provincial Community Adult Learning Program (CALP). It is the role of individual CALPs across the province to ensure the delivery of part-time non-formal literacy and foundational learning opportunities to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ycc - Youth Centres of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Calgary Shaw Charity Classic 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

12 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. 12 of the 16 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
10/12
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPLACE2GIVE FOUNDATION — C$25,775 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYCC - YOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCalgary Women's Shelter — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRecovery Acres — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUMOJA COMMUNITY MOSIAC — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADE BY MOMMA — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetProvidence Child Development Society — C$7,908 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrown Bagging For Calgary's Kids (Brakemen Foundation) — C$5,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetStephen's Backpacks for Children In Need Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetMaking Changes Association — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEducation Matters — 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 Calgary FoundationHunter Family Foundat…Calgary Flames Founda…Calgary Shaw Charity …United Way of Calgary…The Burns Memorial Fu…Children's Hospital A…Place2Give FoundationThe Prosser Charitabl…Cenovus Employee Foun…TELUS Friendly Future…BenefAction Foundation
The Calgary FoundationAB10.9× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · Children's Hospital Aid Society · Place2Give Foundation · The Prosser Charitable Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · BenefAction 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 2024-06-30, 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 863841219:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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