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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Giles Family Foundation

Making gifts to qualified donees.

C$317k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$90k
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$10k–50k1 grant · C$12k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$305k
C$75,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$710k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FUSESOCIAL WOOD BUFFALO SOCIETYC$90,000
WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATIONC$90,000
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$75,000
CALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$50,000
NORTHERN LIGHTS HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$12,000
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$695k · 6 repeat orgsC$79k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
11

Total granted

C$695k
C$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+2%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$50k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • WB
    WOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$270k · revenue +3%
  • FW
    FUSESOCIAL WOOD BUFFALO SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$270k · revenue +0%
  • CH
    CANADA HELPS (BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS)
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$13k · revenue +2%

Funded once

  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -48%
  • CH
    CALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue -8%
  • TF
    THE FORT MCMURRAY BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUBgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +32%

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
Friends of the Fort Mcmurray Firefighter Charities Fund Society

Raise funds to support community programs such as the wood buffalo food bank waypoints the spca the boys and girls club and the centre of hope

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2
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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3
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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4
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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5
Red Deer Regional Health Foundation

Red deer regional health foundation (rdrhf) raises and disburses funds for program services and the purchase of medical equipment for the red deer regional hospital centre (rdrhc) and other facilities in alberta health services (ahs)…

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6
Northwest Health Foundation

Northwest Health Foundation raises revenue to donate to Alberta Health Services to support operating and capital programs in the northwest area of Alberta

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7
Calgary Rangers Foundation

The foundation was formed to alleviate financial barriers to participating in physical activity for children in need and raises funding for this program.

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8
Calgary Public Library Foundation

The Calgary Public Library Foundation's sole purpose is to raise funds for the Calgary Public Library to enhance programs and services provided to Calgarians.

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9
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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10
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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11
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Wood Buffalo Food Bank Association and the most unlike its peers is Stockmen's Memorial 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

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. 16 of the 18 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
10/16
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 budgetWOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — C$270,000 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFUSESOCIAL WOOD BUFFALO SOCIETY — C$270,000 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$98,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTS REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$43,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCANADA HELPS (BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS) — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FORT MCMURRAY BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPRIMORIS IN SUPPORT OF THE UNITED WAY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOCHRANE ACTIVETTES FOOD BANK — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRE OF HOPE NON-PROFIT SOCIETY OF FORT MCMURRAY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTOCKMEN'S MEMORIAL FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOOD BUFFALO EDUCARE SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFORT MAC HOCKEY BROTHERS FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetROCKY VIEW SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 41 (ECOLE MANACHABAN MIDDLE — C$150 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…Suncor Energy Foundat…Atco Electric EpicUnited Way Fort McMur…The Canadian Red Cros…Bouchier Family Chari…Wood Buffalo Communit…The Calgary FoundationRotary District 5370 …Atco Gas Employees' C…Raymond James Canada …United Way of the Alb…
United Way of Calgary and AreaAB11× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Calgary and Area · Suncor Energy Foundation/Fondation Suncor Energie · Atco Electric Epic · United Way Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo · The Canadian Red Cross Society / la Societe Canadienne de la Croix-Rouge · Bouchier Family Charitable Trust · Wood Buffalo Community Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Rotary District 5370 Charitable Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region

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 18 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 779814409:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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