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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Glasswaters Foundation

1) we feed clothe shelter and educate impoverished and disabled people overseas.

C$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$4k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$179k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$321k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$1.2M
C$20,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$4.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILD HAVEN INTERNATIONALC$500,000
HELP LESOTHOC$400,000
INNOVATIVE COMMUNITIES.ORG FOUNDATIONC$280,000
COLUMBIA INSITTUEC$110,000
SENTINEL EDUCATION FOUNDATIONC$75,000
SAVE BLESSING CHILD HOMEC$70,000
VIDEA - ABC BASED INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCAITON ASSOC.C$66,000
ECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETYC$28,000
THE SOCIETY OF HIGH PRIARIE REGIONAL ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COC$20,000
COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORILLIA AND AREAC$20,000
KEEPERS OF THE WATER SOCIETYC$20,000
THE NARWHAL NEWS SOCIETYC$16,000
RAVEN (RESPECTING ABORIGINAL VALUES AND ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS)C$15,000
EYA ENVIRONMENTAL YOUTH ALLIANCE SOCIETYC$15,000
THE BACK DOOR A YOUTH EMPLIOYMENT SOCIETYC$15,000
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.6M · 26 repeat orgsC$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +74% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
31

Total granted

C$2.6M
C$2.3M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+74%
+55%

Still filing today

96%
81%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$494k 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

  • CH
    CHILD HAVEN INTERNATIONAL
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$520k · revenue +17%
  • TS
    THE SOCIETY OF HIGH PRAIRIE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COMMITTEE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$303k · revenue +120% · 98% of their budget
  • IC
    INNOVATIVE COMMUNITIES.ORG FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$284k · revenue +9% · 33% of their budget

Funded once

  • HH
    HORIZON HOUSING SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$2.0M · revenue +25%
  • CW
    CANADA WILD ARTS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$60k · revenue -52%
  • WC
    Western CanadaWilderness Committeegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$27k · revenue +71%

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
Coastal Rivers Conservancy

Coastal Rivers Conservancy (CRC) continued to undertake scientific research to improve knowledge of unique salmon and steelhead populations and habitats within the inner Central Coast of British Columbia. CRC collaborated with government…

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2
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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3
Pacific Wild Alliance

1. save bc wolves - our goal is to ensure that wolves have adequate habitat to continue their critical role as a keystone species. 2. protect pacific herring - we are working with central coast communities to highlight the importance of…

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4
Bc Spaces for Nature Society

Nature Climate Jobs Solution: Helping meet provincial biodiversity and climate targets in tandem with sustainable development. Field Science Stations: Creating a research network that promotes and enhances BC's world-class protected areas…

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5
Endangered Ecosystems Alliance

Educating the public of the current state of the environment and conservation principles. information is provided to the general public through news media engagement social media postings public hikes and presentations in order to increase…

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6
Salmon Coast Society

Salmon coast supports innovative research public education community outreach and ecosystem awareness to achieve lasting conservation measures for the lands and waters of the broughton archipelago and surrounding areas by: - helping…

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7
T Buck Suzuki Environmental Foundation

EDUCATE THE PUBLIC OF BRITISH COLUMBIA AS THE IMPORTANCE OF FISHERIES HABITAT CONDUCT RESEARCH INTO THE INTER-RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN INDUSTRIAL COMMERCIAL AND DOMESTIC GROWTH AND FISHERIES HABITAT. Citizen science project empowering fish…

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8
Ancient Forest Alliance Society

The Ancient Forest Alliance works to protect BCs endangered old-growth forests and to ensure a sustainable value-added second-growth forest industry by building alliance and policy campaigns.

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9
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society - British Columbia

The Marine Conservation Program which plays a leading role in advancing the establishment of a network of marine protected areas (MPAs) across British Columbia. The Northern Terrestrial Conservation Program works collaboratively with…

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10
SkeenaWild Conservation Trust

Assess and report on the environment and ecological systems in the area. the purpose is the advancement of education and other purposes beneficial to the commmunity to make skeena wild salmonoid management a global model of ecological and…

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11
Watershed Watch Salmon Society

Engage with the public on salmon conservation salmon habitat protection and watershed health through our website social media outreach events and public presentations; Provide technical support scientific advice and communications support…

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12
Northwest Institute for Bioregional Research Society

Coordination fo the friends of wild salmon coalition - convening of community groups and first nations on issues related to wild salmon in northwest b.c. - research on wild salmon in northwest watersheds. - public education on issues…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Haven for Ecology Society and the most unlike its peers is Calgary Philharmonic Society. 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

53 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. 53 of the 62 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
52/53
Grantees still filing
39/53
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHORIZON HOUSING SOCIETY — C$2,050,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetCHILD HAVEN INTERNATIONAL — C$520,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetHELP LESOTHO — C$400,000 over 1y, 27% of budgetTHE SOCIETY OF HIGH PRAIRIE ENVIRONMENTAL ACTION COMMITTEE — C$303,450 over 7y, 98% of budgetINNOVATIVE COMMUNITIES.ORG FOUNDATION — C$284,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetCOLUMBIA INSITTUE — C$190,750 over 5y, 9.8% of budgetVIDEA - ABC BASED INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT EDUCAITON ASSOC. — C$139,500 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetSENTINEL EDUCATION FOUNDATION — C$135,000 over 3y, 85% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR NEW ECONOMICS PUBLIC INTEREST RESEARCH ASSO. I — C$131,680 over 2y, 17% of budgetECOJUSTICE CANADA SOCIETY — C$126,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$93,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF ORILLIA — C$80,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetCALGARY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY — C$60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetGEORGIA STRAIT ALLIANCE — C$56,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetAL PURDY A- FRAME ASSOCIATION — C$55,000 over 5y, 60% of budgetWEST COAST ENVIRONMENTAL LAW RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$51,700 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetTHE BACK DOOR A YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY — C$51,200 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetSIERRA CLUB OF BRITISH COLUMBIA FOUNDATION — C$50,345 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetEYA ENVIRONMENTAL YOUTH ALLIANCE SOCIETY — C$36,000 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetRAVEN (RESPECTING ABORIGINAL VALUES AND ENVIRONMENTAL NEEDS) — C$34,250 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetFIRST UNITARIAN CHURCH OF VICTORIA — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetRAINCOAST CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWestern CanadaWilderness Committee — C$27,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetTHE CALGARY JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY — C$23,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$21,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPACIFIC PARKLANDS FOUNDATION — C$21,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCalgary Scope Society — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEMBINA FOUNDATION FOR ENVIORNMENTAL RESEARCH — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHABITAT ACQUISITION TRUST — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetHAIDA GWAII MUSEUM — C$13,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTHE ORCHESTRA SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$11,250 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetINTERNATIONAL ASSOCIATION FOR TRANSFORMATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetMomo Multi-Ability Movement Arts society of Calgary — C$10,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetEARLY MUSIC ALBERTA SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetBVLD AIRSHED MANAGEMENT SOCIETY — C$8,297 over 3y, 26% of budgetBANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOURISH COWICHAN SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetSALAL FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetVALHALLA FOUNDATION FOR ECOLOGY AND SOCIAL JUSTICE — C$4,200 over 2y, 5.0% of budgetSUNSHINE COAST CONSERVATION ASSOCIATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetQUADRA ISLAND CONSERVANCY AND STEWARDSHIP SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetQUADRA ISLAND FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE CAMPBELL RIVER COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCANADIAN COASTAL RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBURNS BOG CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetMOCCASIN FOOTPRINT SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetCHI - ASSOCIATION FOR CONSERVANCY OF HORNBY ISLAND — C$1,500 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCHEAKAMUS FOUNDATION BC ENVIRONMENTAL LEARNING — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.3% 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 Sitka FoundationMakeway FoundationThe Victoria Foundati…Vancity Community Fou…North Family Foundati…The Catherine Donnell…The McLean FoundationVancouver FoundationThe Calgary FoundationBc Government Employe…Nature Canada / Canad…Schein Foundation
The Sitka FoundationBC18.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Sitka Foundation · Makeway Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · North Family Foundation · The Catherine Donnelly Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · Schein 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 62 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 teaching institutions.

Source object 858057987:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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