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St. Albert, AB · Public foundation

Help a Buddy Fund

We financially support registered charitable animal welfare groups in Alberta by offering monetary grants and joint fundraising efforts to those who have programs in place to support animals in need of long-term rehabilitation of a year or more or those with animals requiring emergency medical care.

C$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$807
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETYC$8,251
MEIKA'S SAFEHOUSE LTDC$2,768
HUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM SOCIETYC$2,550
OUT OF AFRICA ANIMAL SANCTUARY LTDC$2,500
ZOE'S ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETYC$2,179
ANIMAL RESCUE TRANSFER SOCIETYC$2,030
PROVIDING ANIMALS WITH SAFETY FOR LIFE FOUNDATIONC$807
SAVING GRACE ANIMAL SOCIETYC$689
HOPE LIVES HERE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETYC$688
BEAGLE PAWS INCC$684
NANTON &DISTRICT ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETYC$670
THE LAST CHANCE CAT RANCH SOCIETYC$630
ALBERTA DACHSHUND RESCUEC$500
TAILS TO TELL ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER LTDC$250
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$61k · 11 repeat orgsC$16k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +34% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

C$61k
C$14k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+34%

Still filing today

82%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • SC
    SECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$16k · revenue +55%
  • AS
    ARTS senior animal rescue/ animal rescue transfer society
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$14k · revenue +58%
  • MS
    MEIKA'S SAFEHOUSE LTD
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$6k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • NS
    Northern Sky Greyhound Adoption Associationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +57%
  • PA
    Providing Animals With Safety For Life Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +34%
  • PB
    Pit Bulls for Life Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$2k · revenue +300%

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
Your Dog Rescue

Dog rescue and recovery

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2
Adopt-a-Dobe Rescue Society

Animal rescue and adoption

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3
Save Old Souls Senior K-9 Rescue Society

Pet rescue and adoptions Animals are all checked by veterinarians and are then fostered homes until permanent homes are found for them.

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4
Hopeful Tails Dog Rescue
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5
Fur-Ever Homes Rescue Society
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6
Taffy's Legacy Canine Rescue and Rehabilitation

Provides adoptions and veterinary care for pets

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7
Crooked Leg Ranch Society

We rescue and care for abandoned surrendered and homeless animals.

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8
Barc's Rescue

Facilitating dog adoption and owner surrender programs. rescuing of stray abandoned abused or surrendered dogs.

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9
Dogwood Animal Rescue Association

Rescue and adoption of homeless animals. caring for animals until adoption

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10
Country Charm Animal Rescue

Pet adoption pet rescue pet spay and neuter

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11
Almaguin Pet Rescue

Providing shelter and arranging for adoptions for area pets.

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12
Big On Beagles Rescue

Animal care and rescue.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Second Chance Animal Rescue Society and the most unlike its peers is Pitbulls for Life Foundation 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

23 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. 23 of the 25 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
11
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
16/23
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$1.0Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSECOND CHANCE ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY — C$16,131 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetARTS senior animal rescue/ animal rescue transfer society — C$13,543 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetMEIKA'S SAFEHOUSE LTD — C$6,293 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetZOE'S ANIMAL RESCUE SOCIETY — C$5,235 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetNorthern Sky Greyhound Adoption Association — C$3,350 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetHUMANE ANIMAL RESCUE TEAM SOCIETY — C$3,217 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetBeagle Paws Inc. — C$3,119 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetProviding Animals With Safety For Life Foundation — C$2,771 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSaving Grace Animal Society — C$2,710 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetGreater Edmonton Animal Rescue Society (GEARS) — C$2,620 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetPit Bulls for Life Foundation — C$2,350 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHope Lives Here Animal Rescue Society — C$2,003 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetNanton and District Animal Protection Society — C$1,449 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetBear Valley Rescue Society — C$1,322 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE LAST CHANCE CAT RANCH SOCIETY — C$630 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWild Rose Humane Society — C$580 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetALBERTA DACHSHUND RESCUE — C$500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAlberta Animal Rescue Crew Society — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBandaged Paws Animal Rescue Association — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAnimal Haven Rescue League — C$500 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCAWS - Companion Animal Welfare Society — C$335 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTAILS TO TELL ANIMAL RESCUE SHELTER LTD — C$250 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Atco Electric EpicUnited Way of the Alb…Four Feet Companion F…Calgary Spay Neuter A…United Way of Calgary…The Eric S. Margolis …The Edmonton Communit…Petsmart Charities of…Berkeley's Place Foun…Kittyhawk Animal Foun…Boston Pizza Foundati…The Calgary Foundation
Atco Electric EpicAB16.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atco Electric Epic · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Four Feet Companion Foundation · Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. Margolis · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Petsmart Charities of Canada - Charités Petsmart du Canada · Berkeley's Place Foundation · Kittyhawk Animal Foundation · Boston Pizza Foundation · The Calgary 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 25 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 animal welfare.

Source object 776490732:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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