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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Kanovsky Family Foundation

We fund and carry out activities and programs that are beneficial to the community as a whole in a way which the law regards as charitable.

C$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
37
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 37 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k13 grants · C$49k
  • C$10k–50k16 grants · C$249k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$970k
C$10,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY INCC$200,000
MOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETYC$200,000
UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREAC$200,000
THE IMPACT SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES IN TURMOILC$110,000
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$100,000
KALEO COLLECTIVE LTD.C$60,000
SPORT FOR CALGARY FOUNDATIONC$50,000
THE CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARY AN ALBERTAC$50,000
BRANCH OUT NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATIONC$40,000
THE ESTHER HONENS INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION FOUNDATIONC$23,000
CALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONC$20,000
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$20,000
RENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOUNDATIONC$20,000
STRATHCONA-TWEEDSMUIR SCHOOL FOUNDATIONC$17,500
WILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ALBERTAC$15,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Alberta
C$5.0M
Quebec
C$263k
Ontario
C$222k
British Columbia
C$39k
Manitoba
C$28k
New Brunswick
C$5k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$1k
Saskatchewan
C$500

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.9M · 37 repeat orgsC$680k to everyone else

37 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

37
34

Total granted

C$4.9M
C$499k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$181k 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

  • UO
    University of Calgary
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$625k · revenue +4%
  • IS
    Impact Society
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$545k · revenue +189%
  • MC
    MOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$460k · revenue +18%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · C$250k
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CALGARY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k · revenue +46%
  • UA
    United Active Living Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue -100% · 40% of their budget

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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2
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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3
Calgary Eye Foundation

Foundation supports calgary's ophthalmology program through enhanced education research and program development.

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4
Calgary Health Foundation

Provide support for medical services long term care medical research and education by granting to alberta health services - calgary zone university of calgary medical school and other registered charities providing support of health care…

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5
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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6
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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7
Bc Cancer Foundation

The bc cancer foundation is the fundraising partner of bc cancer and the largest charitable funder of cancer research in this province. we enable donors to make contributions to leading-edge research that has a direct impact on…

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8
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment…

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9
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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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
Alberta Spine Foundation

The objective of the asf is to advance the delivery of spine care in alberta through innovative clinical care focused education and academic collaboration.

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12
The Alberta Lung Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Branch Out Neurological Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

82 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. 82 of the 85 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
82/82
Grantees still filing
50/82
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 budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$1,910,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$625,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetImpact Society — C$545,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetMOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY — C$460,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY INC — C$250,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetNational Music Centre — C$235,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARY AN ALBERTA — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CALGARY FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 6.0% of budgetKALEO COLLECTIVE LTD. — C$92,500 over 3y, 12% of budgetAARC ALBERTA ADOLESCENT RECOVERY CENTRE — C$90,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE V FOUNDATION CANADA — C$77,440 over 7y, 100% of budgetQueens University — C$56,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Active Living Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 40% of budgetSPORT FOR CALGARY FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$49,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetSTRATHCONA-TWEEDSMUIR SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$47,500 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetTHE CALGARY ZOO FOUNDATION — C$41,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetBRANCH OUT NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHelping Families Handle Cancer Foundation — C$37,500 over 7y, 4.9% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation — C$33,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetTHE ESTHER HONENS INTERNATIONAL PIANO COMPETITION FOUNDATION — C$33,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$31,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Canadian Red Cross Society — C$23,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRIME QUADRANT FOUNDATION — C$22,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetWILD SHEEP FOUNDATION ALBERTA — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetUkrainian World Foundation — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAlberta Animal Rescue Crew Society — C$19,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetJOSIAH VENTURE CANADA — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$17,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWellspring Alberta — C$16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCalgary Counselling Centre — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAlberta Conservation Association — C$14,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSAGESSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBoard of Education of School District No.20 — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY INTER - FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLet's Talk Science — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PENTICTON CENTRE FOR EXCEPTIONAL LEARNING SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCENTRAL ALBERTA RESCUE DIVING SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetLAK OF THE WOODS DISTRICT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHAD CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetURBAN SOCIETY FOR ABORIGINAL YOUTH — C$8,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFEAR IS NOT LOVE SOCIETY — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Fraser Institute — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROBINSON OUTREACH AT RIVERCROSS RANCH — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCalgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation — C$5,000 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.

Hunter Family Foundat…Atco Electric EpicViewpoint FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…Cenovus Employee Foun…The Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Carthy FoundationPlace2Give FoundationThe Jeffrey and Maril…Jewish Community Foun…Werklund Foundation
Hunter Family FoundationAB18.7× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hunter Family Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Viewpoint Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Carthy Foundation · Place2Give Foundation · The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · Werklund 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 85 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 844114678:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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