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Lethbridge, AB · Public foundation

Lethbridge Community Foundation

The community foundation manages charitable gifts from donors in permanent income-earning endowment funds and distributes the investment income earned as grants to registered charities throughout the region of southwestern alberta.

C$1.6M
Granted FY2024still arriving
144
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$87k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 144 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k86 grants · C$331k
  • C$10k–50k55 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$227k
C$7,500
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$46M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGEC$86,830
WOODS HOMESC$85,000
TOWN OF VULCANC$55,200
TOWN OF FORT MACLEODC$47,700
LETHBRIDGE SCHOOL DRISTRICT #52C$43,581
CANADIAN VOLLEYBALL ASSOCIATIONC$40,000
CLARESHOLM AND DISTRICT HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$34,600
NEW WEST THEATRE SOCIETYC$34,000
LETHBRIDGE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATIONC$32,000
SAFE HAVEN WOMEN'S SHELTER SOCIETYC$30,000
FRIENDS OF TABER LITERACY ASSOCIATIONC$30,000
CLARESHOLM SENIOR CITIZENS DROP-IN CENTREC$28,000
LETHBRIDGE SENIOR CITIZENS ORGANIZATIONC$25,900
LETHBRIDGE & REGION COMMUNITY HOUSING CORPORATIONC$25,000
CAREERS THE NEXT GENERATION FOUNDATIONC$25,000
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.

77%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.7M · 125 repeat orgsC$1.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

125 repeat relationships — 83 still active in FY2024, 42 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

125
93

Total granted

C$4.7M
C$873k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+22%

Still filing today

75%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$506k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’24
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 LETHBRIDGE
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$255k · revenue +7%
  • LS
    LETHBRIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 51
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$238k · revenue +21%
  • YL
    YWCA LETHBRIDGE
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$167k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • FO
    FRIENDS OF MEDALTA
    one grant, 2020 · C$51k · revenue +14%
  • SA
    SOUTHERN ALBERTA MEDIC AIR SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$30k · revenue +83%
  • CA
    Chinook Arch Regional Library System
    one grant, 2018 · C$26k

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
Southern Alberta Land Trust Society

Facilitating the protection of ecologically valuable private land in Southern Alberta in partnership with landowners through the use of conservation easements which are enabled through provincial legislation and further supported through…

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2
Lethbridge Community College Foundation
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3
Southern Alberta Society for the Handicapped

Rehabilitation services for adults with developmental disabilities. Services consist of day and residential programs in Magrath Raymond Welling and Lethbridge Alberta

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4
Wild Horses of Alberta Society

We operate a proper rescue and handling facility for wild horses that is safe for the public and where we provide presentations on the history of wild horses in alberta. we rescue gentle and rehome wild horses through our adoption program.…

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5
Alberta Helping Animals Society

Support successful and enduring human-animal bonds between companion animals and people with low income disabilities and unfortunate circumstances through providing advice advocacy and access to veterinary care and other services.

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6
Alberta Trailnet Society

Promoting a trail network including the Trans Canada Trail connecting all Albertans. We support local and regional groups in their trail-building activities. We promote active living through the development and use of sustainable…

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7
Stettler Town and Country Museum

The society operates and maintains a museum depicting the history of east central alberta

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8
Alberta Public Health Association

Provide public health information to members of the public provide public health professional and student engagement opportunities in public health and promote health protection initiatives

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9
Central Alberta Humane Society (for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)

Operates a shelter for companion animals including: adoption surrender rescue rehabilitation pet therapy humane education emergency boarding low income spay/neuter pet food bank

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10
Lupus Society of Alberta

We provide education and support for lupus patients. their families and friends. we develop public awareness initiatives regarding lupus. we provide educational materials and programs dealing with diagnosis treatements management of the…

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11
Alberta Farmland Trust

To promote agriculture by preserving and protecting alberta farmland.

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12
Theatre Alberta Society

Theatre Alberta Society is a provincial arts service organization that proudly serves theatre artists enthusiasts students educators and community and professional theatre companies from across Alberta. We are dedicated to encouraging the…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Lethbridge Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Vauxhall Public Library. 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

218 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. 218 of the 275 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.

14
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
52
Early backer (in before they grew)
211/218
Grantees still filing
131/218
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE — C$254,890 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetLETHBRIDGE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 51 — C$237,560 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA LETHBRIDGE — C$167,422 over 5y, 4.3% of budgetLETHBRIDGE COLLEGE — C$135,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHoly Spirit Roman Catholic Separate Regional Division No. 4 — C$97,725 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetOPOKAA'SIN EARLY INTERVENTION SOCIETY — C$90,500 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetWOODS HOMES — C$85,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetAlberta Birds of Prey Foundation — C$81,713 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetLETHBRIDGE FAMILY SERVICES — C$79,912 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCLARESHOLM SENIORS DROP-IN CENTRE — C$75,822 over 3y, 32% of budgetHORIZON SCHOOL DIVISION #67 — C$75,685 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLETHBRIDGE THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION — C$71,650 over 3y, 6.2% of budgetLIVINGSTONE RANGE SCHOOL DIVISION — C$69,820 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLETHBRIDGE SENIOR CITIZENS ORGANIZATION — C$69,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNEW WEST THEATRE SOCIETY — C$68,085 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetBRIDGES OF HOPE INTERNATIONAL — C$65,700 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLD CLUB OF THE FOOTHILLS — C$64,240 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetWESTWIND SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 74 — C$63,300 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetLETHBRIDGE FOOD BANK — C$62,606 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetSAFE HAVEN WOMEN'S SHELTER SOCIETY — C$62,481 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD BANK — C$58,116 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SOUTHER ALBERTA SELF-HELP ASSOCIATION — C$56,264 over 3y, 4.9% of budgetLETHBRIDGE SYMPHONY ASSOCIATION — C$53,387 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetWILD ROSE COMMUNITY CONNECTIONS — C$50,976 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetShock Trauma Air Rescue Service Foundation — C$50,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF MEDALTA — C$50,600 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNAPI FRIENDSHIP ASSOCIATION — C$49,566 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetLETHBRIDGE AND COMMUNITY ADDICTION SOCIETY — C$46,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetRANCHLANDS VICTIM SERVICES SOCIETY — C$46,249 over 2y, 17% of budgetCLARESHOLM AND DISTRICT HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$45,200 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetNORDBRIDGE SENIOR CITIZENS ASSOCIATION — C$45,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetFRIENDS OF TABER LITERACY ASSOCIATION — C$45,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetSOUTHERN ALBERTA ART GALLERY — C$42,280 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetRowan House Society — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSOUTHERN ALBERTA ETHNIC ASSOCIATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetBLACKFOOT FAMILY LODGE SOCIETY — C$38,239 over 2y, 11% of budgetSHINAH HOUSE FOUNDATION — C$37,400 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetLETHBRIDGE YOUTH FOUNDATION — C$37,250 over 3y, 2.1% of budgetTABER FOOD BANK — C$37,000 over 4y, 4.4% of budgetPALLISER REGIONAL SCHOOL DIVISION — C$36,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTREETS ALIVE FAMILY SUPPORT ASSOCIATION — C$36,200 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetLethbridge Family Services — C$35,450 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLETHBRIDGE & DISTRICT HUMANE SOCIETY — C$34,816 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetKAINAI FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$33,500 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE LETHBRIDGE & DISTRICT JAPANESE GARDEN SOCIETY — C$32,692 over 4y, 6.1% of budgetCROSSROADS COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$32,000 over 4y, 8.4% of budgetFAMILY CENTRE SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA — C$31,713 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetThe Canadian Mental Health Association, Alberta South Region — C$31,319 over 4y, 0.7% 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 Lethbri…The Holy Spirit Roman…Atco Gas Employees' C…Parent/Preschool Prog…Food Banks Alberta As…The University of Let…Abc Benefits Corporat…Calgary Flames Founda…Kids Up Front Foundat…Maranatha Christian R…Rc Diocese of CalgaryAtco Electric Epic
United Way of Lethbridge & South Western Alberta SocietyAB30.2× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Lethbridge & South Western Alberta Society · The Holy Spirit Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Parent/Preschool Program Association of Southwestern Alberta · Food Banks Alberta Association · The University of Lethbridge · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Maranatha Christian Reformed Church of Lethbridge · Rc Diocese of Calgary · Atco Electric Epic

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 275 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 foundations.

Source object 119018349:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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