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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Lily Street Foundation

To disburse funds and property to qualified donees as defined under the income tax act and/or to advance education through th provision of scholarships.

C$5.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
64
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 64 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k30 grants · C$65k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$170k
  • C$50k–250k15 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$250k+8 grants · C$4.0M
C$10,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$58M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$2,000,000
SASKATCHEWAN POLYTECHNICC$500,000
MAYO CLINICC$277,100
SASKATCHEWAN POLYTECHNICC$250,000
YMCA SASKATOON INC.C$250,000
UNITED WAY REGINAC$250,000
UNITED WAY OF SASKATOON & AREAC$250,000
UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREAC$250,000
GLOBE THEATREC$120,000
REGINA & DISTRICT FOOD BANK INC.C$100,000
CALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$100,000
DAILY BREAD FOOD BANKC$100,000
THE SALVATION ARMY - REGINA HAVEN OF HOPE CHURCHC$100,000
SASKATOON FOOD BANK INCORPORATEDC$100,000
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$36M · 61 repeat orgsC$6.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +28% for the ones you funded once.

61 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 27 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
107

Total granted

C$36M
C$6.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+28%

Still filing today

98%
91%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$669k 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

  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATACHEWAN
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$6.9M · revenue +24%
  • YW
    YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$5.0M · revenue +68% · 41% of their budget
  • SP
    SASKATCHEWAN POLYTECHNIC
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$2.8M · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • BF
    BUH FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$1.0M · revenue -22%
  • SF
    STARS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$1.0M
  • SP
    SASKATOON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION'S EARLY LEARNINGgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$500k · revenue +40%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
Beam Foundation

BEAM Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of kids & youth in Calgary Alberta. Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable wellness programs to children and youth who are…

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7
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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8
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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9
Saskatchewan Health Research Foundation

We run funding competitions that provide: 1. Grants to new university faculty members to start their health research programs; 2. Grants for advanced research training in health areas;; 3. Support for Researchers to exchange ideas and work…

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10
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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11
Hockey Alberta Foundation

The hockey alberta foundation supports numerous charities/qualified donees to assist in helping kids families and communities access equipment programs mentorship and leadership development with the goal of providing opportunities for kids…

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12
Mental Health Foundation

The charity's purpose is fund raising for the primary areas of education research innovation and integrated mental health and addiction services. the foundation's mandate supports programs and services throughout the province of alberta.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Seniors Resource Society and the most unlike its peers is Thousand Islands Boat Museum. 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

185 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. 185 of the 195 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
37
Early backer (in before they grew)
182/185
Grantees still filing
122/185
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF SASKATACHEWAN — C$6,895,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$5,002,500 over 2y, 41% of budgetSASKATCHEWAN POLYTECHNIC — C$2,750,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF REGINA — C$1,895,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF SASKATOON — C$1,595,000 over 7y, 11% of budgetUNITED WAY OF REGINA — C$1,575,000 over 7y, 8.3% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$1,500,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetREGINA & DISTRICT FOOD BANK INC. — C$1,420,000 over 5y, 18% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$1,410,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSASKATOON FOOD BANK INCORPORATED — C$1,350,000 over 5y, 12% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAILTH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$1,270,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetBUH FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetST. PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$610,000 over 4y, 3.1% of budgetCANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$600,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE FOUNDATION — C$600,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetArt Gallery of Saskatchewan — C$600,000 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetMACKENZIE ART GALLERY INCORPORATED — C$600,000 over 4y, 4.2% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$560,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY - REGINA HAVEN OF HOPE CHURCH — C$550,000 over 8y, 20% of budgetGLOBE THEATRE SOCIETY — C$540,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetSASKATOON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION'S EARLY LEARNING — C$500,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetGLENBOW - ALBERTA INSTITUTE — C$500,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetUNITED NATIONS WORLD FOOD PROGRAMME — C$500,000 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetHOSPITALS FOUNDATION OF REGINA — C$490,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF SASKATCHEWAN INC. — C$476,000 over 4y, 6.5% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$450,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WASKESIU FOUNDATION — C$394,155 over 7y, 41% of budgetVICTORIA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC. — C$300,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetTORONTO FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS SUCCESS — C$285,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetWE CHARITY — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHOUSAND ISLAND BOAT MUSEUM — C$250,000 over 7y, 4.6% of budgetYMCA SASKATOON INC. — C$250,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetRoyal University Hospital Foundation — C$250,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetCANCER FOUNDATION OF SASKATCHEWAN INC. — C$205,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDRENS DISCOVERY MUSEUM ON THE SASKATCHEWAN INC. — C$200,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetCUPS CALGARY SOCIETY — C$192,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CALGARY BETWEEN FRIENDS CLUB-FUN & FELLOWSHIP FOR DISAB — C$152,500 over 5y, 2.4% of budgetGREATER SASKATOON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION INC. — C$150,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetSHAKESPEARE ON THE SASKATCHEWAN FESTIVAL — C$150,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetKIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA — C$127,500 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetSASKATCHEWAN CANCER AGENCY — C$110,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCONTEMPORARY CALGARY ARTS SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetSASKATOON CITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC. — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetMEEWASIN VALLEY AUTHORITY — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCANADIAN MENNONITE UNIVERSITY — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMOUNTED POLICE HERITAGE CENTRE — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetSHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS — C$70,000 over 2y, 1.1% 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.

Calgary Flames Founda…Calgary Shaw Charity …Carthy FoundationCenovus Employee Foun…Saskatoon Community F…The Calgary FoundationNickle Family Foundat…Place2Give FoundationViewpoint FoundationThe Calgary Roman Cat…Saskatchewan Communit…Children's Hospital A…
Calgary Flames FoundationAB31.1× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Saskatoon Community Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · Place2Give Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Saskatchewan Community Foundation Corp. · Children's Hospital Aid Society

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 195 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 2024-07-31, 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 868096744:2024-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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