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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

M-E Squared Foundation

Mission Statement M-E Squared Foundation explores creates and provides opportunities to unleash the exponential energy of music and the environment.

C$15M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$12M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$24k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$50k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$406k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$15M
C$10,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Loram FoundationC$12,000,000
National Music CentreC$2,820,500
Carthy FoundationC$131,250
STARS FoundationC$125,000
Alberta Hunter Education Instructors' AssociationC$100,000
The Calgary Young Men's Christian AssociationC$50,000
Spruce Meadows Leg Up FoundationC$40,000
Delta Waterfowl FoundationC$10,000
Revv52|Calgary Choral SocietyC$5,000
Grace Presbyterian ChurchC$5,000
Ducks Unlimited CanadaC$5,000
Pheasants Forever Calgary ChapterC$2,500
Canadian Sharing Locally and GloballyC$2,500
Canadian International Organ CompetitionC$2,000
Leighton Art CentreC$1,000
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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$25M · 39 repeat orgsC$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

39 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 24 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

39
38

Total granted

C$25M
C$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+14%

Still filing today

92%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 22% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12M 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

  • NC
    Nature Conservancy of Canada
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$800k · revenue +144%
  • CF
    Carthy Foundation
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$789k · revenue ×21
  • SF
    STARS Foundation
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$375k · revenue +29%

Funded once

  • PI
    Perimeter Institute
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k · revenue +24%
  • DF
    De Fehr Foundation Inc.
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue -6%
  • TD
    The DeFehr Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k

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
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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2
Calgary Arts Academy Foundation

In support of the calgary arts academy society to advance arts immersion in education so support capital endeavors for the society.

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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 Public Library Foundation

The Calgary Public Library Foundation's sole purpose is to raise funds for the Calgary Public Library to enhance programs and services provided to Calgarians.

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5
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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6
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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7
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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8
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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9
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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10
Banff Forum

The Banff Forum's objective is to advance education by hosting an annual forum and events across the country that bring together emerging and established leaders across all sectors and regions to enhance their leadership skills and support…

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11
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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12
The Banff Centre Foundation

The banff centre foundation supports the activities of the board of governors of the banff centre which is a charitable organization providing the public with the opportunity to access a broad range of learning experiences.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Stampede Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Spruce Meadows Leg Up Foundation. 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

73 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. 73 of the 78 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
71/73
Grantees still filing
48/73
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 budgetNational Music Centre — C$21,411,360 over 8y, 22% of budgetNature Conservancy of Canada — C$800,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetCarthy Foundation — C$788,991 over 6y, 23% of budgetSTARS Foundation — C$375,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSpruce Meadows Leg Up Foundation — C$320,000 over 7y, 21% of budgetBusiness Families Foundation — C$250,000 over 2y, 9.8% of budgetAlberta Hunter Education Instructors' Association — C$204,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRidley College — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetThe Calgary Young Men's Christian Association — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetManning Foundation for Democratic Education — C$115,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetPerimeter Institute — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMacdonald-Laurier Institute — C$100,000 over 3y, 2.4% of budgetDelta Waterfowl — C$96,612 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetDe Fehr Foundation Inc. — C$50,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetDavid Foster Foundation — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDucks Unlimited — C$32,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGrace Presbyterian Church — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSt. Mary's University — C$19,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Chapter Pheasants Forever — C$18,600 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetCanadian Constitution Foundation — C$16,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPhilanthropic Foundations Canada — C$15,142 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Arts Centre Foundation — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWE Charity — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWebber Academy — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA of Calgary — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Ballet Company — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCalgary Seniors Resource Society — C$9,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHull Services — C$8,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRevv52|Calgary Choral Society — C$7,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetVeterans Transition Network — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAsia Pacific Foundation of Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFriends of Canadian Museum for Human Rights — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian International Organ Competition — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJustice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Calgary Foundation (The Vintage Fund and The Veterans Xm — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Sharing Locally and Globally — C$3,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCalgary Military Family Resource Centre — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetThe Military Museums Foundation — C$3,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCalgary Stampede Foundation — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFirefighters Burn Treatment Society - Calgary Chapter — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMary A. Tidlund Charitable Foundation — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLeighton Art Centre — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWatershed Watch Salmon Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Orchestra Society of Calgary — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Colin B. Glassco Charitable Foundation for Children — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAARC Society — C$1,500 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.

Viewpoint FoundationThe Calgary FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…Cenovus Employee Foun…Carthy FoundationCalgary Shaw Charity …Hunter Family Foundat…United Way of Calgary…Rozsa FoundationThe Alvin and Mona Li…The Shawana FoundationAqueduct Foundation
Viewpoint FoundationAB20.5× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Viewpoint Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Rozsa Foundation · The Alvin and Mona Libin Foundation · The Shawana Foundation · Aqueduct 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 78 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 815567789:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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