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Edmonton, AB · Charitable organization

Make a Dream Come True (Lions) Society

The society offers financial assistance to fulfill a last time dream for a terminally ill person over the age of eighteen years who is without financial means to fulfill the dream.

C$22k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$12k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$1,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$36k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Edmonton Community FoundationC$10,000
Covenant FoundationC$5,000
Adorado Nino Horse Rescue & SanctuaryC$4,000
Edmonton Gleaners AssociationC$1,000
Alberta Hospice Palliative Care AssociationC$1,000
Hope MissionC$500
Edmonton Down Syndrome SocietyC$500
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$87k · 7 repeat orgsC$65k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
18

Total granted

C$87k
C$53k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
56%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 45% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k 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

  • EC
    EDMONTON COMMUNTIY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2024 · C$25k · revenue +141%
  • BC
    BC CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$11k · revenue +17%
  • SO
    SOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$10k · revenue +74%

Funded once

  • EC
    EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k
  • LS
    LUPUS SOCIETY OF ALBERTA
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue -34%
  • CC
    CAPITAL CARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +10%

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.

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Alberta Cancer Foundation

The alberta cancer foundation provides funds for cancer research the prevention detection education and diagnosis of cancer and for the treatment and care of cancer patients within alberta.

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2
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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3
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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4
The Alberta Lung Foundation
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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
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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7
Northern Alberta Urology Foundation

Research prostate cancer awareness

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8
Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation

The alberta children's hospital foundation raises funds for excellence in child health research and family centred care. funding is provided to alberta health services and university of calgary for advanced pediatric research specialized…

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9
Canadian Myeloma Research Group

In Canada researchers figure prominently in the development of innovative and very promising clinical trials. The Canadian Myeloma Research Group (CMRG) is the first and only national organization bringing together Canada's leading cancer…

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10
The Alberta Paraplegic Foundation

Promotion and sponsorship of research in the area of neurotrama and spinal cord injury or disease and the distribution and allocation of funds for rehabilitation.

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11
The Alberta Medical Foundation

The alberta medical foundation (amf) is the only registered charitable foundation that promotes the research study and appreciation of the history of medicine in alberta.

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12
Canadians for Leading Edge Alzheimer Research Foundation

Canadians for leading edge alzheimer research foundation facilitates research into the causes prevention and treatment of alzheimer's disease and related dementias by making grants to various peer reviewed research projects.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Teen Time of Edmonton. 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

18 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. 18 of the 31 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/18
Grantees still filing
12/18
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 budgetEDMONTON COMMUNTIY FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY OF ST VINCENT DE PAUL — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetTEEN TIME — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetALBERTA DIABETES FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCHRONIC PAIN ASSOCIATION OF CANADA — C$6,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetLUPUS SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetCAPITAL CARE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROHNS AND COLITIS CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOVARIAN CANCER CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMERS SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$1,002 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH TRUST — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEdmonton Down Syndrome Society — C$500 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…The Edmonton Communit…Edmonton Oilers Commu…Telus Employees Chari…United Way of Calgary…The Stollery Charitab…Atco Gas Employees' C…Raymond James Canada …The Edmonton Civic Em…The Dianne and Irving…Frank J. Flaman Found…
Atco Electric EpicAB13.6× affinity11 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 · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Stollery Charitable Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund · The Dianne and Irving Kipnes Foundation · Frank J. Flaman 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 31 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 2024-01-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 891346348:2024-01-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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