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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

McCreath Foundation

It is the charity’s objective to support the following oganizations that our family supported prior to establishing birchbay foundation: 1.

C$170k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$38k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$82k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$7,040
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$50,000
CITY OF CALGARYC$20,000
TERRY FOX FOUNDATIONC$20,000
CANADAS SPORTS HALL OF FAMEC$20,000
REMAI MODERNC$12,000
PRINCE EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
UNICEFC$7,500
WASKESIU FOUNDATIONC$7,040
CALGARY PARKS FOUNDATIONC$5,000
YWCA CALGARYC$5,000
SASKATCHEWAN POLYTECHNICC$5,000
CALGARY FOUNDATIONC$3,000
YOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARYC$2,500
THE TRELLIS SOCIETYC$1,500
KIDS HELP PHONEC$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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$503k · 12 repeat orgsC$53k to everyone else

12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

C$503k
C$29k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+34%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$24k went to new ones.

50%100%’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 SASKATCHEWAN
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$232k · revenue +30%
  • TF
    TERRY FOX FOUNDATION
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$43k · revenue +165%
  • WM
    WHYTE MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES
    4× · 2020–2023 · C$42k · revenue +33%

Funded once

  • TT
    THE TERRY FOX FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$20k · revenue +46%
  • OT
    ONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTRE
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue -19%
  • TR
    THOMPSON RIVER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k · revenue -50%

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
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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3
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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4
Community Foundation of Central Alberta

The foundation is a community catalyst committed to growing a legacy which strengthens the quality of life in red deer and central alberta. activities in support of their mission include: working with donors to enable them to meet their…

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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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9
Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation

Charitable status was received on April 1 2018 and CAHF has been in a set up phase since that time. In this current fiscal year there has been activity related to preparing to deliver charitable activities which can be described as…

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10
Royal University Hospital Foundation Inc.

Provide funds raised to Saskatchewan Health Authority for capital construction capital equipment staff education and scholarships fellowships patient care and research within Royal University Hospital. Provide funds raised to the…

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Calgary Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Kawartha Turtle Trauma Centre. 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

21 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. 21 of the 23 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
10/21
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$232,314 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$43,000 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetWHYTE MUSEUM OF THE ROCKIES — C$41,650 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetREMAI MODERN — C$41,053 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetCANADAS SPORTS HALL OF FAME — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetWASKESIU FOUNDATION — C$31,964 over 5y, 8.1% of budgetTHE TERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNICEF — C$13,750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCE EDWARD MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA CALGARY — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSASKATCHEWAN POLYTECHNIC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION — C$4,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO TURTLE CONSERVATION CENTRE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHOMPSON RIVER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE PATRIOT LOVE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHILLHURST UNITED CHURCH — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$1,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRELLIS SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPRINCE ALBERT SHARE-A-MEAL FOOD BANK INC — 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.

The Calgary FoundationLily Street FoundationNickle Family Foundat…Calgary Flames Founda…BenefAction FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…United Way of Calgary…Hunter Family Foundat…The United Church of …Carthy FoundationAbundance CanadaThe Kpmg Foundation/L…
The Calgary FoundationAB12.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Lily Street Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Hunter Family Foundation · The United Church of Canada Foundation / Fondation de L'Église Unie Du Canada · Carthy Foundation · Abundance Canada · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg

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 23 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 777476870:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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