Medicine Hat, AB · Public foundation
Medicine Hat Realtors' Charitable Foundation
1.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| REDCLIFF ACTION SOCIETY FOR YOUTH | C$3,500 |
| UNISON AT VEINER CENTRE | C$2,500 |
| ROTARY MUSIC FESTIVAL | C$2,500 |
| MEDICINE HAT NEWS SANTA CLAUS FUND | C$2,500 |
| MEDICINE HAT YOUTH ACTION SOCIETY | C$2,500 |
| THE MUSTARD SEED | C$2,000 |
| MEDICINE HAT & DISTRICT HEALTH FOUNDATION | C$2,000 |
| ROOT CELLAR FOOD & WELLNESS HUB | C$1,250 |
| MEDICINE HAT CATHOLIC BOARD OF EDUCATION | C$1,200 |
| MEDICINE HAT ALBERTA GAMES SOCIETY | C$1,200 |
| DIGITAL WELLNESS COALITION | C$1,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k went to new ones.
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
- MHMEDICINE HAT NEWS SANTA CLAUS FUND7× · 2017–2024 · C$19k · revenue +15%
- TMTHE MUSTARD SEED4× · 2019–2024 · C$16k · revenue +74%
- MHMEDICINE HAT WOMEN'S SHELTER5× · 2017–2023 · C$14k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- SESouth East Alberta Search & Rescuegraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$6k · revenue +69%
- HFHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SOUTHERN ALBERTAone grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +11%
- PRPRAIRIE ROSE SCHOOL DIVISION (BOW ISLAND RUNNING TRACT COMMIone grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +19%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Safety programs for children and youth in medicine hat area.
To support ECS through Grade 12 education parent/teacher groups and student scholarships.
Houses and provides support services for households with low or modest incomes. the support services provided are tailored to the needs of the program participants and to help those in need to identify and address the issues in their lives…
The charity runs a post secondary institution that offers courses in a wide variety of areas
Food hampers programs- to help relive poverty by supplying food to those in need. relieving food insecurities -hygiene program -supply hygiene packs to those in need for better care. -christmas hamper / gift program – help those less…
Operated 'adopt a pet' facility to house and care for unwanted sick or abused animals in medicine hat and the surrounding areas. provide financial aid to pet owners for spaying/neutering. provide public education through media school…
Ongoing programs
Provide services and support to indigenous people in medicine hat and surrounding area
The medicine hat musical theatre provides the citizens of the city of medicine hat and the surrounding areas with entertainment through medium of amateur musical theatre. the medicine hat musical theatre promotes performing arts and…
The medicine hat john howard society established as a committee in 1948 affiliated with the john howard society of alberta in 1949 and incorporated (under the societies act) in 1986 is a non-profit organization that works with our…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Medicine Hat Family Service and the most unlike its peers is Prairie Rose School Division No. 8. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
23 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. 23 of the 32 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds MEDICINE HAT NEWS SANTA CLAUS FUND ↗
- Who funds THE MUSTARD SEED ↗
- Who funds MEDICINE HAT WOMEN'S SHELTER ↗
- Who funds REDCLIFF ACTION SOCIETY FOR YOUTH ↗
- Who funds BIG BROTHER & BIG SISTERS ASSOCIATION OF MEDICINE HAT ↗
- Who funds Medicine Hat Youth Acton Society ↗
- Who funds MEDICINE HAT & DISTRICT HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MEDICINE HAT COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds South East Alberta Search & Rescue ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SOUTHERN ALBERTA ↗
- Who funds PRAIRIE ROSE SCHOOL DIVISION (BOW ISLAND RUNNING TRACT COMMI ↗
- Who funds UNISON AT VEINER CENTRE ↗
- Who funds MEDICINE HAT FAMILY SERVICES ↗
- Who funds United Way of Southeastern Alberta ↗
- Who funds MEDICINE HAT CATHOLIC BOARD OF EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds Bridge Family Program of Southeastern Alberta ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ALBERTA MEDIC AIR SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROTARY MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MEDICINE HAT ECUMENICAL CAMPUS SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROOT CELLAR FOOD & WELLNESS HUB ↗
- Who funds Society of Grasslands Naturalists ↗
- Who funds UNISPHERE ↗
- Who funds Parkinson Alberta ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Medicine Hat and Southeastern Alberta · United Way of South Eastern Alberta · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Yuill Family Foundation · Rc Diocese of Calgary · Aecon Transportation West Ltd. Employee Charitable Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · The Western Communities Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Chapel of Christ the King · Friends of Medalta 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.