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Edmonton, AB · Private foundation

Melton Foundation

The foundation grants money to local community charities

C$300k
Granted FY2024still arriving
29
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$30k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 29 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k11 grants · C$43k
  • C$10k–50k18 grants · C$257k
C$10,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$8.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PILGRIMS HOSPICE SOCIETYC$30,000
YMCA OF NORTHERN ALBERTAC$25,000
THE CALGARY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONC$25,000
YOUTH CENTRE CALGARYC$22,000
UNITED WAY OF THE ALBERTA CAPITAL REGIONC$20,000
THE SIGN OF HOPE SOCIETY ARCHDIOCESE OF EDMONTONC$15,000
YWCA EDMONTONC$10,000
TWO WHEEL VIEW - CALGARY LTDC$10,000
THE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND SUPPORT SERVICESC$10,000
THE ROB NASH PROJECT INCC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$10,000
THE APPLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONC$10,000
VECOVA CENTRE FOR DISABILITY SERVICES AND RESEARCHC$10,000
MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$10,000
FREE PLAY FOR KIDS INCC$10,000
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.0M · 41 repeat orgsC$126k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

41 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
28

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$117k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+24%

Still filing today

98%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9k 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

  • TC
    The Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$354k · revenue +34%
  • PH
    PILGRIM'S HOSPICE SOCIETY
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$145k · revenue +690%
  • YO
    YMCA OF NORTHERN ALBERTA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$120k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue +12%
  • KH
    KINDRED HEARTS CAMBODIA FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +110%
  • BG
    Boys & Girls Club and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton &graduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +29%

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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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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2
The Calgary Foundation

The Calgary Foundation carried out its charitable purpose through the ongoing administration of its granting programs. While the Foundation provides grants to support charitable activity across the entire sector it has a particular focus…

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3
Centre for Autism Services Alberta

Intensive intervention and ECS programs for children youth teens and young adults with autism Family support services Therapeutic and recreational groups for children youth teens and young adults with autism Employment readiness and…

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4
Evenstart for Children Foundation of Calgary

The foundation provides a centre based program for disadvantaged and at risk preschool aged children and their families as well as sponsorship program for children at risk who are referred by the community partners.

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5
Mountain Plains Family Service Society of Edmonton

Programs that place children referred by childrens services into foster homes and provide support to both the children and the foster family

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6
Calgary Homeless Foundation

Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness. Providing grants to qualified donees and other community organizations to assist individuals experiencing homelessness…

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7
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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8
Calgary Police Foundation

The calgary police foundation (cpf)operates under the name of the calgary police youth foundation. it's purpose is to educate youth about good citizenship safe communities policing and avoiding victimization and criminality. cpf does this…

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9
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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10
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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11
Change Health Alberta

Runs a camp which aims to reconnect famililes and children with healthy active lifestyles through a series of educational programming in alberta

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12
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edmonton City Centre Church Corporation and the most unlike its peers is Casa 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

69 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. 69 of the 72 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
68/69
Grantees still filing
52/69
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 budgetThe Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton — C$354,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetPILGRIM'S HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$145,000 over 6y, 2.8% of budgetYMCA OF NORTHERN ALBERTA — C$120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALGARY YOUNG MEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$110,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVALOUR PLACE SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 4y, 3.9% of budgetTHE SIGN OF HOPE SOCIETY ARCHDIOCESE OF EDMONTON — C$88,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetTHE YOUTH EMPOWERMENT AND SUPPORT SERVICES — C$85,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH CENTRE CALGARY — C$83,000 over 6y, 3.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$80,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetVECOVA CENTRE FOR DISABILITY SERVICES AND RESEARCH — C$78,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$76,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBrissell Centre — C$75,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF THE ALBERTA CAPITAL REGION — C$60,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICE-UNLOCKING POTENTIAL FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetTHE APPLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetKids on Track Association of Edmonton — C$38,972 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetFREE PLAY FOR KIDS INC. — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Robb Nash Project Inc. — C$35,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetEDMONTON GLEANERS ASSOCIATION — C$31,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA EDMONTON — C$30,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE VALLEY ZOO DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY — C$27,750 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetSTOLLERY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$26,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCASA FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCENTRE FOR FAMILY LITERACY SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$25,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCOVENANT FOUNDATION — C$22,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetThe Boys and Girls Clubs of Calgary Foundation — C$20,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetTWO WHEEL VIEW-CALGARY LTD. — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetCASA Child, Adolescent and Family Mental Health — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$19,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH AND PHILANTHROPY INITIATIVE CANADA — C$15,600 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetJasper Place Wellness Centre — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetST.JOSEPH'S COLLEGE — C$13,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern Alberta and the Northwest Ter — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club and Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton & — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTERRA CENTRE FOR TEEN PARENTS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoyle Street Service Society — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKALEO COLLECTIVE LTD — C$8,750 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE DOORWAY — C$8,350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNINA HAGGERTY CENTRE FOR THE ARTS — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Edmonton Space & Science Foundation — C$6,300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MARIAN CENTRE — C$5,500 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetMAMAS FOR MAMAS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDMONTON CATHOLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBALLET EDMONTON SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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.

Butler Family Foundat…Edmonton Oilers Commu…Atco Electric EpicThe Edmonton Communit…The Stollery Charitab…Allard Foundation Ltd.Atco Gas Employees' C…Alberta Blue Cross He…Abc Benefits Corporat…United Way of the Alb…Frank J. Flaman Found…The Edmonton Civic Em…
Butler Family FoundationAB31× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Butler Family Foundation · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · The Stollery Charitable Foundation · Allard Foundation Ltd. · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Frank J. Flaman Foundation · The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund

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 72 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 119037364:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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