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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Michelle O'Reilly Foundation

The foundation receives by way of donation legacy grant gift or bequest property to hold and to expend by way of donation to qualified donees for charitable purposes.

C$80k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$25k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$25,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$540k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
POWER TO GIVE FOUNDATIONC$50,000
CALGARY FOLK MUSIC FESTIVALC$25,000
CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAC$5,000
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.5M · 6 repeat orgsC$91k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
5

Total granted

C$2.5M
C$86k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+43%
+56%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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

  • G
    GLENBOW
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$1.5M · revenue +149%
  • AC
    Alexander Community Health Centre
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$592k · revenue +55%
  • CF
    CALGARY FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$125k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • CC
    Calgary Catholic Education Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$35k · revenue +127%
  • SA
    Southern Alberta Institute of Technologygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$35k · revenue +32%
  • CF
    CENTRE FOR SEXUALITYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$8k · revenue +68%

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 Performing Arts Festival Society

An annual performing arts festival involving approximately 10 000 youth who have an opportunity to perform in front of a live audience and receive written and oral feedback from professional adjudicators in 17 different categories…

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3
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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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
Calgary Cinematheque Society

The calgary cinematheque a non-profit film society is committed to showcasing compelling thought-provoking and indispensable works of cinematic art in calgary. through carefully curated weekly screenings of art cinema calgary cinematheque…

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6
The Alberta Theatre Projects Society

Alberta Theatre Projects is a Calgary- based not-for-profit professional theatre organization that celebrates the art of live theatre. From our home in the Martha Cohen Theatre we create world class contemporary theatre with a focus on…

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7
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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8
Calgary International Children's Festival Society

The Society presents an annual event called the Calgary International Children's Festival(CICF)CICF is a 4 day event for children and families providing performance arts experiences by artists from around the world in the disciplines of…

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9
The Calgary Society of Independent Film Makers

Film festival art camps workshop production facilities and assistance to independent filmmakers and film school.

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10
Contemporary Calgary Arts Society

Public art gallery dedicated to the exhibition education and discussion of contemporary art including the presentation of curated exhibitions speaker series publications public events and activities independently and in partnership with…

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11
Calgary Public Library Board

The Calgary Public Library provides services to the citizens of Calgary including access to books and materials electronic resources information services other activities and to promote programs and life-long learning for children and…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary International Film Festival Society and the most unlike its peers is Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. 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

12 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
11/12
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 budgetGLENBOW — C$1,500,000 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetAlexander Community Health Centre — C$591,660 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetCALGARY FOLK MUSIC FESTIVAL — C$125,000 over 5y, 1.3% of budgetCALGARY INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPOWER TO GIVE — C$100,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTheatre Calgary — C$43,600 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCalgary Catholic Education Foundation — C$35,119 over 1y, 14% of budgetSouthern Alberta Institute of Technology — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR SEXUALITY — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEOW FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

United Way of Calgary…The Calgary FoundationCenovus Employee Foun…Rozsa FoundationBenefAction FoundationCanada GivesThe Jeffrey and Maril…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Calgary Shaw Charity …Carthy FoundationThe Kpmg Foundation/L…Charitable Gift Funds…
United Way of Calgary and AreaAB12.1× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Rozsa Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Canada Gives · The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Carthy Foundation · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada

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 12 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 823081195:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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