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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

N. Murray Edwards Charitable Foundation

The vast majority of the foundation's capital was donated in prior years.

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

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHALONER CHILDRENS CHARITY'C$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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$15M · 7 repeat orgsC$250k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
14

Total granted

C$15M
C$240k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+42%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24
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

  • AF
    Aqueduct Foundation
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$15M · revenue +16%
  • UO
    University of Calgary
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$192k · revenue +27%
  • C
    CUPS
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$90k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • DU
    DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k · revenue +36%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF TORONTOgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$50k · revenue +42%
  • ST
    ST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k · revenue +0%

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
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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2
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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3
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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4
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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5
Alberta University of the Arts

Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.

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6
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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7
Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology

Post secondary education and training in technology applied arts and trades.

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8
The Board of Governors of Grant MacEwan University

Providing post-secondary education by teaching learning scholarship research and community service; --Funding of endowed academic chairs created to assist with achieving the academic goals and objectives of the University; --Philanthrophic…

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9
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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10
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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11
St Thomas More College

St. Thomas More College is a Catholic liberal arts college federated with the University of Saskatchewan. St. Thomas More College faculty teach in several different disciplines in the general areas of Social Sciences and Humanities.

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12
Aaas Foundation

The canadian foundation for food and agricultural education funds and directs two major scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students at canadian universities: the karl c. ivarson alberta students scholarships

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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 St. Thomas University. 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

22 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)
21/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
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 budgetAqueduct Foundation — C$15,000,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$192,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUPS — C$90,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHWAN — C$42,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF CANADA — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST. THOMAS UNIVERSITY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Calgary Foundation — C$24,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity Saskatoon Inc. — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Salvation Army Community Services — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.9% of budgetCHALONER CHILDRENS CHARITY' — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSt. Mary`s University — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJanus Academy Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Star Mothers Milk Bank — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCalgary Inter-Faith Food Bank — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mustard Seed — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GLASSCO FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetI Can for Kids foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetBOW VALLEY COLLEGE — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAthol Murray College of Notre Dame — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetANN & SANDY CROSS CONSERVATION AREA — C$1,250 over 1y, 0.2% 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 FoundationCarthy FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Raymond James Canada …The Edmonton Communit…Aqueduct FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Wcpd FoundationThe Winnipeg Foundati…Canada GivesCharitable Gift Funds…BenefAction Foundation
The Calgary FoundationAB10.8× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Carthy Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Aqueduct Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · The Winnipeg Foundation · Canada Gives · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction 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 22 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 888179413:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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