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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

National Music Centre

The programs encourage and provide opportunities for the public to participate in musical performances competitions festivals workshops and musical education programs for the general public.

C$363k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$196k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$35k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$321k
C$35,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$163M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NMC MUSIC FOUNDATIONC$195,767
CALGARY HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$125,000
RANCH EHRLO SOCIETYC$35,000
THE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
JIM PATTISON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,500
CANADIAN RED CROSSC$584
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.8M · 4 repeat orgsC$62k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +6% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
5

Total granted

C$1.8M
C$55k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+6%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k 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

  • NM
    NMC MUSIC FOUNDATION
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$909k · revenue +29% · 100% of their budget
  • CH
    CALGARY HEALTH TRUST
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$670k · revenue +1%
  • UO
    University of Calgary
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$175k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • MM
    MAKE MUSIC MATTER
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue -42%
  • GA
    Glenbow - Alberta Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue +312%
  • AS
    Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories
    one grant, 2017 · C$150 · revenue +4%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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9
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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10
Red Deer Regional Health Foundation

Red deer regional health foundation (rdrhf) raises and disburses funds for program services and the purchase of medical equipment for the red deer regional hospital centre (rdrhc) and other facilities in alberta health services (ahs)…

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11
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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12
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Make Music Matter Inc.. 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
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 budgetNMC MUSIC FOUNDATION — C$909,457 over 5y, 100% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH TRUST — C$669,970 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$175,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRANCH EHRLO SOCIETY — C$85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE MUSIC MATTER — C$50,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetTHE MONTREAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGlenbow - Alberta Institute — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJIM PATTISON CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$584 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre Society — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAHELPS CANADON — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% 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.

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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 charitable organization under arts.

Source object 136407574:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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