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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Nickle Family Foundation

Nickle Family Foundation exists to provide grants to registered charities primarily in Calgary and area but from time to time elsewhere in Canada as well.

C$788k
Granted FY2024still arriving
74
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$55k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 74 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k37 grants · C$95k
  • C$10k–50k36 grants · C$638k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$55k
C$10,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$17M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FOOTHILLS ACADEMYC$55,020
ARTS COMMONSC$48,465
CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETYC$35,400
PACEKIDS SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN WITH SPECIAL NEEDSC$35,000
ALBERTA DEAF AND HARD OF HEARING SOCIETYC$30,000
BETHANY CARE FOUNDATIONC$25,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$25,000
HERITAGE PARK SOCIETYC$25,000
DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARYC$20,000
COCHRANE AND AREA HUMANE SOCIETYC$20,000
UNISON SOCIETYC$20,000
CALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRAC$20,000
BRIGHT LIGHTS FOR AFRICA FOUNDATIONC$20,000
LEFTOVERS FOUNDATIONC$20,000
BRIDGES SOCIAL DEVELOPMENTC$20,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 61% of grant dollars (C$2.7M). The 39% that went abroad (C$1.7M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 39% of all-years giving (C$1.7M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.5M · 117 repeat orgsC$1.9M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

117 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 99 since wound down; 51 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

117
246

Total granted

C$2.5M
C$1.4M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+41%

Still filing today

77%
61%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$522k 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

  • FA
    Foothills Academy
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$232k · revenue +40%
  • UO
    University of Calgary
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$92k · revenue +27%
  • MS
    MUSTARD SEED CALGARY
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$67k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • AC
    Arts Commonsgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$28k · revenue +83%
  • RC
    Rise Calgary Resource Centre's Society
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k
  • Y
    YWCAgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k · revenue +76%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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 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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Homespace Society

Homespace society is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to creatively apply expertise to increase and manage the number of affordable and specialized housing units in calgary

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6
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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7
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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8
Help a Buddy Fund

We financially support registered charitable animal welfare groups in Alberta by offering monetary grants and joint fundraising efforts to those who have programs in place to support animals in need of long-term rehabilitation of a year or…

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9
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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10
Casa Mental Health

CASA Mental Health delivers holistic culturally safe wrap-around mental health services to Albertans aged 3 - 18 and their families. Major programs include Residential and Day Programs that consist of CASA House Preschool Day Programs…

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11
Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society

Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society supplies funding primarily to Qualified Donees that support spay and neuter assistance programs in Calgary and surrounding areas.

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Seniors Resource Society and the most unlike its peers is Edworthy Park Heritage Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

247 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. 247 of the 414 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)
84
Early backer (in before they grew)
239/247
Grantees still filing
193/247
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFoothills Academy — C$231,965 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$92,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED CALGARY — C$66,800 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION — C$61,350 over 4y, 2.7% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY — C$57,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs of Calgary — C$50,983 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetStardale Women's Group — C$49,450 over 4y, 16% of budgetHeritage Park — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY SENIORS RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetPower to Be — C$42,700 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetDaily Bread Food Bank Toronto — C$40,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity — C$40,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM ASPERGERS FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetL'Arche Association of Calgary — C$38,725 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFeline Rescue Foundation — C$35,678 over 5y, 9.3% of budgetDeaf & Hear Alberta — C$35,038 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetProject Warmth Society — C$35,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetChildren's Cottage Society — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetALBERTA MUSIC FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — C$35,000 over 5y, 9.0% of budgetCANADA BRIDGES — C$35,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetVariety the Children's Charity — C$33,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetNext Step Ministries — C$32,450 over 3y, 3.2% of budgetAlzheimer Canada — C$31,900 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetBetween Friends — C$30,150 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetSONSHINE COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBethany Care — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCALGARY WILDLIFE REHABILITATION SOCIETY — C$28,500 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCochrane & Area Humane Society — C$28,155 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetArts Commons — C$27,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE DOORWAY — C$27,200 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetKerby Centre — C$27,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HAVEN — C$25,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetCPAWS SOUTHERN ALBERTA CHAPTER — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCalgary John Howard Society — C$23,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSamaritan's Purse — C$22,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Food Bank — C$20,950 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSEACHANGE MARINE — C$20,300 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetZion Evangelical Mission Church — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHIV Community Link — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetSunrise Community Link — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetROCKY VIEW SCHOOL DIVISION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrenda Strafford Society for the Prevention of Family — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSEEDS Connections — C$17,800 over 1y, 11% of budgetEmpowering Minds — C$17,650 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetThe SHARP Foundation — C$17,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCALGARY IMMIGRANT WOMEN — C$17,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTails to Tell Animal Rescue — C$16,300 over 2y, 9.3% 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.

  • Who funds Foothills Academy ↗
  • Who funds University of Calgary ↗
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION ↗
  • Who funds DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds Boys & Girls Clubs of Calgary ↗
  • Who funds Stardale Women's Group ↗
  • Who funds Heritage Park ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY SENIORS RESOURCE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Power to Be ↗
  • Who funds Daily Bread Food Bank Toronto ↗
  • Who funds Habitat for Humanity ↗
  • Who funds AUTISM ASPERGERS FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds L'Arche Association of Calgary ↗
  • Who funds Feline Rescue Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Deaf & Hear Alberta ↗
  • Who funds Project Warmth Society ↗
  • Who funds Children's Cottage Society ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA MUSIC FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADA BRIDGES ↗
  • Who funds Variety the Children's Charity ↗
  • Who funds Next Step Ministries ↗
  • Who funds Alzheimer Canada ↗
  • Who funds Between Friends ↗
  • Who funds SONSHINE COMMUNITY SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds Bethany Care ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY WILDLIFE REHABILITATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds Cochrane & Area Humane Society ↗
  • Who funds Arts Commons ↗
  • Who funds THE DOORWAY ↗
  • Who funds Kerby Centre ↗

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.

Harry and Martha Cohe…Calgary Flames Founda…Calgary Shaw Charity …Cenovus Employee Foun…Place2Give FoundationHunter Family Foundat…Olympia Charitable Fo…Kids Up Front Foundat…The Rotary Club of Ca…The Calgary FoundationViewpoint FoundationCarthy Foundation
Harry and Martha Cohen FoundationAB37.5× affinity39 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Place2Give Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Olympia Charitable Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund · The Calgary Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Carthy 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 414 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 advancing religion.

Source object 119057727:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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