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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Norris Family Foundation

Making donations to qualified donees

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$238k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 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–50k5 grants · C$120k
  • C$50k–250k10 grants · C$898k
C$50,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$22M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATIONC$237,500
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETYC$200,000
FEAR IS NOT LOVE SOCIETYC$100,000
PROSTATE CANCER CENTREC$60,000
LUNA CHILD AND YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRE LTD.C$50,000
CALGARY HEALTH TRUSTC$50,000
WELLSPRING ALBERTAC$50,000
RUNDLE COLLEGE SOCIETYC$50,000
PINE RIVER FOUNDATIONC$50,000
CLOSER TO HOME COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETYC$50,000
SOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGYC$35,000
CALGARY COUNSELLING CENTREC$25,000
CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATIONC$20,000
INTERNATIONAL JUSITCE MISSION CANADAC$20,000
DIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION CANADA INC.C$20,000
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.1M · 16 repeat orgsC$388k to everyone else

16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
6

Total granted

C$4.1M
C$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+51%

Still filing today

100%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$180k 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

  • RC
    RESOLVE CAMPAIGN
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$765k · revenue +12%
  • CC
    CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$690k · revenue +6%
  • WC
    WELLSPRING CALGARY
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$375k · revenue +91%

Funded once

  • CS
    CALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$138k
  • KC
    KIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$15k · revenue +42%
  • TC
    THE CALGARY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue -5%

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 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 Eye Foundation

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

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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
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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6
Alberta Cancer Foundation

The alberta cancer foundation provides funds for cancer research the prevention detection education and diagnosis of cancer and for the treatment and care of cancer patients within alberta.

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7
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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8
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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9
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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10
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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11
Calgary Drop-in & Rehab Centre Society

The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre provides access to a spectrum of care that supports adults at risk of homelessness to the most independent living possible - including various emergency shelter programs and services and affordable and…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Wilder Institute. 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

25 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. 25 of the 28 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
15/25
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 budgetCALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION — C$797,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetRESOLVE CAMPAIGN — C$765,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$690,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWELLSPRING CALGARY — C$375,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ENDOWMENT FUND TRUST — C$368,000 over 6y, 30% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$170,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetFEAR IS NOT LOVE SOCIETY — C$161,500 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPINE RIVER FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY — C$125,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCUPS — C$120,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$110,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLUNA CHILD AND YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRE LTD. — C$105,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCLOSER TO HOME COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER CENTRE — C$60,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetRUNDLE COLLEGE SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CANADA — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSITCE MISSION CANADA — C$35,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetDIABETES RESEARCH INSTITUTE FOUNDATION CANADA INC. — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCALGARY ZOO FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CALGARY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF CALGARY — C$15,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$5,000 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.

Atco Electric EpicThe Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…The Calgary Roman Cat…Calgary Flames Founda…Raymond James Canada …Cenovus Employee Foun…Atco Gas Employees' C…Canada GivesThe Arthur J E Child …United Way of the Alb…Place2Give Foundation
Atco Electric EpicAB14.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atco Electric Epic · The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Calgary Flames Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Canada Gives · The Arthur J E Child Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Place2Give 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 28 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 841055619:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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