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Grande Prairie, AB · Public foundation

Northwestern Alberta Foundation

The NORTHWESTERN ALBERTA FOUNDATION supports the community in a variety of ways.

C$946k
Granted FY2024still arriving
101
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$90k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 101 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k81 grants · C$261k
  • C$10k–50k16 grants · C$423k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$263k
C$3,470
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LITTLE RED RIVER CREE NATIONC$89,680
EAST PRAIRIES SETTLEMENT ASSOCIATIONC$69,750
MASKWA MEDICAL CENTER (CANADA) INC.C$51,860
COMPASSION HOUSE FOUNDATIONC$51,500
HIGH PRAIRIE BEAUTIFICATION ASSOCIATIONC$48,500
COUNTY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE NO. 1C$40,000
MUNICIPAL DISTRICT OF GREENVIEW NO. 16C$37,100
TOWN OF HIGH LEVELC$35,850
CITY OF GRANDE PRAIRIEC$35,510
STURGEON LAKE CREE NATIONC$33,500
Individual grant recipientC$31,350
PEACE RIVER ART CLUBC$30,950
RIVERSIDE COMPASSION HOME SOCIETYC$25,500
GRADE THREE READING ACADEMY SOCIETYC$20,370
NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNICC$19,635
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.

Which regions your grants reach

Alberta
C$4.3M
Ontario
C$156k
Manitoba
C$24k
British Columbia
C$16k
Northwest Territories
C$4k
Saskatchewan
C$3k
Nova Scotia
C$2k
Prince Edward Island
C$900
New Brunswick
C$760

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.4M · 104 repeat orgsC$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

104 repeat relationships — 60 still active in FY2024, 44 since wound down; 41 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

104
126

Total granted

C$3.4M
C$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+22%

Still filing today

86%
31%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 46% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$515k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY GRANDE PRAIRIE COMMUNITY CHURCH
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$201k · revenue +296% · 47% of their budget
  • GP
    GRANDE PRAIRIE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$167k · revenue +99%
  • WC
    WAPITI COMMUNITY DORM SOCIETY
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$100k · revenue +135%

Funded once

  • GP
    GRANDE PRAIRIE YOUTH EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k
  • GP
    GRANDE PRAIRIE WOMEN'S RESIDENCE ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$95k
  • GP
    GRANDE PRAIRIE AND AREA SAFE COMMUNITIES
    one grant, 2023 · C$90k

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
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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2
Great Plains College

Great Plains College provides Post-Secondary training adult upgrading and academic counseling as well as custom training classes.

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3
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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4
The University of Winnipeg

Providing education

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5
Alberta Public Health Association

Provide public health information to members of the public provide public health professional and student engagement opportunities in public health and promote health protection initiatives

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6
Red River College Polytechnic

Red river college polytechnic is recognized globally for excellence in applied learning research and innovation. the mission of red river college polytechnic is to elevate people industry and community in manitoba through future-focused…

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7
The Red Deer Public Schools Scholarship Trust
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8
Red Deer Public School District Foundation

Advancement of education

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9
The Integrated Post Secondary Education Society of Alberta

Support for adults with developmental disabilities in authentic university experience. support for adults with developmental disabilities finding and maintaining meaningful paid employment. support adults with developmental disabilities…

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10
Alberta Golf Association Foundation

Provides scholarships to albertans for post-secondary education and that may also fund research projects relating to golf and golf facilities.

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11
The Job Safety Skills Society of Alberta

Training and education resources to teachers students schools and colleges

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12
Prairie North Regional Health Authority

The Regional Health Authority provides comprehensive health services including: acute care, long term care, primary health, home care, community/public health, mental health, addiction services, emergency services and health promotion and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Grande Prairie Friendship Centre and the most unlike its peers is Sexsmith and District Museum 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

158 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. 158 of the 271 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)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
158/158
Grantees still filing
101/158
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY GRANDE PRAIRIE COMMUNITY CHURCH — C$201,151 over 5y, 47% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$166,687 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetCOMPASSION HOUSE FOUNDATION — C$166,500 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetRIVERSIDE COMPASSION HOME SOCIETY — C$113,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetWAPITI COMMUNITY DORM SOCIETY — C$100,030 over 5y, 2.8% of budgetHIV NORTH SOCIETY — C$92,100 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSUICIDE PREVENTION RESOURCE CENTRE — C$84,747 over 7y, 8.8% of budgetNORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNIC — C$78,071 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SUPPORT TO PREGNANT AND PARENTIN — C$75,470 over 7y, 7.9% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE & DISTRICT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS EDUC — C$74,220 over 2y, 13% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$62,265 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE YOUTH EMERGENCY SHELTER — C$60,950 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE SOCIETY — C$54,895 over 6y, 17% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE COUNCIL FOR LIFELONG LEARNING S — C$54,575 over 2y, 13% of budgetP.A.C.E.(PROVIDING ASSISTANCEM COUNSELLING AND — C$53,114 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetMASKWA MEDICAL CENTER (CANADA) INC. — C$51,860 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE FAMILY EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$48,076 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA — C$42,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GRANDE PRAIRIE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2357 — C$40,204 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE REGIONAL OUTREACH STUDENT AND DAYCARE SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$39,000 over 4y, 16% of budgetELDER'S CARING SHELTER SOCIETY OF GRANDE PRAIR — C$38,705 over 3y, 11% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$36,745 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetCENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS SOCIETY OF GRAND PRAIRIE — C$36,481 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetANSO COLLECTIVES & EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$36,437 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE COOL AID SOCIETY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE — C$36,343 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetTHE OASIS FELLOWSHIP OF GRANDE PRAIRIE — C$36,170 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetThe Grande Prairie REgional College Foundation — C$35,700 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIVISION EDUCATION — C$35,252 over 2y, 14% of budgetMOUNTAIN PLAINS COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY OF — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE WOMEN'S RESIDENCE ASSOCIATION — C$34,703 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST. PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH — C$34,000 over 3y, 7.2% of budgetPEACE RIVER ART CLUB — C$30,950 over 1y, 19% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$30,080 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJohn Howard Society of Grande Prairie — C$27,208 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetFIRST BAPTIST CHURCH — C$26,363 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE LIVE THEATRE SOCIETY — C$24,475 over 6y, 1.8% of budgetGRADE THREE READING ACADEMY SOCIETY — C$23,850 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetFRONTIER COLLEGE — C$22,730 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION — C$22,650 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSCIENTISTS IN SCHOOL — C$22,465 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE AND AREA SAFE COMMUNITIES COMMITTEE — C$22,125 over 4y, 11% of budgetNORTHERN LAKES COLLEGE — C$21,160 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY OF GRANDE PRA — C$19,730 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetPEACE RIVER SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 10 — C$18,760 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SEXSMITH AND DISTRICT MUSEUM SOCIETY — C$18,360 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetTHE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUE FOR THE BLIND — C$17,990 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE SPIRIT FOUNDATION — C$17,665 over 2y, 0.1% 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 THE SALVATION ARMY GRANDE PRAIRIE COMMUNITY CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds GRANDE PRAIRIE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds COMPASSION HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RIVERSIDE COMPASSION HOME SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WAPITI COMMUNITY DORM SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds HIV NORTH SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds SUICIDE PREVENTION RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds NORTHWESTERN POLYTECHNIC ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR SUPPORT TO PREGNANT AND PARENTIN ↗
  • Who funds GRANDE PRAIRIE & DISTRICT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS EDUC ↗
  • Who funds GRANDE PRAIRIE PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
  • Who funds GRANDE PRAIRIE YOUTH EMERGENCY SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds GRANDE PRAIRIE HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GRANDE PRAIRIE COUNCIL FOR LIFELONG LEARNING S ↗
  • Who funds P.A.C.E.(PROVIDING ASSISTANCEM COUNSELLING AND ↗
  • Who funds MASKWA MEDICAL CENTER (CANADA) INC. ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GRANDE PRAIRIE FAMILY EDUCATION SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds THE GRANDE PRAIRIE SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 2357 ↗
  • Who funds PEACE REGIONAL OUTREACH STUDENT AND DAYCARE SUPPORT SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ELDER'S CARING SHELTER SOCIETY OF GRANDE PRAIR ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ↗
  • Who funds CENTER FOR CREATIVE ARTS SOCIETY OF GRAND PRAIRIE ↗
  • Who funds ANSO COLLECTIVES & EDUCATION SUPPORT SOCIETY ↗

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.

Abc Benefits Corporat…United Way Alberta No…Central Okanagan Burs…Cpa Education Foundat…Edmonton Oilers Commu…The Peace Wapiti Scho…Atco Electric EpicDrayton Valley Commun…History & Heroes Foun…Community Foundation …Calgary Flames Founda…The Canfor Good Thing…
Abc Benefits Corporation FoundationAB27.7× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · United Way Alberta Northwest Society · Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society · Cpa Education Foundation · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · The Peace Wapiti School Division · Atco Electric Epic · Drayton Valley Community Foundation · History & Heroes Foundation · Community Foundation of Central Alberta · Calgary Flames Foundation · The Canfor Good Things Come From Trees 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 271 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 896544343:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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