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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Olympia Charitable Foundation

The primary focus and main program area of Olympia Charitable Foundation is to support registered Canadian charities that meet the criteria as outlined in our objectives.

C$493k
Granted FY2024still arriving
56
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$52k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 56 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k40 grants · C$154k
  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$288k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$52k
C$5,000
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$927k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Calgary Zoological SocietyC$51,500
Stephen's Backpacks for Children in NeedC$40,000
Dreams Take Flight CanadaC$40,000
Helping Families Handle Cancer FoundationC$35,000
Brown Bagging For Calgary Street Kids SocietyC$27,000
Parachutes for PetsC$25,000
Momentum Community Economic Development SocietyC$25,000
Kidney Foundation of Canada; Southern AlbertaC$14,000
Native Counselling Services of AlbertaC$12,000
Canadian Centre for Men and FamiliesC$10,000
Between Friends ClubC$10,000
FONDATION KRSITOPHER LETANG ET AMISC$10,000
Foothills Academy SocietyC$10,000
Glenbow Ranch Park FoundationC$10,000
Indian Residential School Survivors SocietyC$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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.0M · 57 repeat orgsC$473k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +26% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 28 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
73

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$351k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+26%

Still filing today

93%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$122k 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

  • SB
    Stephen's Backpacks for Children in Need
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$185k · revenue +123%
  • CZ
    Calgary Zoological Society
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$179k · revenue +26%
  • BB
    Brown Bagging For Calgary Street Kids Society
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$167k · revenue +134%

Funded once

  • AF
    Airdrie Food Bankgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$15k · revenue +188%
  • SA
    Southern Alberta Institute of Technologygraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue +29%
  • SO
    South Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +54%

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
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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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
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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4
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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5
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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6
Kids With Cancer Society of Northern Alberta

The Kids with Cancer Society offers programming to assist families in the following areas: Support - Provides the necessary tools to help families cope for the demands of the treatment and minimize family disruption and related stress.…

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7
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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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 Rangers Foundation

The foundation was formed to alleviate financial barriers to participating in physical activity for children in need and raises funding for this program.

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10
Calgary Health Foundation

Provide support for medical services long term care medical research and education by granting to alberta health services - calgary zone university of calgary medical school and other registered charities providing support of health care…

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11
Canucks for Kids Fund

Canucks for Kids Fund dedicates resources and time to qualified charities benefiting children youth and families by focusing on health and wellness social development education and awareness and grassroots hockey. Funding: Core…

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12
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Northern Alberta, an Alberta Society

Ronald McDonald House Charities Alberta supports families seeking vital medical treatment for their seriously ill or injured child. Our warm, compassionate Houses provide a home-away-from home for families who need to travel for medical…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcman Youth Family & Community Services Association and the most unlike its peers is Camp Carmangay. 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

156 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. 156 of the 158 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
28
Early backer (in before they grew)
148/156
Grantees still filing
95/156
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetStephen's Backpacks for Children in Need — C$185,000 over 6y, 15% of budgetCalgary Zoological Society — C$178,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBrown Bagging For Calgary Street Kids Society — C$167,000 over 6y, 2.2% of budgetHelping Families Handle Cancer Foundation — C$150,000 over 6y, 9.7% of budgetDreams take Flight Canada — C$93,000 over 3y, 8.0% of budgetParachutes for Pets — C$90,000 over 4y, 4.3% of budgetThe Salvation Army — C$70,000 over 4y, 26% of budgetCalgary Women's Emergency Shelter — C$62,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetBetween Friends Club — C$60,000 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetThe Calgary Interfaith Food Bank — C$59,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMomentum Community Economic Development Society — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetFoothills Academy Society — C$50,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOperation Eyesight Universal — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetFEED NOVA SCOITA — C$47,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetMeals on Wheels Calgary — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S LINK SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetIndian Residential School Survivors Society — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Governors of The University of Calgary — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Prostate Cancer Centre — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCanadian Association for Equality — C$30,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetGlenbow Ranch Park Foundation — C$30,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetInn From The Cold Society — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCHILD HAVEN INTERNATIONAL — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetLeukemia & Lymphoma Society — C$20,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNouveau Parcours organisme de soutien aux jeunes — C$20,000 over 2y, 50% of budgetCalgary Flames Foundation — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetThe Edge School Foundation — C$17,200 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCALGARY DREAM CENTRE — C$17,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSOCIETY FOR AUTISM SUPPORT AND SERVICES — C$15,440 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCanuck Place Children's Hospice — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S WISH FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Children's Hospital Foundation — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAirdrie Food Bank — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetKidney Foundation of Canada; Southern Alberta — C$14,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUps and Downs-Calgary Down Syndrome Association — C$13,000 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetHalifax Transition House Association — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetALBERTA ANIMAL RESCUE CREW SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetKids Cancer Care Foundation — C$10,422 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary and District Foster Parents Association — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSouthern Alberta Institute of Technology — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSouth Okanagan Similkameen Medical Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIWK HEALTH CENTRE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBearspaw Glendale Community Association — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFood Banks British Columbia — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Calgary Flames Founda…Cenovus Employee Foun…Atco Electric EpicNickle Family Foundat…Viewpoint FoundationThe Calgary FoundationAtco Gas Employees' C…The Calgary Roman Cat…Carthy FoundationCalgary Shaw Charity …United Way of Calgary…Kids Up Front Foundat…
Calgary Flames FoundationAB27.8× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Flames Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Nickle Family Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Carthy Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary)

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 158 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 2024-03-31, 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 835162405:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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