Calgary, AB · Private foundation
Open Sky
Aggregation of investment income to fund other charitable organizations
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k9 grants · C$32k
- C$10k–50k6 grants · C$97k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| SHAMBHALA CANADA SOCIETY | C$28,000 |
| DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA | C$17,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF HALIFAX REGION | C$15,000 |
| NAROPA UNIVERSITY | C$15,000 |
| QEII HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION | C$11,500 |
| ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE | C$10,000 |
| NALANDA FOUNDATION | C$8,000 |
| HOSPICE SOCIETY OF GREATER HALIFAX | C$5,000 |
| SEVA CANADA SOCIETY | C$5,000 |
| NOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUST | C$3,000 |
| NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION | C$3,000 |
| SIERRA CLUB CANADA FOUNDATION | C$2,000 |
| HOPE FOR WILDLIFE SOCIETY | C$2,000 |
| HALIFAX TRANSITION HOUSE ASSOCIATION | C$2,000 |
| LOTUS OUTREACH SOCIETY CANADA | C$2,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 83% of grant dollars (C$449k). The 17% that went abroad (C$89k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 17% of all-years giving (C$89k)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- DWDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA6× · 2019–2024 · C$75k · revenue +37%
- UWUNITED WAY OF HALIFAX REGION6× · 2019–2024 · C$59k · revenue +120%
- NFNALADA FOUNDATION6× · 2019–2024 · C$47k · revenue +271%
Funded once
- UEULNOOWEG EDUCATION CENTREgraduatedone grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue ×16
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Coastal Action established in December 1993 is a charitable organization that addresses environmental concerns throughout the South Shore region of Nova Scotia and beyond. Our goal is to promote the restoration enhancement and conservation…
As Canada’s largest environmental charity the Nature Conservancy of Canada (NCC) has worked with partners to conserve natural landscapes since 1962. Together we deliver solutions to address the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate…
Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to…
1. Historical restoration of structures 2. Waterway promotion 3. Waterway infrastructure improvements 4. Education and outreach 5. Community programs 6. In memoriam contributions for waterway and trails
Nature Nova Scotia (also known as the Federation of Nova Scotia Naturalists) exists to aid in the communication and cooperation among naturalists natural history societies and other nature-focused groups in Nova Scotia. We profile and…
Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…
Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…
Forest Conservation Environmental education awareness programs in BC schools Climate change awareness Community engagement Mother tree local leaders program Restoring our relationships with nature Building capacity for indigenous-led…
conducts research delivers educational programs and publishes materials that advance the public appreciation of and strengthen protections for Nova Scotias built heritage; provides resources that assist the stewards of heritage buildings…
Provides support of seamanship education through providing scholarships to training programs.
Oceans north conservation society’s mandate is to promote the conservation of canada’s northern oceans and the resulting well-being of people and communities who rely upon its natural wealth
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Seva Canada Society and the most unlike its peers is Nalanda Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 17 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA ↗
- Who funds SHAMBHALA CANADA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF HALIFAX REGION ↗
- Who funds NALADA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QEII HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ECOLOGY ACTION CENTRE ↗
- Who funds SEVA CANADA SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HOSPICE SOCIETY OF GREATER HALIFAX ↗
- Who funds NOVA SCOTIA NATURE TRUST ↗
- Who funds NAMO BUDDHA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LOTUS OUTREACH SOCIETY CANADA ↗
- Who funds HALIFAX TRANSITION HOUSE ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds SIERRA CLUB OF CANADA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds HOPE FOR WILDLIFE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ULNOOWEG EDUCATION 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.
Open a dossier: The Community Foundation of Nova Scotia Society · Private Giving Foundation · United Way Maritimes/Centraide des Maritimes · United Way of Greater Moncton and Southeastern New Brunswick Region Inc\Centraide de la Region Du Grand Moncton Et Du Sud Est Du Nouveau-Brunswick Inc · Doane Grant Thornton Foundation · George F. Wade Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Nature Canada / Canada Nature · Sisters of Charity Mount Saint Vincent · United Way of Prince Edward Island · Makeway Foundation · United Way British Columbia
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.