Calgary, AB · Private foundation
P.E.A.R.L. Foundation
The purpose of the foundation is to make gifts to organizations which are qualified donees under the income tax act of canada.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k5 grants · C$145k
- C$50k–250k7 grants · C$395k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Inn From the Cold | C$65,000 |
| Hope Air | C$60,000 |
| West Toronto Keys to Inclusion | C$60,000 |
| Fear is Not Love | C$60,000 |
| Childrens Cottage Society | C$50,000 |
| Right to Learn Afghanistan | C$50,000 |
| Discovery House Family Violence Prevention Society | C$50,000 |
| Big Hill Haven | C$39,510 |
| CUPS Calgary Society | C$30,000 |
| Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan | C$30,000 |
| Women's Centre of Calgary | C$25,000 |
| Vermont Square Parent-Child-mother Goose Program | C$20,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
15 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 4 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
- IFInn From the Cold8× · 2017–2024 · C$425k · revenue +40%
- HAHope Air8× · 2017–2024 · C$410k · revenue +258%
- WTWest Toronto Keys to Inclusion8× · 2017–2024 · C$365k · revenue +157% · 40% of their budget
Funded once
- BSBIG SISTERS AND BIG BROTHERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY & AREAone grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue 0%
- DHDISCOVERY HOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · C$30k
- HCHUMANITARIAN COALITIONone grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue -30%
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.
Residential shelter: our shelter is designed for women and children who have traversed the harrowing landscape of family violence and abuse. with 24 units we provide an 18 month program that supports clients in navigatingthe practical and…
Safe refuge for battered women and their children child support program intensive case management volunteer training public education/professional training emotional support safety planning risk assessment
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…
United way of calgary and area is a 100% local charity that brings together donors corporations agencies and government to solve complex issues and improve lives. we strategically invest in local agencies and collaboratives to create…
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…
Frontline training and education to shelter and community organisations. one of our training programs trains shelter workers on providing support and safety to children who have been exposed to domestic violence. we coordinate the…
Calgary Keys to Recovery Society provides housing and case management services to at risk individuals upon their exit from addictions treatment.
Based in Edmonton Youth Empowerment & Support Services (YESS) provides 24/7 singe-point-of-access to immediate and low-barrier physical mental cultural and emotional health supports and safe places to stay for youth aged 15-21 who are…
We provide 1.safe supportive housing to women and children fleeing violence; 2.emergency shelter to women and children experiencing homelessness; 3.safe affordable housing to single women including support regarding life skills problem…
Yw calgary supports women and their families in meeting their immediate and most basic needs and works directly with them to create positive and long-lasting change in their lives. we believe that healthy women and healthy families lead to…
Calgary alpha house society provides safe and caring environments for individuals whose lives are affected by alcohol and other drug dependencies. our continuum of programs helps connect these individuals with multiple levels of support…
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…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary an Alberta Society and the most unlike its peers is Right to Learn Afghanistan. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
17 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. 17 of the 18 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 Inn From the Cold ↗
- Who funds Hope for the Nations ↗
- Who funds Hope Air ↗
- Who funds West Toronto Keys to Inclusion ↗
- Who funds CALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ENDOWMENT FUND TRUST ↗
- Who funds THE CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARY ↗
- Who funds Discovery House Family Violence Prevention Society ↗
- Who funds THE BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CALGARY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Right to Learn Afghanistan ↗
- Who funds CALGARY URBAN PROJECT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds VERMONT SQUARE PARENT-CHILD MOTHER GOOSE PROGRAM ↗
- Who funds Cochrane Women's Emergency Shelter Society ↗
- Who funds Fear is Not Love ↗
- Who funds Trellis Society for Community Impact ↗
- Who funds Women's Centre of Calgary ↗
- Who funds BIG SISTERS AND BIG BROTHERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY & AREA ↗
- Who funds HUMANITARIAN COALITION ↗
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: Atco Electric Epic · Canada Gives · United Way of Calgary and Area · BenefAction Foundation · The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Private Giving Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · Raymond James Canada 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.