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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Palix Foundation

The Palix Foundation was established to receive gifts to manage and administer funds and property for the purpose of disbursing funds and property exclusively to qualified donees and to undertake charitable purposes including the advancement of education and learning the advancement of religion and the relief of poverty by such means…

C$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
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Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$35,212
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Synergos Global Philanthropists CircleC$35,212
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.

Your giving at home — 23% of grant dollars (C$561k). The 77% that went abroad (C$1.9M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 77% of all-years giving (C$1.9M)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$460k · 3 grants

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.0M · 8 repeat orgsC$481k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
15

Total granted

C$2.0M
C$481k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+1%

Still filing today

63%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • AC
    Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$150k · revenue +65%
  • UO
    University of Calgary
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$104k · revenue +27%
  • PF
    Philanthropic Foundations Canada
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$16k · revenue +96%

Funded once

  • FS
    Fulbright Scholars Canadagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$188k · revenue +25%
  • MC
    Mayo Clinic
    one grant, 2018 · C$62k
  • UO
    University of Pittsburgh
    one grant, 2017 · C$51k

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.

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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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2
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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3
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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4
Alberta Council for Environmental Education

Work collaboratively to advance environmental education in Alberta. Move environmental education from the margins to mainstream by harnessing youth voice to guide decision makers increasing students environmental and climate literacy and…

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5
Friends of the University of Alberta

Fund Student Scholarships and Awards Sponsor public lectures featuring University Speakers Financially support university programs to engage the broader community

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6
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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Educationmatters

Advance and enhance public education in the city of calgary by providing grants to qualified donees involved in public education. the principal donee is the calgary board of education

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8
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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9
Alberta School Councils' Association

The organization facilitates the exchange of relevant information and views with respect to alberta's public education system between members partners and government. the core business is comprised of a number of activites focused on the…

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10
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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11
St Mary's University

St. Mary’s University is an independent Catholic University that provides innovative teaching and research and offers accredited degrees in Liberal Arts Sciences and Education. Located on a historic site in Calgary Alberta StMU inspires…

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Government of the Province of Alberta

Alberta health services (ahs) is mandated by the government of alberta for the delivery and operation of the public health system in alberta. ahs is also responsible to: - promote and protect the health of the population and work towards…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is War Stories 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

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 23 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
9/15
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFulbright Scholars Canada — C$187,575 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetAlberta Children's Hospital Foundation — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$104,246 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFamily Centre Society of Southern Alberta — C$46,937 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetPhilanthropic Foundations Canada — C$15,947 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetPolicyWise for Children and Families — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTanzanian Children's Fund of Canada — C$10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetWar Stories Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 71% of budgetUniversity of Alberta — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetROMAN CATHOLIC BISHOP OF THE DIOCESE OF CALGARY — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWorld Vision — C$4,340 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Lethbridge — C$2,489 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Family Service — C$2,030 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRoots of Empathy — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Clubs Big Brothers Big Sisters of Edmonton&Area — C$500 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.

United Way of Calgary…Atco Gas Employees' C…The Calgary FoundationUnited Way of the Alb…Vancouver FoundationRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charities Aid Foundat…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
United Way of Calgary and AreaAB8.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · The Calgary Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Vancouver Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada

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 23 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 873966295:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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