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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Pareto Foundation

The foundation provide gifts to qualified donees

C$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$11k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$10,689
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$13M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CENTRAL OKANAGAN FOOD BANKC$10,689
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.2M · 8 repeat orgsC$175k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +90% since the first grant, against -2% 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
7

Total granted

C$3.2M
C$175k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+90%
-2%

Still filing today

88%
86%

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

  • WC
    WELLSPRING CALGARY
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$2.1M · revenue +93%
  • CF
    CENTRE FOR AFFORDABLE WATER
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$550k · revenue +117%
  • AC
    Alberta Cancer Foundation
    3× · 2017–2021 · C$300k · revenue +169%

Funded once

  • RC
    RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue -47%
  • NW
    NSW WILDLIFE INFORMATION RESCUE AND EDUCATION SERVICE
    one grant, 2020 · C$25k
  • CN
    CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue +24%

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.

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Right to Food

Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC) builds and supports vibrant food-focused organizations in low-income communities across the country that bring people together to grow cook share and advocate for policies that improve the health and…

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2
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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3
Canadian Nutrition Society Food for Health Foundation
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4
Canadian Agri-Food Foundation
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5
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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6
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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7
Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation

Charitable status was received on April 1 2018 and CAHF has been in a set up phase since that time. In this current fiscal year there has been activity related to preparing to deliver charitable activities which can be described as…

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8
Canadian Cancer Society - SociÉTÉ Canadienne Du Cancer

The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We raise funds to fuel the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer across Canada and for all…

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9
Community Foundation of Central Alberta

The foundation is a community catalyst committed to growing a legacy which strengthens the quality of life in red deer and central alberta. activities in support of their mission include: working with donors to enable them to meet their…

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10
Calgary Meals On Wheels

CALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS IS A LEADER IN PROVIDING HEALTHY LOCALLY MADE MEALS TO OUR CITY 365 DAYS A YEAR. WE TAKE PRIDE IN MAKING NUTRITIOUS & AFFORDABLE MEALS FRESH FROM OUR FACILITY TO THOUSANDS OF VULNERABLE CALGARIANS EACH YEAR. OUR…

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11
Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada

Food banks canada's mission is to provide national leadership to relieve hunger today and prevent hunger tomorrow in collaboration with the food bank network in canada. food banks canada is a national charitable organization dedicated to…

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12
C.D. Howe Institute

The c.d. howe institute is a registered charity and an independent not-for-profit research institute whose mission is to raise living standards by fostering economically sound public policies. widely considered to be canada's most…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Parkdale Community Food Bank and the most unlike its peers is Centre for Affordable Water and Sanitation Technology (Cawst). 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

13 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. 13 of the 15 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)
13/13
Grantees still filing
7/13
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWELLSPRING CALGARY — C$2,100,000 over 7y, 13% of budgetCENTRE FOR AFFORDABLE WATER — C$550,000 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetAlberta Cancer Foundation — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRED CROSS — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJESSIE'S - THE JUNE CALLWOOD CENTRE FOR YOUNG WOMEN — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAUNT LEAH'S PLACE — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN FOOD BANK — C$24,355 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPARKDALE COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetPARKDALE COMMUNITY LEGAL SERVICES — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPLACE 2 GIVE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Private Giving Founda…Canada GivesTELUS Friendly Future…The Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…United Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…
Private Giving FoundationON8.4× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Private Giving Foundation · Canada Gives · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto

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 15 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 2024-08-31, 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 854164076:2024-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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