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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Pirie Foundation Non-Profit Priv Asso

Provided gifts to charitable organizations of the directors’ choice with a focus on education.

C$715k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k9 grants · C$43k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$22k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$600k
C$7,500
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTH POINT SCHOOL FOR BOYSC$600,000
FRASER INSTITUTEC$50,000
JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION CANADAC$12,000
BRENTWOOD COLLEGE SCHOOLC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$7,500
RUNDLE ACADEMYC$7,500
WEST ISLAND COLLEGEC$7,500
MONTREAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTEC$5,000
FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICYC$5,000
HURON COLLEGEC$3,500
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$3,000
JUSTICE CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMSC$2,000
MANNING FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRATIC EDUCATIONC$2,000
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.

100%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.1M · 30 repeat orgsC$25k to everyone else

30 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
2

Total granted

C$5.1M
C$17k

Still filing today

93%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$8k 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

  • NP
    NORTH POINT SCHOOL FOR BOYS
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.9M · revenue +339% · 50% of their budget
  • FI
    FRASER INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$361k · revenue +53%
  • UO
    University of Saskatchewan
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$104k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • FC
    FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k
  • HB
    HARVARD BUINESS SCHOOL
    one grant, 2021 · C$7k

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
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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2
Canadian Freedom Institute

Canadian freedom institute is committed to improving public knowledge in the principles of free market economies

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3
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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4
Banff Forum

The Banff Forum's objective is to advance education by hosting an annual forum and events across the country that bring together emerging and established leaders across all sectors and regions to enhance their leadership skills and support…

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5
Canadian Agri-Food Policy Institute L'institut Canadien Des Politiques Agro-Alimentaire

Conducting research and sharing results on existing and emerging issues in the agricultural sector. developing and assessing balanced unbiased alternatives to issues in the agricultural sector. providing industry stakeholders advice and a…

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6
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives / Centre Canadien De Politiques Alternatives

1. Social scientific research about economic social and environmental public policy issues of relevance to Canadian society. 2. Analysis of and commentary about public policy decisions and proposals. 3. Educational activities including…

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7
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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8
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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9
Balsillie School of International Affairs

The balsillie school of international affairs ('bsia' or the 'school') facilitates collaborative research among its faculty and students and conducts outreach activities guided by research priorities that the school has established…

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10
The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Foundation publishes independent fact-based journalism fiction and art in The Walrus magazine and at thewalrus.ca. The Walrus stories present a variety of perspectives on the most complex issues of our time focusing on six key…

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11
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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12
Carleton University

Carleton University provides post-secondary education.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frontier Centre for Public Policy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Webber Academy Foundation. 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

29 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. 29 of the 33 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
24/29
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNORTH POINT SCHOOL FOR BOYS — C$3,855,000 over 8y, 50% of budgetFRASER INSTITUTE — C$361,000 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of Saskatchewan — C$103,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION CANADA — C$95,400 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetBRENTWOOD COLLEGE SCHOOL — C$75,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMONTREAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTE — C$60,600 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetFrontier Centre for Public Policy — C$60,000 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetEdge School — C$35,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWebber Academy — C$35,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHURON COLLEGE — C$25,900 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetInstitute for Liberal Studies — C$25,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$24,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Cencer Foundation — C$24,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Constitution Foundation — C$18,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMANNING FOUNDAQTION FOR DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION — C$16,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetJUSTICE CENTRE FOR ONCSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS — C$15,200 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetThe Cardus Institute — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetRUNDLE ACADEMY — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetC.D HOWE INSTITUTE — C$9,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMCDONALD-LAURIER INSTITUTE — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSECONDSTREET.ORG — C$8,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWEST ISLAND COLLEGE — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetAlberta Children's Hospital Foundation — C$6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$4,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetCanada West Foundation — C$3,400 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAtlantic Institute for Market Studies — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 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.

  • Who funds NORTH POINT SCHOOL FOR BOYS ↗
  • Who funds FRASER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds University of Saskatchewan ↗
  • Who funds JUVENILE DIABETES RESEARCH FOUNDATION CANADA ↗
  • Who funds BRENTWOOD COLLEGE SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds MONTREAL ECONOMIC INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds Frontier Centre for Public Policy ↗
  • Who funds Edge School ↗
  • Who funds Webber Academy ↗
  • Who funds HURON COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds Institute for Liberal Studies ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO ↗
  • Who funds Alberta Cencer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Constitution Foundation ↗
  • Who funds MANNING FOUNDAQTION FOR DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION ↗
  • Who funds JUSTICE CENTRE FOR ONCSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS ↗
  • Who funds The Cardus Institute ↗
  • Who funds RUNDLE ACADEMY ↗
  • Who funds C.D HOWE INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds MCDONALD-LAURIER INSTITUTE ↗
  • Who funds SECONDSTREET.ORG ↗
  • Who funds WEST ISLAND COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT ↗
  • Who funds Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds SALVATION ARMY ↗
  • Who funds Canada West Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Atlantic Institute for Market Studies ↗
  • Who funds HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION ↗

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.

Hunter Family Foundat…The John Dobson Found…The Gwyn Morgan and P…Donner Canadian Found…Lotte and John Hecht …Aurea FoundationM-E Squared FoundationWeston Family Foundat…United Way of Calgary…The Arthur J E Child …The Calgary FoundationTotem Charitable Foun…
Hunter Family FoundationAB15.4× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hunter Family Foundation · The John Dobson Foundation · The Gwyn Morgan and Patricia Trottier Foundation · Donner Canadian Foundation · Lotte and John Hecht Memorial Foundation · Aurea Foundation · M-E Squared Foundation · Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Arthur J E Child Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Totem Charitable 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.

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 33 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 892835240:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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