Edmonton, AB · Public foundation
Polonia Foundation in Alberta
The hedinger family scholarship is administrated by the POLONIA FOUNDATION IN ALBERTA.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k9 grants · C$25k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE CANADIAN POLISH CONGRESS | C$10,000 |
| POLONEZ POLISH FOLK ARTS ENSAMBLE | C$5,000 |
| CANADIAN POLISH LANGUAGE AND CULTURE ASSOCIATION | C$5,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF THE HOLY ROSARY | C$3,000 |
| THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF OUR LADY QUEEN OF PLAND | C$3,000 |
| CANADIAN POLISH YOUTH FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY | C$3,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA | C$2,000 |
| MAZURKA MUSIC AND ART SOCIETY | C$2,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$1,000 |
| CJSR FM 88.5 | C$500 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 76% of grant dollars (C$136k). The 24% that went abroad (C$42k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 24% of all-years giving (C$42k)
0 countries, 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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +17% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.
10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9k 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
- CPCanadian Polish Millennium Fund2× · 2017–2018 · C$10k · revenue +227%
- TMTHE MAGDA TOMOZAK CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION3× · 2018–2022 · C$7k · revenue +17% · 29% of their budget
- TCTHE CATHOLIC PARISH OF THE HOLY ROSARY2× · 2023–2024 · C$5k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- S(Sisem (Daycare) Centre Societyone grant, 2017 · C$6k · revenue -12%
- TCTHE CHRISTMAS BUREAU OF EDMONTONone grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue -8%
- CPCANADIAN POLISH LEGACY SOCIETY OF EDMONTONone grant, 2022 · C$5k
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.
Granting financial assistance to polish canadian cultural events sponsoring polish canadian events and granting scholarships to canadian university/college students studying in canada.
In the name of and spirit of his holiness pope john paul ii to aid and assist orphans and abandoned children in all polish communities in canada and abroad both financially and spiritually.
In the name of and spirit of his holiness pope john paul ii to aid abandoned children in all polish communities in canada and abroad both financially and spiritually.
The charity is an independent non profit organization whose main purpose is to help improve the facilities and care for children living in polish orphanages and extends its aid to all canadians from all ethnio backgrounds for the benefit…
The charity donates funds to social activities that help within the canadian polish community
The hedinger family scholarship is administrated by the polonia foundation in alberta. the foundation may award scholarships annually to full-time students in their third and fourth year of undergraduated study at uofa and uofc.…
1. promotion of polish authors and poets living in canada 2. publishing books essays poetry and other literary forms 3. marketing campaign to promote fund's statutory objectives 4. organization and participating in numerous literary and…
Ongoing programs: a. preserve the polish language history culture social heritage and traditions inclusive of those of the polish combatants settled in car1ada and abroad ; b. generally promote raise awareness of and respect for poland's…
The polish foundation promotes social & cultural activities for the benefit of canadian of polish origin living in qc; -the foundation awards grants to other organizations qualified donees which execute the foundation's program: polish…
1. Support and care for armed forces veterans who are Impoverished; and 2. Support undergraduate graduate and post-graduate students In Canada; and 3. To support and promote education in the Polish language and Polish history in Canada; a.…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Charitable Foundation of the Canadian Polish Congress and the most unlike its peers is Sisem (Daycare) Centre Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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. 12 of the 41 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 THE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION OF THE CANADIAN POLISH CONGRESS ↗
- Who funds Canadian Polish Millennium Fund ↗
- Who funds POLISH CANADIAN HUMANITARIAN SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE MAGDA TOMOZAK CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds Sisem (Daycare) Centre Society ↗
- Who funds THE CHRISTMAS BUREAU OF EDMONTON ↗
- Who funds THE CANADIAN POLISH-RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF THE HOLY ROSARY ↗
- Who funds THE CATHOLIC PARISH OF OUR LADY QUEEN OF PLAND ↗
- Who funds OUR LADY QUEEN OF PACE PARISH ↗
- Who funds Knights of Columbus Charitable Foundation ↗
- Who funds THE POLISH HERITAGE SOCIETY OF EDMONTON ↗
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: Polish Canadian Humanitarian Society · The Magda Tomczak Children's Aid Foundation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon
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.