Calgary, AB · Private foundation
Praespero - An Autoimmune Research Fund
Praespero's misison is to facilitate innovation collaboration and cross-disciplinary researach that will lead us to the root causes of autoimmune disease.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$50k–250k7 grants · C$775k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$759k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO (PRESCRIBED UNIVERSITY OU | C$758,835 |
| NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (PRESCRIBED UNIVERSITY OUTSIDE CANADA) | C$150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA | C$150,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY | C$100,000 |
| SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE | C$100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA (PRESCRIBED UNIVERSITY OUTSIDE CANADA) | C$100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF UTAH (PRESCRIBED UNIVERSITY OUTSIDE CANADA) | C$100,000 |
| UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA | C$75,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 25% of grant dollars (C$1.9M). The 75% that went abroad (C$5.6M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 75% of all-years giving (C$5.6M)
1 country, 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.
11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 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, 41% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$909k 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
- TGThe Governors of The University of Calgary7× · 2018–2024 · C$750k · revenue +19%
- SRSUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE3× · 2020–2024 · C$300k · revenue +43%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA2× · 2022–2024 · C$250k · revenue +8%
Funded once
- UOUNIVSITY OF CALIFONIA SAN DIEGO (PRESCRIBED UNIVERSITY OUTSIone grant, 2023 · C$816k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA(PRESCRIBED UNIVERSITY OUTSIDE CANADone grant, 2021 · C$510k
- UOUNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO (PRESCRIBED UNIVERS.....one grant, 2019 · C$268k
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.
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…
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…
The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.
Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…
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…
Instruction and research in a university.
The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…
The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.
Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…
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.
Sunnybrook research academy (sra) is a specialized research organization 100% owned by sunnybrook health sciences centre (shsc) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the university of toronto. the vision of sra is to pursue research in…
Provide post secondary education and research in the following 1) natural resources 2) environmental studies 3) business 4) science 5) health and human science 6) arts 7) civil and environmental engineering 8) graduate studies
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre and the most unlike its peers is The Experiential Diabetes Education Group. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 27 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 Governors of The University of Calgary ↗
- Who funds SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO ↗
- Who funds University of Toronto ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA ↗
- Who funds SUNNYBROOK HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE ↗
- Who funds Connected in motion ↗
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.
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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.