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Prairie Crocus Foundation

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C$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
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

  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$200k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$20,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$4.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alberta Theatre ProjectsC$50,000
Storybook TheatreC$20,000
Meals on WheelsC$20,000
Kidsport Canada Calgary and AreaC$20,000
Calgary Seniors Resource SocietyC$20,000
Youth Centres of CalgaryC$20,000
WordfestC$20,000
Calgary Public Library FoundationC$20,000
Alberta Playwrights SocietyC$20,000
Calgary Homicide Support GroupC$10,000
The Veterans Food Bank of CalgaryC$10,000
Calgary Foundation : Not in my CityC$10,000
Lunchbox TheatreC$10,000
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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.0M · 15 repeat orgsC$212k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
14

Total granted

C$1.0M
C$202k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+22%

Still filing today

93%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • ST
    Storybook Theatre
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$105k · revenue +14%
  • WF
    Word Fest
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$80k · revenue +11%
  • CP
    CALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (MY FIRST BOOKSHELF)
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$80k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • MO
    Meals on Wheels
    one grant, 2020 · C$40k
  • YC
    Youth Centres of Calgary
    one grant, 2020 · C$20k
  • WC
    Wheatland Crisis Society
    one grant, 2020 · C$20k · revenue +13%

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
Theatre Calgary

Professional theatre company

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2
Theatre Alberta Society

Theatre Alberta Society is a provincial arts service organization that proudly serves theatre artists enthusiasts students educators and community and professional theatre companies from across Alberta. We are dedicated to encouraging the…

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3
Calgary Arts Foundation

Calgary arts foundation was created to generate financial support for the calgary arts sector. the foundation is focused on the arts creative industries and cultural sector to strengthen existing programs that support organizations artists…

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4
Calgary International Fringe Festival Society

The Calgary Fringe strives to support all artists of any discipline by offering opportunities that offer a hand up and not a hand out. We strive to offer Calgarians an opportunity to built community through the theatrical and performing…

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5
Ghost River Theatre Society

Ghost River Theatre’s artistic mandate is to approach the creation of live performance in the spirit of collaboration – devising and presenting original Canadian theatre that is innovative accessible and highly theatrical. Our productions…

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6
Calgary Performing Arts Festival Society

An annual performing arts festival involving approximately 10 000 youth who have an opportunity to perform in front of a live audience and receive written and oral feedback from professional adjudicators in 17 different categories…

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7
Chatterbox Theatre Society

Chatterbox Theatre Society continued the Summer Story Writing Project offered to teens in Calgary through the virtual platform. The project involved fostering the collaboration of students to create two children’s stories based on the…

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8
Sage Theatre Society

To produce professional local theater to enhance the calgary aris oosyslom and to use that experience to provide young and emerging artists an opportunity to develop and showcase their skills and to launch their careers in the arts field.

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9
Calgary International Film Festival Society

The calgary international film festival (ciff) is a 12 day showcase of up to 200 multi-genre films from canada and over 40 countries. the festival hosts gala events award ceremonies and special presentations. we host a large number of…

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10
Contemporary Calgary Arts Society

Public art gallery dedicated to the exhibition education and discussion of contemporary art including the presentation of curated exhibitions speaker series publications public events and activities independently and in partnership with…

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11
Calgary Philharmonic Society

The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra is a pillar of Calgary's vibrant arts community and since 1955 has grown to be one of Calgary's most celebrated live music ensembles. Each season the Calgary Philharmonic presents classical masterworks…

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12
Calgary Cinematheque Society

The calgary cinematheque a non-profit film society is committed to showcasing compelling thought-provoking and indispensable works of cinematic art in calgary. through carefully curated weekly screenings of art cinema calgary cinematheque…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Seniors Resource Society and the most unlike its peers is The Esther Honens International Piano Competition 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

25 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. 25 of the 30 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
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 budgetStorybook Theatre — C$105,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetCalgary Seniors Resources Society — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetAlberta Theatre Projects — C$85,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetWord Fest — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION (MY FIRST BOOKSHELF) — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetALBERTA PLAYWRIGHTS — C$80,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetLUNCHBOX THEATRE — C$70,000 over 5y, 3.8% of budgetYOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARY — C$60,000 over 3y, 4.0% of budgetCalgary Reads — C$60,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetVertigo Theatre — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Calgary Foundation : Not In My City — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetParkinson s Association of Alberta — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetThe Veterans Food Bank of Calgary — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetWheatland Crisis Society — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetCUPS Calgary Society — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlberta Children s Hospital Foundation : Mental Health Facil — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROSEBUD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetArts Common - National Geographic Live — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHospice Calgary : Children s Grief Centre — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANADA LEARNING CODE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCentre for Newcomers — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY HOMICIDE SUPPORT GROUP — C$10,000 over 1y, 80% of budgetPALS — C$10,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetHonens — C$1,800 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

The Calgary FoundationRozsa FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Cenovus Employee Foun…Nickle Family Foundat…Calgary Shaw Charity …Harry and Martha Cohe…Atco Electric EpicRotary Club of Calgar…Place2Give FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…Carthy Foundation
The Calgary FoundationAB16.2× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Rozsa Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund · Place2Give Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Carthy 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 30 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 724235916:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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