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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Purple Platypus

1.

C$125k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$60k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$10,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETYC$50,000
ALBERTA CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$20,000
KIDS SPORTS CANADA NATIONAL OFFICEC$10,000
YMCA CALGARYC$10,000
LIONHEART FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CONTEMPORARY CALGARY ARTS SOCIETYC$10,000
ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATIONC$8,000
CALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATIONC$5,000
FONDATION DU CLUB DE HOCKEY CANADIENC$1,500
QRII HEALTH SCIENCE CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$150
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$389k · 9 repeat orgsC$51k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

C$389k
C$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+44%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$22k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • MC
    MOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$102k · revenue +11%
  • AC
    ALBERTA CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$100k · revenue +20%
  • MA
    MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY
    4× · 2020–2023 · C$55k · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • YC
    YWCA CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -6%
  • CI
    CALGARY INTER - FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +38%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · 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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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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2
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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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
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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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 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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7
Calgary Health Foundation

Provide support for medical services long term care medical research and education by granting to alberta health services - calgary zone university of calgary medical school and other registered charities providing support of health care…

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8
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment…

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9
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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10
Calgary Eye Foundation

Foundation supports calgary's ophthalmology program through enhanced education research and program development.

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11
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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12
Hockey Alberta Foundation

The hockey alberta foundation supports numerous charities/qualified donees to assist in helping kids families and communities access equipment programs mentorship and leadership development with the goal of providing opportunities for kids…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Homeless Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Mount Allison University. 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

22 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. 22 of the 23 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
14/22
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 budgetMOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY — C$102,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetLIONHEART FOUNDATION — C$38,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCONTEMPORARY CALGARY ARTS SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetYWCA CALGARY — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$13,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA CALGARY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY INTER - FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF NEW BRUNSWICK — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOOD'S HOMES FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFONDATION DU CLUB DE HOCKEY CANADIEN — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WALRUS FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$502 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQEII HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE AUXILIARY — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMPACT SOCIETY CALGARY — C$159 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQRII HEALTH SCIENCE CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY — C$150 over 1y, 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.

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.

Viewpoint FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…The Calgary FoundationAqueduct FoundationCalgary Shaw Charity …Carthy FoundationBenefAction FoundationCanada GivesHunter Family Foundat…Lily Street FoundationMobile Giving Foundat…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
Viewpoint FoundationAB11.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Viewpoint Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Carthy Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Canada Gives · Hunter Family Foundation · Lily Street Foundation · Mobile Giving Foundation Canada / Fondation des dons mobiles du Canada · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation

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 23 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 785221680:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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