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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Riddell Family Charitable Foundation

The foundation make donations to a variety of registered charities throughout the county.

C$6.5M
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$4.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$400k
  • C$250k+4 grants · C$6.1M
C$500,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$121M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATIONC$4,000,000
PERIMETER INSTITUTE FOR THEORETICAL PHYSICSC$1,100,000
UNICEF CANADAC$500,000
PERIMETER INSTITUTE-CLAY RIDDELL PAUL DIRAC CHAIRC$500,000
CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATIONC$200,000
CANADA'S SPORT HALL OF FAMEC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY-HOTCHKISS BRAIN INSTITUTEC$50,000
UNICEF-WATER FOR LIFE GALAC$50,000
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$33M · 11 repeat orgsC$677k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
12

Total granted

C$33M
C$677k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • TA
    THE ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$9.0M · revenue +96%
  • CU
    CARLETON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$7.5M · revenue +18%
  • PI
    PERIMERER INSTITUTE FOR THORETICAL PHYSICSQ
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$6.5M · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • UW
    United way of Calgary and Area
    one grant, 2017 · C$250k · revenue -7%
  • MF
    Manning Foundation for Democratic Education
    one grant, 2017 · C$240k · revenue -22%
  • TU
    The University of British Columbiagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue +55%

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
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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3
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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4
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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5
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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6
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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7
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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8
University of Saskatchewan

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…

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9
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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10
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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11
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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12
Friends of the University of Alberta

Fund Student Scholarships and Awards Sponsor public lectures featuring University Speakers Financially support university programs to engage the broader community

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Flames Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Perimeter Institute. 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

21 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. 21 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
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 budgetTHE ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$9,000,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$7,474,354 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPERIMERER INSTITUTE FOR THORETICAL PHYSICSQ — C$6,550,000 over 8y, 9.5% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$6,200,000 over 6y, 12% of budgetUNICEF CANADA — C$2,925,000 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCANADA'S SPORTS HALL OF FAME — C$800,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetUnited way of Calgary and Area — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetManning Foundation for Democratic Education — C$240,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY - HOTCHKISS BRAIN INSTITUTE — C$150,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA — C$120,000 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetThe University of British Columbia — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Children's Hospital Foundation — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities Southern & Central Alberta — C$21,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetThe Calgary Between Friends Club-Fun and Fellowship for d... — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetAthol Murray College of Notre Dame — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Flames Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Fraser Institute — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetClassroom Champions — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCanada-Bolivia Children's Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetCalgary Homeless Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Military Family Resource Center — C$2,000 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.

United Way of Calgary…The Calgary FoundationCalgary Shaw Charity …Carthy FoundationViewpoint FoundationJewish Community Foun…Aqueduct FoundationThe Jeffrey and Maril…Werklund FoundationHunter Family Foundat…The Calgary Roman Cat…Lily Street Foundation
United Way of Calgary and AreaAB11.6× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · Aqueduct Foundation · The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation · Werklund Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Lily Street 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 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 890615396:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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