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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Rose Foundation

Support charitable sector through gifts to registered charities as defined in subsection 248(1) of the income tax act (canada).

C$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$875k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$60k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$577k
  • C$250k+4 grants · C$2.5M
C$125,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$105M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAYC$875,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$630,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESC$530,000
CHAPEL & YORKC$500,000
FULBRIGHT CANADAC$179,660
ALBERTA WATER PORTAL SOCIETYC$125,000
TOGETHER WE STANDC$100,000
CHALONER CHILDRENS CHARITYC$100,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$72,500
KID SPORTC$30,000
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITALC$30,000
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.

73%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.0M · 7 repeat orgsC$2.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +16% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
4

Total granted

C$6.0M
C$1.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+16%
+3%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$982k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’22’23’24
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

  • QU
    QUEENS UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2019–2023 · C$1.0M · revenue +16%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    3× · 2017–2024 · C$980k · revenue +27%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES
    3× · 2017–2024 · C$608k · revenue +427%

Funded once

  • CC
    CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$1.0M · revenue -16%
  • CI
    CALGARY INTER FAITH FOODBANK
    one grant, 2023 · C$125k · revenue +5%
  • MU
    MAUI UNITED WAY
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k

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
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
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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4
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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5
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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6
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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7
Educationmatters

Advance and enhance public education in the city of calgary by providing grants to qualified donees involved in public education. the principal donee is the calgary board of education

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8
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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9
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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10
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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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Canada Waterportal Society. 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

15 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. 15 of the 17 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
15/15
Grantees still filing
6/15
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 budgetUNITED WAY — C$2,651,989 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetQUEENS UNIVERSITY — C$1,025,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$979,999 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES — C$607,711 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCHAPEL & YORK — C$500,000 over 1y, 50% of budgetSTRATHCONA TWEEDSMUIR — C$351,500 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetALBERTA WATER PORTAL SOCIETY — C$250,000 over 2y, 37% of budgetFULBRIGHT CANADA — C$179,660 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCALGARY INTER FAITH FOODBANK — C$125,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$107,711 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCHALONER CHILDRENS CHARITY — C$100,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetTOGETHER WE STAND — C$100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$72,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPROVIDENCE — C$10,000 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.

The Calgary FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
The Calgary FoundationAB8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 3 of 3Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.

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 17 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 835599499:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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