Calgary, AB · Private foundation
Ross-Lynn Charitable Foundation
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Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k34 grants · C$96k
- C$10k–50k5 grants · C$65k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$160k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| UNITED WAY CALGARY | C$100,000 |
| CHRIST CHURCH | C$60,000 |
| MUSTARD SEED | C$20,000 |
| CANADIAN RED CROSS | C$15,000 |
| OPERATION EYESIGHT | C$10,000 |
| PRIMATE WORLD RELIEF | C$10,000 |
| SALVATION ARMY | C$10,000 |
| FOOD BANK | C$7,500 |
| THE ALEX | C$5,000 |
| CHILDRENS COTTAGE SOCIETY | C$5,000 |
| AVENUE 15 | C$5,000 |
| BABY'S BREATH | C$5,000 |
| INN FROM THE COLD | C$5,000 |
| SIMON HOUSE | C$5,000 |
| FEAR IS NOT LOVE CALG WOMESN EMERG SI | C$5,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 61% of grant dollars (C$1.7M). The 39% that went abroad (C$1.1M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 39% of all-years giving (C$1.1M)
0 countries, 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.
37 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2024, 13 since wound down; 15 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, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$47k 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
- IFINN FROM THE COLD2× · 2019–2024 · C$405k · revenue +31%
- CWCAIG WOMESN EMERGENCY SHELTER3× · 2019–2024 · C$110k · revenue +38%
- OEOPERATION EYESIGHT4× · 2017–2024 · C$21k · revenue +70%
Funded once
- IFINN FROM THE COLDone grant, 2021 · C$400k
- CPCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2019 · C$300k · revenue -40%
- CPCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARYone grant, 2021 · C$300k
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.
Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness. Providing grants to qualified donees and other community organizations to assist individuals experiencing homelessness…
The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre provides access to a spectrum of care that supports adults at risk of homelessness to the most independent living possible - including various emergency shelter programs and services and affordable and…
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…
CASA Mental Health delivers holistic culturally safe wrap-around mental health services to Albertans aged 3 - 18 and their families. Major programs include Residential and Day Programs that consist of CASA House Preschool Day Programs…
Calgary Keys to Recovery Society provides housing and case management services to at risk individuals upon their exit from addictions treatment.
1. provide a support and information line available to anyone who is dealing with or has been affected by the various forms of sexual assault or sexual abuse. 2. provide 24 hour hospital call out: through the calgary sexual assault team…
The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary aims to prevent harm and neglect to all children and to build strong families through support services respite programs and a crisis nursery in and around Calgary. The programs offered by the…
Calgary family therapy centre provides a mental health treatment program for children and their families who are experiencing difficulties. it is a clinical outpatient therapy program that offers specialized services in family therapy. the…
BEAM Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of kids & youth in Calgary Alberta. Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable wellness programs to children and youth who are…
Homespace society is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to creatively apply expertise to increase and manage the number of affordable and specialized housing units in calgary
The calgary police foundation (cpf)operates under the name of the calgary police youth foundation. it's purpose is to educate youth about good citizenship safe communities policing and avoiding victimization and criminality. cpf does this…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Calgary and Area and the most unlike its peers is Cantare Children's Choir Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
34 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. 34 of the 76 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 INN FROM THE COLD ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY CALGARY ↗
- Who funds CALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY ↗
- Who funds CHRIST CHURCH ↗
- Who funds CAIG WOMESN EMERGENCY SHELTER ↗
- Who funds OPERATION EYESIGHT ↗
- Who funds THE ALEX ↗
- Who funds Salvation Army ↗
- Who funds BABY'S BREATH ↗
- Who funds LUNA SERVICES ↗
- Who funds CALGARY COUNCILLING SERVICES ↗
- Who funds MAID BY MOMMA ↗
- Who funds AVENUE 15 ↗
- Who funds MT ST FRANCIS ↗
- Who funds BROWN BAGGIN FRO CALGARY KIDS ↗
- Who funds SIMON HOUSE ↗
- Who funds BOW VALLEY (CANMORE) FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds DISTRESS CENTER ↗
- Who funds CALGARY DREAM CENTRE ↗
- Who funds Samaritan's Purse ↗
- Who funds TRINITY PLACE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds U OF C HOTKISS BRIAN INSTITUE ↗
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.
Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Atco Electric Epic · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · Carthy Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Children's Hospital Aid Society · Hunter Family 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.