Calgary, AB · Charitable organization
Royal Canadian Legion Branch Poppy Fund
The organization raises funds through the annual 'poppy campaign' to enable it to provide financial and non-financial assistance to veterans and their dependents.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CALGARY MILITARY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE | C$4,000 |
| CALGARY MILITARY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE | C$4,000 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 1 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, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$8k 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
- HFHomes for Heros2× · 2018–2019 · C$255k · revenue +249%
- LPLegacy Place Society2× · 2018–2019 · C$130k · revenue +80%
- CHCALGARY HEALTH FOUNDATION2× · 2017–2023 · C$30k · revenue +10%
Funded once
- BCBETHANY CARE SOCIETYone grant, 2023 · C$51k · revenue +4%
- OOtherone grant, 2017 · C$5k
- HCHospice Calgaryone grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +19%
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.
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…
Building and providing temporary accommodations and providing support to first responders such as: Military Police Paramedics Fire Fighters etc. Honour Ranch is continually adding new programs to fulfil the same function with a focus on…
1. Crisis Intervention Services 2. Supported Living 3. Supported employment 4. Volunteer opportunities for persons with mental illness 5. Volunteer support settings 6. Community Housing Outreach
Alberta Caregivers Association (o/a Caregivers Alberta) is an organization of caregivers for caregivers. The mission is to empower caregivers and promote their wellbeing. They do so by providing group and one-on-one supports increasing…
Calgary Keys to Recovery Society provides housing and case management services to at risk individuals upon their exit from addictions treatment.
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
Covenant Health is an operator of health facilities and programs in the province of Alberta. The facilities provides a range of health care services including acute care assisted living hospice rehabilitation and respite care and senior's…
Education: provide information and training on mental health and wellness housing first: on-site support for tenants with previous homelessness support to adult with brain injuries supporting clients with serious mental illness based on…
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 alpha house society provides safe and caring environments for individuals whose lives are affected by alcohol and other drug dependencies. our continuum of programs helps connect these individuals with multiple levels of support…
Working to educate the public about mental health issues and offer services to those in need of mental health help through: workplace mental health training & conferences peer support programming post secondary community of practice…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hospice Calgary Society and the most unlike its peers is Homes for Heroes Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
12 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.
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.
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: United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Cenovus Employee Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act
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.