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Sam Ousher Switzer Charitable Foundation

Charitable foundation - donations

C$1.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
32
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k21 grants · C$74k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$71k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$735k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$500k
C$5,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALGARY BETH TZEDEC CONGREGATION SOCIETYC$500,000
CENTRAL ORGANIZATION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION LUBAVITCHC$200,000
CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATIONC$175,000
CALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATIONC$165,000
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$75,000
JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CALGARYC$70,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES CALGARYC$50,000
THE CANADIAN SOCIETY FOR THE WEIZMAN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCEC$25,000
CALGARY MEALS ON WHEELSC$18,000
FRESH START RECOVERY CENTREC$18,000
CANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM FOR ISRAELC$10,000
ALPINE CANADAC$5,500
SHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
ROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY AT STAMPEDE PARKC$5,000
OPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL CANADAC$5,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.3M · 48 repeat orgsC$304k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 19 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
21

Total granted

C$5.3M
C$229k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+20%

Still filing today

92%
76%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$75k 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

  • HP
    HERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$820k · revenue +35%
  • CS
    CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$557k · revenue +51%
  • CB
    CALGARY BETH TZEDEC CONGREGATION SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$543k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • JF
    JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES CALGARY
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k
  • EC
    EDMONTON CHEVRA KADISHA
    one grant, 2021 · C$36k · revenue -3%
  • ET
    EDMONTON TALMUD TORAH SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$27k · revenue +84%

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 Friends of the Calgary Jewish Academy Trust

The charitycontinues to receive donations and investment revenue and to make allocations to 'the calgary jewish academy'

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2
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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3
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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4
The Edmonton Jewish Community Charitable Foundation

The edmonton jewish community charitable foundation (ejccf) helps support jewish causes that are important to them. we provide resources to make the community's vision a reality working in partnership with our donors and striving to ensure…

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5
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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6
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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7
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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8
Calgary Community Kollel Society

Providing educational social and recreational programs to Jewish adults and children.

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9
Calgary Public Library Foundation

The Calgary Public Library Foundation's sole purpose is to raise funds for the Calgary Public Library to enhance programs and services provided to Calgarians.

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10
Calgary Arts Academy Foundation

In support of the calgary arts academy society to advance arts immersion in education so support capital endeavors for the society.

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11
Alberta Cancer Foundation

The alberta cancer foundation provides funds for cancer research the prevention detection education and diagnosis of cancer and for the treatment and care of cancer patients within alberta.

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12
Calgary Jewish Community Campus Corporation

Operation of a community centre which provides social fitness recreational and cultural programs for both jewish and non-jewish community members of all ages including children teenagers adults and seniors. operation of a day care and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Alcove Addiction Recovery for Women 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

64 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. 64 of the 72 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
62/64
Grantees still filing
42/64
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHERITAGE PARK FOUNDATION — C$820,000 over 5y, 16% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$556,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCALGARY BETH TZEDEC CONGREGATION SOCIETY — C$543,000 over 5y, 23% of budgetCENTRAL ORGANIZATION FOR JEWISH EDUCATION LUBAVITCH — C$366,300 over 6y, 9.1% of budgetCALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION — C$347,700 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF CALGARY — C$255,000 over 4y, 3.8% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICES CALGARY — C$225,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetCANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM FOR ISRAEL — C$220,000 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$179,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$178,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH START RECOVERY CENTRE — C$168,000 over 6y, 1.2% of budgetCALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS — C$165,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetWEIZMANN CANADA — C$125,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetMOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetALCOVE ADDICTION RECOVERY — C$75,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetCALGARY JEWISH FEDERATION — C$69,600 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetSILVERS FOR SENIORS — C$65,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetEDMONTON GLEANERS ASSOCIATION — C$45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP B'RITH SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetEDMONTON CHEVRA KADISHA — C$36,000 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetCONGREGATION HOUSE OF JACOB MIKVEH ISRAEL — C$32,400 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetEDMONTON TALMUD TORAH SOCIETY — C$26,642 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJA OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetLES ECOLES JUIVES POPULAIRES — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CALGARY JEWISH ACADEMY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY AT STAMPEDE PARK — C$22,300 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetNA'AMAT CANADA — C$22,200 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCHEVRA KADISHA OF CALGARY — C$21,400 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetJEWISH SENIORS CITIZENS CENTRE — C$21,300 over 5y, 2.0% of budgetKOLLEL KESER TORAH — C$18,600 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetKEHILAT SHALOMN SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$17,600 over 5y, 5.0% of budgetWELLSPRING CALGARY — C$15,800 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTOMCHEI SHABBOS OF MONTREAL — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetCALGARY SENIORS RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$14,400 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBOOTS FOR KIDS — C$14,400 over 4y, 35% of budgetOPPORTUNITY INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$13,600 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetSTOLLERY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$13,600 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETHANY CARE FOUNDATION — C$12,900 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetLIFE TRIALSOF CANADA INC. — C$10,000 over 2y, 100% of budgetSTARS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY READS (AN EARLY LITERARY INITIATIVE) SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKIDS KOTTAGE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKINSMEN CLUB OF CALGARY — C$9,900 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetBEIT HALOCHEM CANADA — C$9,900 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE PATRIOT LOVE FOUNDATION — C$8,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMCA MEXICO'S CANADIAN ANGELS FOUNDATION — C$7,400 over 3y, 10% of budgetCALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION — C$6,600 over 2y, 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 FoundationJewish Community Foun…Carthy FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Hunter Family Foundat…Calgary Flames Founda…Calgary Shaw Charity …Viewpoint FoundationAtco Electric EpicThe Alvin and Mona Li…Harry and Martha Cohe…Place2Give Foundation
The Calgary FoundationAB18.2× affinity32 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · Carthy Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Hunter Family Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · The Alvin and Mona Libin Foundation · Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation · Place2Give 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 72 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 707119681:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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