Calgary, AB · Private foundation
Samuel Hanen Society for Resource Conservation
Objects of the samuel hanen society as follows: 1) to promote and support educational and research programs relating to environmental matters as well as educators students and researchers devoted to such matter; 2) to promote and support programs to increase public awareness of environmental issues and problems their solutions and…
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k5 grants · C$130k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$100k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA | C$100,000 |
| ALBERTA RIPARIAN HABITAT MANAGEMENT SOCIETY | C$35,000 |
| SOUTHWEST ALBERTA SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY INITIATIVE | C$33,000 |
| OLDMAN WATERSHED COUNCIL | C$30,000 |
| ALBERTA TOMORROW FOUNDATION | C$20,000 |
| GOLDEN DISTRICT ROD & GUN CLUB | C$12,000 |
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 +13% since the first grant, against -32% for the ones you funded once.
7 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 2 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, 95% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k 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
- TUTROUT UNLIMITED CANADA3× · 2021–2023 · C$234k · revenue +62%
- OWOLDMAN WATERSHED COUNCIL8× · 2017–2024 · C$220k · revenue +3%
- ARALBERTA RIPARIAN HABITAT MANAGEMENT SOCIETY8× · 2017–2024 · C$212k · revenue +13%
Funded once
- BBBOAT BASIN FOUNDATIONone grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue -32%
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.
Scholarly research and dissemination of information regarding water conservation and water policy.
We organize and participate in environmental projects designed to improve and restore watersheds in the Fraser Valley. These projects include stream and streamside restoration invasive species management tree planting stream mapping…
Conservation of landscapes for future generations open & national areas in southern alberta and calgary areas. includes land securement and stewardship. we reach out to land owners to educate about conservation awareness and options. we…
The athabasca watershed council is committed to demonstrate leadership and informed decision making in the athabasca watershed by bringing stakeholders and indigenous peoples together to promote foster respect and plan for an ecologocally…
Public awareness of wilderness conservation issues in alberta through publications lectures hikes public outreach presentations government and industry liaison and landscape and wildlife assessments.
Water stewardship
1. planning and implementation of grassland ecosystem restoration activities 2. develop and implement communication and outreach activities 3. conduct grassland ecosystems restoration monitoring and reporting
Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…
Conservation of water wats in affiliated rural municipalities in the form of small dams abandoned wells forage seed programs riparian partnerships and alternative land use services.
The red deer river watershed alliance is an inclusive collaborative partnership that promotes a healthy watershed to ensure a legacy of ecological integrity and economic sustainability.
The hcf is advancing the preservation and protection of a major provincial park in alberta. hcf is working closely with glenbow ranch park foundation to create new programs of research and study.
Protecting and preserving land and watercourses that have recognized local and regional ecological value. Promoting facilitating and engaging in land stewardship activities through public events and community outreach. Undertaking research…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Southern Alberta Land Trust Society and the most unlike its peers is Boat Basin Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 9 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 TROUT UNLIMITED CANADA ↗
- Who funds OLDMAN WATERSHED COUNCIL ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA RIPARIAN HABITAT MANAGEMENT SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ALBERTA TOMORROW FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds SOUTHWEST ALBERTA SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY INITIATIVE ↗
- Who funds THE NATURE TRUST OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗
- Who funds SOUTHERN ALBERTA LAND TRUST SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds BOAT BASIN FOUNDATION ↗
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 Alberta Ecotrust Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Alberta Conservation Association · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (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.