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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Shaw Family Foundation

The Foundation donates to qualified donees to support community education and health initiatives environmental protection plus disaster and poverty relief.

C$11M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
6
Regions reached
C$7.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$4k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$166k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$1.3M
  • C$250k+6 grants · C$9.9M
C$100,000
Median grant
6
Regions reached
C$266M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLENBOW ALBERTA INSTITUTEC$7,000,000
ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATIONC$1,000,000
HULL SERVICESC$911,800
CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATIONC$500,000
ECOTRUST CANADAC$250,000
CALGARY POLICE YOUTH FOUNDATIONC$250,000
TOWNSHIP OF ST. CLAIRC$245,250
REGIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUTION ASSOCIATIONC$200,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY SOUTHERN ALBERTA SOCIETYC$200,000
CANADIAN RED CROSSC$200,000
COMMUNITY OF CHRISTC$185,000
KIDSPORT SOCIETY OF CALGARYC$100,000
FRASER INSTITUTEC$81,701
ALBERTA BALLET COMPANYC$50,000
CLEAN SCENE NETWORK FOR YOUTH SOCIETYC$40,000
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$36M · 31 repeat orgsC$1.6M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

31 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
20

Total granted

C$36M
C$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+33%

Still filing today

87%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$83k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • GA
    GLENBOW ALBERTA INSTITUTE
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$8.5M · revenue +149%
  • HS
    Hull Services
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$6.5M · revenue +36%
  • CO
    Community of Christ
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$4.6M · revenue ×12 · 94% of their budget

Funded once

  • MM
    Moore Museum
    one grant, 2019 · C$350k · revenue +22%
  • CH
    Covenant House Vancouvergraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$200k · revenue +31%
  • OW
    Ocean Wise Conservation Association
    one grant, 2023 · C$200k · revenue -5%

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 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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2
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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3
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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4
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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5
Inside Education Society of Alberta

Inside Education programs aim to create generations of engaged citizens who understand the important relationships betweenenvironment economy and society and who think critically and creatively about environmental topics and actively…

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6
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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7
The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation

Alberta ecotrust foundation implements programs and projects to protect the environment which includes protecting the quality of air and water wildlife habitat parks and suburban land use. in addition to its own projects and in pursuit of…

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8
Alberta Council for Environmental Education

Work collaboratively to advance environmental education in Alberta. Move environmental education from the margins to mainstream by harnessing youth voice to guide decision makers increasing students environmental and climate literacy and…

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9
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

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…

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10
Careers the Next Generation Foundation

CAREERS WORKS WITH ALBERTA SCHOOLS TO CONNECT STUDENTS TO EMPLOYERS FOR PAID INTERNSHIPS. High school students learn and earn as they test drive different careers through paid internships helping them find out what kind of work appeals to…

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11
Raincoast Conservation Foundation

Great bear rainforest and salish sea 1. wild salmon project - determining the role and importance of salmon in the ecosystem 2. coastal wolf project research - ecological genetic and behavioural study of the coastal wolves 3. grizzly bear…

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12
All One Sky Foundation

All One Sky Foundation takes innovative action on climate change through education and research programs. It focusses on vulnerable populations at the crossroads of climate environment and energy. Key areas of focus are resilience to…

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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 Intergen Impact 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

49 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. 49 of the 55 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
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 budgetGLENBOW ALBERTA INSTITUTE — C$8,500,000 over 2y, 13% of budgetHull Services — C$6,498,062 over 8y, 3.4% of budgetCommunity of Christ — C$4,638,295 over 8y, 94% of budgetCalgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation — C$3,100,000 over 6y, 6.0% of budgetAlberta Cancer Foundation — C$3,000,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetThe Mustard Seed Foundation — C$2,200,000 over 5y, 3.1% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$1,079,063 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY POLICE YOUTH FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 4y, 14% of budgetECOTRUST CANADA — C$600,000 over 4y, 4.6% of budgetUnited Way of Calgary and Area — C$600,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVictoria Cool Aid Society — C$425,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY SOUTHERN ALBERTA SOCIETY — C$410,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCalgary Drug Treatment Court Society — C$350,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetZerin Development Corporation — C$341,560 over 2y, 46% of budgetREGIONAL FOOD DISTRIBUTION ASSOCIATION — C$320,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetAlberta Adolescent Recovery Centre — C$270,000 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetWorld Accord — C$263,700 over 4y, 12% of budgetHeartland Housing Foundation — C$250,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetThe Fraser Institute — C$238,203 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCovenant House Vancouver — C$200,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetOcean Wise Conservation Association — C$200,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southern Alberta — C$200,000 over 5y, 5.7% of budgetAlberta Ballet — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCLEAN SCENE NETWORK FOR YOUTH SOCIETY — C$133,500 over 4y, 16% of budgetJunior Achievement of Northern Alberta and the Northwest Ter — C$100,000 over 2y, 5.5% of budgetJunior Achievement of Canada — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetOur Place Society — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetKelowna Gospel Mission — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetMount Allison University — C$96,566 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPacific Salmon Foundation — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONS CANADA — C$63,420 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetThe Moose Jaw Non-Profit — C$50,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetThe British Columbia Photography — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCanadian Coastal Research Society — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSTART2FINISH CANADA — C$48,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetPROSPECT HUMAN SERVICES SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS CANCER CARE — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Norquest College Foundation — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAlberta Children's Hospital Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetTHE NEW MARINE CENTRE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetThe Walrus — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetChilliwack Restorative Justice and Youth — C$14,000 over 1y, 7.4% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Calgary — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSt. Joseph s Hospice of Sarnia Lambton — C$9,005 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetIntergen Impact Society — C$7,750 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetThe Canadian Sudden Arrhythmia — C$7,750 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$2,650 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 FoundationCalgary Shaw Charity …United Way of Calgary…The McLean FoundationAtco Electric EpicSuncor Energy Foundat…Atco Gas Employees' C…Calgary Inter-Faith F…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Calgary Flames Founda…Raymond James Canada …Private Giving Founda…
The Calgary FoundationAB14.2× affinity20 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · The McLean Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Suncor Energy Foundation/Fondation Suncor Energie · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Private Giving 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 55 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 119147874:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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