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Cochrane, AB · Private foundation

Shell and Kay Maude Charitable Foundation

To accumulate funds through endowment gifts to be able to provide a future legacy in support of gifts to qualified donees relieving poverty advancing education and to educate and increase the publics understanding and appreciation of the arts.

C$33k
Granted FY2023
8
Grants FY2023
3
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$920k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILIES FOR ADDICTION RECOVERYC$10,000
SOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (SAIT)C$9,789
COCHRANE WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETYC$5,000
COCHRANE ACTIVETTES FOOD BANKC$5,000
THE ROLL A HIPPO FOUNDATIONC$1,000
THE TOWN OF COCHRANE LIBRARY BOARDC$1,000
OPERATION SMILE CANADAC$500
NANAIMO - LADYSMITH SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONC$500
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$217k · 9 repeat orgsC$33k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
13

Total granted

C$217k
C$32k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
85%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • FF
    FAMILIES FOR ADDICTION RECOVERY
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$63k · revenue ×14
  • SI
    SOUTHERN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$58k · revenue +31%
  • CA
    COCHRANE ACTIVETTES FOOD BANK
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$36k · revenue +81%

Funded once

  • CF
    COCHRANE FAMILY & COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICES
    one grant, 2020 · C$13k
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue -47%
  • TE
    THE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF CALGARY
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +12%

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
Calgary Homeless Foundation

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…

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2
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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3
Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association

The charity supports children who are living with disabilities and specialized needs in our communities. Through education advocacy direct support and community outreach we support children who are facing physical developmental emotional…

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4
Beam Foundation

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…

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5
Kids With Cancer Society of Northern Alberta

The Kids with Cancer Society offers programming to assist families in the following areas: Support - Provides the necessary tools to help families cope for the demands of the treatment and minimize family disruption and related stress.…

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6
Cups Calgary Society

CUPS supports Calgarians impacted by poverty trauma and systemic marginalization with a unique integrated approach to care. We empower people to work holistically to create and achieve goals that support their well-being and build…

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7
Shelterbox Canada

ShelterBox Canada provides shelter essential items and technical assistance to help some of the world’s most vulnerable people recover and rebuild their homes after disaster. ShelterBox teams listen and adapt our support to the needs of…

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8
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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9
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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10
United Way of Calgary and Area

United way of calgary and area is a 100% local charity that brings together donors corporations agencies and government to solve complex issues and improve lives. we strategically invest in local agencies and collaboratives to create…

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11
Rotary Club of Calgary Sarcee

Support children programs

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Elizabeth Fry Society of Calgary Alberta and the most unlike its peers is Board of Governors of the Southern Alberta Institute of Technology. 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

21 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. 21 of the 23 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFAMILIES FOR ADDICTION RECOVERY — C$63,000 over 5y, 20% of budgetSOUTHERN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$58,322 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCOCHRANE ACTIVETTES FOOD BANK — C$35,500 over 6y, 1.6% of budgetBIG HILL HAVEN SOCIETY — C$26,000 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetLIFEWATER CANADA — C$21,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetOPENING GAITS THERAPEUTIC RIDING SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$6,000 over 4y, 2.5% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ELIZABETH FRY SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNANAIMO-LADYSMITH SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetOPERATION SMILE CANADA — C$2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROLL A HIPPO FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCALGARY DROP-IN & REHAB CENTRE SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTART2FINISH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHENS BACKPACKS SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHELPING HANDS SOCIETY COCHRANE AND AREA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOWN OF COCHRANE LIBRARY BOARD — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNICEF CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPIVOT LEGAL SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$500 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 FoundationTotem Charitable Foun…Calgary Shaw Charity …United Way of Calgary…The Western Communiti…Shoppers Foundation f…Atco Electric EpicVancouver FoundationAqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …Charitable Gift Funds…
The Calgary FoundationAB9.7× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Totem Charitable Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Western Communities Foundation · Shoppers Foundation for Women's Health Fondation Pharmaprixpour la Santé des Femmes · Atco Electric Epic · Vancouver Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada

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 23 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 2023-07-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 770666725:2023-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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