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Lethbridge, AB · Private foundation

Shooting Star Foundation

Providing funding to qualified donees

C$27k
Granted FY2023
3
Grants FY2023
2
Regions reached
C$19k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$8k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$19k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$94k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SASKATOON ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST FUND INC.C$19,400
ADAPTABLE OUTDOOR RECREATION SOCIETYC$5,000
MCA MEXICO'S CANADIAN ANGELS FOUNDATIONC$2,500
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$140k · 9 repeat orgsC$30k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2023, 8 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
17

Total granted

C$140k
C$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+31%

Still filing today

89%
65%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 72% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$8k 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

  • SR
    SASKATOON ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST FUND INC.
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$42k · revenue +19%
  • E
    ECOJUSTICE
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$22k · revenue +90%
  • UO
    University of Lethbridge
    4× · 2019–2022 · C$18k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • SU
    STANFORD UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2018 · C$3k
  • UO
    University of Lethbridge
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k
  • RT
    ROOM TO READ
    one grant, 2020 · C$2k

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
Water Ambassadors Canada

Provide safe clean water in areas of the world where it is not available

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2
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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3
Clean Water International Canada Society

We believe every child has the right to clean water clean water international canada is dedicated to advancing wtaer sanitaion and hygiene (wash) through sustainable community-led programs. our work directly contributes to several united…

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4
Canadian Unicef Committee/Comite Unicef Canada

The Canadian UNICEF Committee (UNICEF Canada) supports the core work of UNICEF the leading advocate for children's rights active in almost every country in the world. UNICEF helps children survive and thrive from early childhood through…

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5
Right to Play International

The corporation is a global organization that protects educates and empowers children to rise above adversity using the power of play. we reach millions of children each year in some of the most difficult places on earth helping them to…

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6
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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7
Save the Children Canada/Aide À L'enfance Canada

Save the Children Canada implemented programs focused on empowering girls and boys to fulfill their rights ensuring every last child has an equal opportunity to survive learn and be protected. This work included programs in health…

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8
Canadian Surgical Eye Expeditions

Restore sight to people in developing countries

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9
Brave Global Canada

Brave Global empowers local communities to partner with vulnerable girls to prevent sexual exploitation. They train local leaders offer curriculum and ongoing coaching and strategy to work towards ending trafficking.

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10
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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11
War Child Canada

The charity War Child Canada helps families and communities in Afghanistan the Democratic Republic of Congo South Sudan Sudan Uganda and Yemen through education youth and women’s livelihoods support and other vital services. The charity…

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12
Children's Health Education and Relief International Canada

Cher canada is a child sponsorship program providing assistance to children in developing countries. the objective of the organization is to assist in the relief of poverty advancement of education and to bring basic medical assistance…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Sos Children's Villages Canada/Sos Villages D'enfants Canada and the most unlike its peers is Interfaith Food Bank Society of Lethbridge. 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 28 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
15/21
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 budgetSASKATOON ROTARY CLUB CHARITABLE TRUST FUND INC. — C$41,800 over 5y, 10% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL — C$21,500 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetECOJUSTICE — C$21,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUniversity of Lethbridge — C$17,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSOS VILLAGES — C$17,250 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetROOM TO READ — C$10,750 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetSOUTHWEST ALBERTA SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITY INITIATIVE — C$8,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetADAPTABLE OUTDOOR RECREATION SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLITTLE WARRIORS — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetShelter Box Canada — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRocky Mountain Adaptive — C$1,350 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWater School Canada — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRotary International — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE WOMENS CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAawear (Bridges) — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKids Cancer Care — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRARE DISEASE FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLETHBRIDGE INTERFAITH FOODBANK — C$300 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 FoundationLethbridge Community …Atco Electric EpicThe Edmonton Communit…Telus Employees Chari…United Way of Calgary…Raymond James Canada …United Way of the Alb…Aqueduct FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …
The Calgary FoundationAB10.2× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Lethbridge Community Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · United Way of Calgary and Area · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Aqueduct Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable 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 28 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.

Source object 892377847:2023-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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