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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

Sien Lok Society of Calgary

Sponsor chinese programs and events in calgary chinatown sien lok park and through calgary alberta.

C$16k
Granted FY2021
2
Grants FY2021
1
Regions reached
C$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2021 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2021

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$1k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$15k
C$15,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$335k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTAC$15,000
BOW VALLEY COLLEGEC$1,000
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.

59%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$23k · 6 repeat orgsC$16k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 5 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2021 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
2

Total granted

C$23k
C$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+184%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2021, 6% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$15k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21
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

  • MR
    Mount Royal University Foundation
    2× · 2017–2020 · C$11k · revenue +32%
  • CA
    CHINESE ACADEMY FOUNDATION
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$3k · revenue +58%
  • BV
    BOW VALLEY COLLEGE
    3× · 2017–2021 · C$3k · revenue +37%

Funded once

  • MR
    MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$1k · revenue +12%
  • CF
    Calgary Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$100 · revenue +184%

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 Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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2
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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3
The Governors of the University of Calgary

The University of Calgary had 37 400 full time and part time students in the 2023/2024 fiscal year from over 100 countries registered in the following 15 faculties: Art Cummung School of Medicine Environmental Design Graduate Studies…

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4
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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5
Board of Governors of the Banff Centre

The Banff Centre operates under the authority of the Post-Secondary Learning Act (Statutes of Alberta 2003 Chapter P-19.5). The Centre provides the public with the opportunity to access a broad range of learning experiences.

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6
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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7
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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8
Calgary Learns Association

The Alberta Government funds the Provincial Community Adult Learning Program (CALP). It is the role of individual CALPs across the province to ensure the delivery of part-time non-formal literacy and foundational learning opportunities to…

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9
British Columbia Institute of Technology Foundation

The bcit foundation raises funds to further the goals and objectives of british columbia institute of technology ('bcit') for the development and expansion of the education programs services capital projects and other initiatives as…

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10
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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11
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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12
College of the Rockies

Provision of scholarships and bursaries to qualified students for advancement in post secondary education of first & second year university studies career technical general interest bachelor of business and nursing contract training on…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Calgary Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Chinese Academy Foundation. 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

9 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
9/9
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetKIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMount Royal University Foundation — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCHINESE ACADEMY FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBOW VALLEY COLLEGE — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSAIT — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALGARY BRIDGE FOUNDATION FOR YOUTH — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSAIT — C$1,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Foundation — C$100 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 FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Cpa Education Foundat…EducationmattersThe Rotary Club of Ca…Abc Benefits Corporat…BenefAction FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
The Calgary FoundationAB9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 10 of 10Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Cpa Education Foundation · Educationmatters · The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · 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.

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 9 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 2021-08-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2021. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under community resource.

Source object 119149763:2021-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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