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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Silver Gummy

Receiving and managing funds for the purpose of reducing sexual and domestic violence through intersectional feminist education.

C$903k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$211k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$199k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$704k
C$50,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$10M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAST AND FEMALEC$210,740
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$130,000
WITSC$70,000
INFORMED OPINIONSC$69,140
PUNJABI COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONC$62,380
COMMUNITY LINKSC$62,000
TRIBE ARTIST SOCIETYC$50,000
CUPSC$50,000
SAGESSEC$40,000
TWO WHEEL VIEWC$38,000
USAYC$25,650
VICTORIA WOMEN'S TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETYC$25,000
CREATING HOPE SOCIETYC$25,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERSC$15,000
MISKANAWAHC$15,000
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.0M · 18 repeat orgsC$456k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +22% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
7

Total granted

C$3.0M
C$259k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+11%

Still filing today

94%
43%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$197k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$505k · revenue +6%
  • FA
    FAST AND FEMALE
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$441k · revenue +76% · 37% of their budget
  • CS
    CASUAL SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$413k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • FA
    FAST AND FEMALE
    one grant, 2022 · C$130k
  • P
    PREVNET
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue -66% · 70% of their budget
  • YC
    YWCA CALGARYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$23k · revenue +35%

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 Youth Justice Society

Calgary Youth Justice Committees (CYJC): A restorative justice alternative for youth facing minor offenses. Volunteer-led committees work with young offenders and their families to design meaningful community-based consequences emphasizing…

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2
Youthlink Calgary - the Calgary Police Interpretive Centre

Youthlink calgary delivers relevant and captivating content provoking youth to confront the issues of their time make positive life choices and become responsible citizens in their communities. in order to prevent crime youthlink calgary…

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3
Calgary Outlink: Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity

Outlink provides a variety of peer support services for 2SLGBTQ+ community members including groups facilitated by volunteers 1-1 peer support resource referral and system navigation support provided by staff and 1-1 mentorship pairings…

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4
Healthy Youth Network

What's your path - helping young people refine their skills passions & interests in order to develop a path for the future based on their priorities and goals. ally program - this youth-led ally program that creates systemic change is…

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5
Casa Mental Health

CASA Mental Health delivers holistic culturally safe wrap-around mental health services to Albertans aged 3 - 18 and their families. Major programs include Residential and Day Programs that consist of CASA House Preschool Day Programs…

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6
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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7
Y.E.S.S.: Youth Emergency Shelter Society of Edmonton

Based in Edmonton Youth Empowerment & Support Services (YESS) provides 24/7 singe-point-of-access to immediate and low-barrier physical mental cultural and emotional health supports and safe places to stay for youth aged 15-21 who are…

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8
Calgary Police Foundation

The calgary police foundation (cpf)operates under the name of the calgary police youth foundation. it's purpose is to educate youth about good citizenship safe communities policing and avoiding victimization and criminality. cpf does this…

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9
Alberta University of the Arts

Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.

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10
Calgary Counselling Centre

1) Individual couples family and group counselling services to children youth and adults in distress. 2) Provide preventative counselling services for a wide range of personal needs. 3) We educate university students in counselling to…

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11
Girlsincorporated of Northern Alberta Society

The organization sparks girls' interest and passion in building healthy minds and bodies (sports mental health and substance abuse) learning gender-based violence prevention (including self-defense) acting on anti-bullying achieving…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centre for Sexuality Society and the most unlike its peers is University of Victoria. 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

24 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. 24 of the 29 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
18/24
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$505,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFAST AND FEMALE — C$440,740 over 3y, 37% of budgetCASUAL SEXUAL HEALTH CENTRE — C$412,500 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetCOMMUNITY LINKS — C$267,832 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF TORONTO — C$240,349 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$228,275 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCUPS — C$110,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCARYA SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$99,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTWO WHEEL VIEW — C$98,000 over 3y, 3.3% of budgetWITS — C$90,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetVICTORIA WOMENÈS TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETY — C$85,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetSAGESSE — C$80,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetINFORMED OPINIONS — C$69,140 over 1y, 11% of budgetPREVNET — C$50,000 over 1y, 70% of budgetTRIBE ARTIST SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetARTEMIS PLACE SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetUSAY — C$40,650 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCREATING HOPE SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetMISKANAWAH — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYWCA CALGARY — C$23,126 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANVAS — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$5,000 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 FoundationThe Burns Memorial Fu…Kids Up Front Foundat…TELUS Friendly Future…Canadian Women's Foun…Calgary Flames Founda…Atco Electric EpicCarthy FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Calgary Inter-Faith F…Calgary Shaw Charity …Calgary Co-Op Communi…
The Calgary FoundationAB13× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · Calgary Flames Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Carthy Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Calgary Co-Op Community 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 29 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 786845693:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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