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Calgary, AB · Public foundation

Social Venture Partners Calgary Ltd.

Svp calgary continued its ongoing programs; our investee granting and capacity building program.

C$5k
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$4k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATIONC$5,000
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.

65%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$248k · 7 repeat orgsC$133k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +19% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
36

Total granted

C$248k
C$128k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+19%

Still filing today

100%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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

  • TS
    TRELLIS SOCIETY
    4× · 2019–2022 · C$66k · revenue +101%
  • CY
    CORNERSTONE YOUTH CENTRE
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$61k · revenue +27%
  • DT
    DARE TO CARE BULLY PREVENTION & LIFE SKILLS INC.
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$45k · revenue +139%

Funded once

  • BO
    Beads of Courage Canada
    one grant, 2019 · C$16k
  • RM
    ROCKY MOUNTAIN ADAPTIVEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$13k · revenue +305%
  • HS
    Highbanks Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$13k · revenue +188%

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
Homespace Society

Homespace society is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to creatively apply expertise to increase and manage the number of affordable and specialized housing units in calgary

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3
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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4
Calgary Drop-in & Rehab Centre Society

The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre provides access to a spectrum of care that supports adults at risk of homelessness to the most independent living possible - including various emergency shelter programs and services and affordable and…

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5
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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6
Centre for Autism Services Alberta

Intensive intervention and ECS programs for children youth teens and young adults with autism Family support services Therapeutic and recreational groups for children youth teens and young adults with autism Employment readiness and…

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7
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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8
The Alberta Theatre Projects Society

Alberta Theatre Projects is a Calgary- based not-for-profit professional theatre organization that celebrates the art of live theatre. From our home in the Martha Cohen Theatre we create world class contemporary theatre with a focus on…

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9
Reset Society of Calgary

The Exploitation Intervention & Transition (EXIT) program (housing life skills child-care follow-care-employement prep and support) N/A

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10
The Society of Alberta Dance Theatre for Young People

Alberta dance theatre produces an outstanding and unique program to dancers aged 7-17 in calgary through an intense 12 week program where dancers engage in a creative process alongside professional dance aand theatre artists. this process…

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11
The Calgary Between Friends Club-Fun and Fellowship for Disabled Youth

Between Friends provides quality social recreation and development opportunities so that people with disabilities can connect grow and belong. Between Friends offers a variety of programs to children youth and adults that reduces the…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Calgary John Howard Society and the most unlike its peers is Humanity in Practice 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

38 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. 38 of the 44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/38
Grantees still filing
29/38
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRELLIS SOCIETY — C$66,075 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCORNERSTONE YOUTH CENTRE — C$61,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetDARE TO CARE BULLY PREVENTION & LIFE SKILLS INC. — C$45,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetTWO WHEEL VIEW — C$35,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetGREEN FOOLS — C$22,075 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetCanLearn Society For Persons with Learning Difficulties — C$15,500 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN ADAPTIVE — C$13,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetHighbanks Society — C$13,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetFAMILIES MAGTTERS HORIZON FAMILY CENTRE — C$12,230 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLEFT OVERS FOUNDATIONS — C$12,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetSoccer Without Boundaries — C$6,500 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHUMANITY IN PRACTICE — C$6,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetThe Elizabeth Fry Society of Calgary Alberta — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOW CLIFF SENIORS — C$4,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetSeeds Connections — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetcarya Society of Calgary — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH CENTRAL — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetAFFINITY MENTORSHIP FOUNDATION — C$1,580 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetCALGARY JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY — C$1,150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRENFREW EDUCATION — C$1,125 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA BRIDGES — C$1,055 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Junior League of Calgary — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDISCOVERY HOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetQUEST THEATRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHIV Community Link Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMade By Momma — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAccessible Housing Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHillhurst Sunnyside Community Association — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCESS CALGARY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSimon House Recovery Centre — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSilvera For Seniors — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Liver Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Association of The Inside Out Integrated Theatre Project — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCalgary Keys To Recovery Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBrown Bagging For Calgary Street Kids Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOWTOWN OPERA COMPANY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

Calgary Shaw Charity …The Calgary FoundationCalgary Inter-Faith F…United Way of Calgary…Nickle Family Foundat…Calgary Flames Founda…Kids Up Front Foundat…Calgary Homeless Foun…The Rotary Club of Ca…Hunter Family Foundat…The Burns Memorial Fu…Cenovus Employee Foun…
Calgary Shaw Charity Classic FoundationAB21× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · United Way of Calgary and Area · Nickle Family Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Calgary Homeless Foundation · The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund · Hunter Family Foundation · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · Cenovus Employee 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 44 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 2023-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public 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 862273117:2023-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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