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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

Society of Emissaries of Divine Light of Alberta

To provide educational programs in spiritual and temporal fields.

C$17k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
3
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$5,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$5k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Red CrossC$5,000
Emissaries of Divine LightC$5,000
Unicef CanadaC$5,000
Banbury Crossroads SchoolC$2,000
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.

69%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$211k · 11 repeat orgsC$97k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2022, 9 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
10

Total granted

C$211k
C$90k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+72%

Still filing today

91%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 59% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
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

  • IF
    INN FROM THE COLD
    3× · 2017–2021 · C$25k · revenue +40%
  • CF
    CALGARY FOOD BANK
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$25k · revenue +18%
  • CM
    CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$20k · revenue +12%

Funded once

  • 1M
    100 Mile and District Historical Society
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k · revenue -100%
  • SH
    Simon Housegraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue +72%
  • SN
    Spirit Northgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue +110%

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 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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2
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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3
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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4
Community Kitchen Program of Calgary Society

Calgary cooking - teaching low income families to buy and prepare meals at a low price. good food box program - teaching low income families to buy fresh fruit and vegetables at an affordable cost. sprinz around program - provide food to…

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5
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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6
Calgary Keys to Recovery Society

Calgary Keys to Recovery Society provides housing and case management services to at risk individuals upon their exit from addictions treatment.

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7
Inside Education Society of Alberta

Inside Education programs aim to create generations of engaged citizens who understand the important relationships betweenenvironment economy and society and who think critically and creatively about environmental topics and actively…

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8
Change Health Alberta

Runs a camp which aims to reconnect famililes and children with healthy active lifestyles through a series of educational programming in alberta

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9
Calgary Humane Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The mission of the Society is to Protect Animals. Support People. Create A More Humane World. The Society offers services to the Calgary and surrounding areas in the sheltering and care of animals adoptions protection and investigation and…

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10
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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11
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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12
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Safe Haven Foundation of Canada and the most unlike its peers is Emissaries of Divine Light British Columbia. 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

22 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. 22 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)
22/22
Grantees still filing
19/22
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 budgetEMISSARIES OF DIVINE LIGHT OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$40,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD — C$25,200 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS CALGARY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ASSOCIATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSimon House — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSpirit North — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetJUMP! CANADA SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.8% of budgetHULL SERVICES — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrown Bagging for Calgary Street Kids — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetWELLSPRING CALGARY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetANN & SANDY CROSS CONSERVATION AREA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTWO WHEEL VIEW — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSafe Haven — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUnicef Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBanbury Crossroads School — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$1,000 over 3y, 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 FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…United Way of Calgary…Calgary Shaw Charity …Children's Hospital A…Carthy FoundationBenefAction FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Canada GivesAqueduct FoundationCampbell-Stone United…TELUS Friendly Future…
The Calgary FoundationAB11.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Children's Hospital Aid Society · Carthy Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Canada Gives · Aqueduct Foundation · Campbell-Stone United Church (Christian Church/Disciples of Christ and the United Church of Canada) · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur

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 2022-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 869118661:2022-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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