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Calgary, AB · Public foundation

Spruce Meadows Leg Up Foundation

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C$477k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$204k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k18 grants · C$83k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$190k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$204k
C$5,522
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$757k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
VETERANS ASSOCIATION FOOD BANKC$204,323
CALGARY FOOD BANKC$45,000
JASPER FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$41,565
JASPER COMMUNITY TEAM SOCIETYC$36,565
KIDSPORT CANADAC$25,000
OPENING GAITS THERAPEUTIC RIDING SOCIETY OF CALGARYC$20,000
SHEEP RIVER HEALTH TRUSTC$12,000
THE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATIONC$10,000
PACIFIC ASSISTANCE DOGS SOCIETYC$8,000
THE OKOTOKS FOOD BANKC$7,000
AIRDRIE FOOD BANKC$7,000
WINGS OF HOPE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATIONC$6,155
CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY FOR PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANIMALSC$5,522
ROWAN HOUSE SOCIETYC$5,000
PRIDDLE COMMUNITY ASSOCIATIONC$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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.5M · 31 repeat orgsC$740k to everyone else

31 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 11 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

31
30

Total granted

C$1.5M
C$592k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+32%

Still filing today

97%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 69% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$148k 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

  • VA
    VETERANS ASSOCIATION FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$244k · revenue +117%
  • YC
    YOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARY
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$207k · revenue +109% · 34% of their budget
  • CF
    CALGARY FOOD BANK
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$146k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • MF
    MAMAS FOR MAMAS
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue -56%
  • PF
    PARACHUTES FOR PETSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue +46%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2018 · C$80k

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 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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
Calgary Communities Against Sexual Abuse Society

1. provide a support and information line available to anyone who is dealing with or has been affected by the various forms of sexual assault or sexual abuse. 2. provide 24 hour hospital call out: through the calgary sexual assault team…

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6
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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7
Calgary Family Therapy Centre

Calgary family therapy centre provides a mental health treatment program for children and their families who are experiencing difficulties. it is a clinical outpatient therapy program that offers specialized services in family therapy. the…

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8
Kids With Cancer Society of Northern Alberta

The Kids with Cancer Society offers programming to assist families in the following areas: Support - Provides the necessary tools to help families cope for the demands of the treatment and minimize family disruption and related stress.…

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9
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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10
Made by Momma

Made by Momma is a grassroots for-impact organization located in Calgary. We help families facing situations of adversity and crisis by providing healthy meals wholesome baked goods baby essentials children’s items supportive in-home…

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11
The Calgary Fetal Alcohol Network: an Alberta Society

The calgary fetal alcohol network offers fetal alcohol spectrum disorder ('fasd') services through it's partner agencies. three training and education workshops are offered by staff and volunteer educators tailored for the audience.…

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12
Calgary Therapeutic Riding Association

Our therapeutic riding programs provide unforgettable experiences and can benefit participants physically cognitively and socially.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is The Okotoks Library Board. 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

67 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. 67 of the 72 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/67
Grantees still filing
46/67
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 budgetVETERANS ASSOCIATION FOOD BANK — C$244,369 over 5y, 6.2% of budgetYOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARY — C$206,640 over 3y, 34% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$146,419 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSPIRIT NORTH — C$136,362 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetMAMAS FOR MAMAS — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPARACHUTES FOR PETS — C$100,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetHOSPICE CALGARY SOCIETY — C$65,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER — C$56,775 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetPCC PROSTATE CANCER CENTRE — C$51,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPRIDDIS COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION — C$50,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetOPENING GAITS THERAPEUTIC RIDING SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$50,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetSTARS — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY SILVER LININGS FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 3y, 23% of budgetCALGARY READS — C$44,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetPACIFIC ASSISTANCE DOGS SOCIETY — C$42,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetJASPER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$41,565 over 1y, 29% of budgetJASPER COMMUNITY TEAM SOCIETY — C$36,565 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — C$33,655 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetTHE OKOTOKS FOOD BANK — C$33,284 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetAIRDRIE FOOD BANK — C$31,284 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY — C$26,775 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBritish Columbia Guide Dog Services — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetCOCHRANE ACTIVITIES FOOD BANK — C$24,284 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetCENTRE FOR SEXUALITY SOCIETY — C$24,258 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetHULL SERVICES — C$23,335 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetIYAHRHE NAKODA FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$23,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetCAN PRAXIS EAL — C$20,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetI CAN FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetDISCOVER HOUSE FAMILY VOILENCE — C$16,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY DROP-IN & REHAB CENTRE SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMS Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 9.1% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH TRUST — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN THERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION — C$12,850 over 2y, 5.9% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION CALGARY — C$12,100 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSHEEP RIVER HEALTH TRUST — C$12,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetTSUUT'INA FOOD BANK — C$10,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAGESSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROWAN HOUSE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetLEGACY PLACE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE BRENDA STRAFFORD FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOKOTOKS LIBRARY BOARD — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetMOTHERS AGAINST DRUNK DRIVING — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLETHBRIDGE YMCA — C$9,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE FOR NEWCOMERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$9,355 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALGARY FIDDLERS ASSOCIATION — C$9,000 over 2y, 1.2% 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 Flames Founda…The Calgary FoundationCalgary Shaw Charity …United Way of Calgary…Atco Electric EpicCenovus Employee Foun…Carthy FoundationChildren's Hospital A…Atco Gas Employees' C…Nickle Family Foundat…The Calgary Roman Cat…Viewpoint Foundation
Calgary Flames FoundationAB29.8× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Flames Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Electric Epic · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Children's Hospital Aid Society · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Nickle Family Foundation · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Viewpoint 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 72 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 821683364:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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