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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

St Mary's University

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C$500
Granted FY2023
1
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$500
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$500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$59M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Umoja Community MosaicC$500
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$31k · 6 repeat orgsC$20k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2023, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
25

Total granted

C$31k
C$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+34%

Still filing today

100%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$500 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

  • RC
    Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Calgary
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$22k · revenue +7%
  • PA
    Pet Access League Society
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$677 · revenue +73%
  • PC
    Providence Child Development Society
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$300 · revenue +23%

Funded once

  • TU
    The Unlocking Potential Foundation of Calgary and Area
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue -33%
  • UO
    University of Calgary
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +4%
  • CC
    Cure Cancer Foundation - Revolutions for Researchgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +79%

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 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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2
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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3
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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4
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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5
Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation

The alberta children's hospital foundation raises funds for excellence in child health research and family centred care. funding is provided to alberta health services and university of calgary for advanced pediatric research specialized…

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6
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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7
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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8
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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9
Calgary Public Library Foundation

The Calgary Public Library Foundation's sole purpose is to raise funds for the Calgary Public Library to enhance programs and services provided to Calgarians.

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10
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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11
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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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 The Alberta Knights of Columbus Charitable Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Helping Families Handle Cancer. 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

29 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. 29 of the 32 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
22/29
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 budgetRoman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Calgary — C$22,080 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetUkrainian Catholic Education Foundation — C$4,720 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Unlocking Potential Foundation of Calgary and Area — C$3,010 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$2,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCure Cancer Foundation - Revolutions for Research — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetFather Lacombe Care Centre Foundation — C$2,150 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetFriends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCatholic Christian Outreach Canada Inc. — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPatrons of the Arts for the Vitican Museums Inc — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ALBERTA KNIGHTS OF COLUMBUS CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCalgary Lodge Menorah Foundation — C$900 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCalgary Motors Dealer Charitable Foundation — C$900 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Heath Trust — C$750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPet Access League Society — C$677 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWounded Warriors Canada — C$575 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUmoja Community Mosaic — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Beth Tzedec Congregation Society — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Stampede Foundation — C$330 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetProvidence Child Development Society — C$300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED SOCIETY — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Legacy Project — C$277 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER — C$222 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Immigrant Women's Association — C$166 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of St Vincent de Paul — C$132 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY — C$115 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARC Adolescent Recovery Centre — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Alberta — C$53 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 Calgary Roman Cat…Calgary Flames Founda…Cenovus Employee Foun…Atco Electric EpicUnited Way of Calgary…Jewish Community Foun…Calgary Shaw Charity …Atco Gas Employees' C…Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationNorrep Foundation
The Calgary FoundationAB14.7× affinity16 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Calgary Flames Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · United Way of Calgary and Area · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Norrep 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 32 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 2023-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under teaching institutions.

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 119188944:2023-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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