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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Swiftsure Foundation

Through the volunteer efforts of directors SWIFTSURE FOUNDATION seeks to explore qualified donees in local calgary area alberta and outside canada (through international charity organizations) where there is the greatest need for human support animal welfare scientific research and education.

C$112k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$72k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$40k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$72k
C$30,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTS COMMONSC$72,000
TRADES GUILD CHARITYC$30,000
SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATIONC$10,000
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$432k · 6 repeat orgsC$74k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
9

Total granted

C$432k
C$74k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+74%

Still filing today

83%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • AC
    ARTS COMMONS
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$147k · revenue +25%
  • TG
    TRADES GUILD CHARITY
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$74k · revenue ×25 · 57% of their budget
  • SH
    SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$42k · revenue +208%

Funded once

  • FA
    FIRST ALLIANCE CHURCH
    one grant, 2017 · C$30k · revenue -34%
  • TM
    THE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k · revenue +77%
  • UO
    University of British Columbiagraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +55%

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
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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3
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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4
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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5
Bild Calgary Region Foundation

BILD Calgary Region Foundation was incorporated in 1986 with a mandate; to aid the community in which members of BILD Calgary Region work and live by supporting shelter related charitable initiatives education opportunities and shelter…

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6
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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7
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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8
Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation

Charitable status was received on April 1 2018 and CAHF has been in a set up phase since that time. In this current fiscal year there has been activity related to preparing to deliver charitable activities which can be described as…

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9
The Red Deer Public Schools Scholarship Trust
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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
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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12
Calgary Dream Centre

The calgary dream centre's programs provide recovery-oriented training vocational training and housing opportunities to those experiencing addiction and homelessness. at the calgary dream centre people are given the resources and…

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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 University of 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

13 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. 13 of the 15 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
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 budgetARTS COMMONS — C$147,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetTRADES GUILD CHARITY — C$74,445 over 3y, 57% of budgetSAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION — C$41,676 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetCHRIST THE REDEEMER CATHOLIC SCHOOLS — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST ALLIANCE CHURCH — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEWING SEEDS CANADA — C$10,676 over 3y, 7.4% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALGARY FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHBANKS SOCIETY — C$1,808 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMADE BY MOMMA — C$1,676 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHEEP RIVER HEALTH TRUST — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…BenefAction FoundationCalgary Shaw Charity …Carthy FoundationUnited Way of the Alb…Atco Electric EpicThe Edmonton Communit…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…
The Calgary FoundationAB12× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · BenefAction Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Carthy Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Atco Electric Epic · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto

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 15 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 820670495:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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