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Edmonton, AB · Private foundation

Telus Employees Charitable Trust

C$2.2M
Granted FY2017
1,265
Grants FY2017
10
Regions reached
C$104k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2017 · 1265 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2017

  • Under C$10k1226 grants · C$1.4M
  • C$10k–50k36 grants · C$589k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$216k
C$500
Median grant
10
Regions reached
C$2.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN RED CROSS / CROIX-ROUGE CANADIENNEC$103,852
AGA KHAN FOUNDATION CANADA/FONDATION AGA KHAN CANADAC$56,950
MULGRAVE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL SOCIETYC$55,000
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$42,382
CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCERC$32,247
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA/MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES CANAC$31,006
BRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO ANC$24,170
BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$23,777
HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA FONDATION DES MALADIESC$21,610
MACKENZIE HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$21,350
THE STERLING HALL SCHOOLC$20,000
THE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATIONC$18,299
THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$17,884
BROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY STREET KIDS SOCIETYC$17,250
HOPE MISSIONC$16,624
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

British Columbia
C$887k
Ontario
C$660k
Alberta
C$571k
Quebec
C$97k
Saskatchewan
C$10k
Manitoba
C$6k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$6k
New Brunswick
C$5k
Nova Scotia
C$3k
Northwest Territories
C$400

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 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.

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Pacific Public Health Foundation

The pacific public health foundation works in collaboration with the bc centre for disease control (bccdc) and more broadly the health sector to support public health in bc by funding and facilitating evidence-based work that has an…

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2
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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3
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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4
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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5
Bc Emergency Health Services Foundation

Bc emergency health services foundation (the 'foundation') is a charitable organization that raises and stewards funds for research education promotion of public health and other activities supporting british columbia emergency health…

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6
Chilliwack Hospital Foundation

The foundation raises funds to support programs and services that educate and facilitate better health for the residents in the region primarily through community based projects. programs focus on identifying the factors that have a…

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7
Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society

This is Vancouver Aquarium Marine Mammal Rescue Society's (VAMMR) first year of operations as a registered charity and is a global leader in marine mammal rescue research and rehabilitation. VAMMR responds to over 300 marine mammal…

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8
Michael Smith Foundation for Health Research

Annual peer-reviewed funding award/grant competitions projects and activities that foster talen development in bc; support provincial health system priorities health system transformation and innovation; build capacity for research uptake;…

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9
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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10
British Columbia Cancer Agency Branch

Providing cancer control programs for British Columbia including prevention, screening and early detection, treatments (i.e. curative, supportive care and palliative care), follow up and survivorship, innovation/research and education…

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11
B.C. Mental Health Foundation

The british columbia mental health foundation is dedicated to raising awareness and support for mental health and substance use care education and research throughout the province. the bc mental health foundation provide funds to support…

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12
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Community Connections Society of Southeast Bc and the most unlike its peers is Human Venture Leadership. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

1166 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. 1166 of the 1,196 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)
393
Early backer (in before they grew)
1108/1166
Grantees still filing
886/1166
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS / CROIX-ROUGE CANADIENNE — C$103,852 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY COMMUNITY SERVICES (CALGARY) — C$58,178 over 1y, 52% of budgetAGA KHAN FOUNDATION CANADA/FONDATION AGA KHAN CANADA — C$56,950 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMULGRAVE INDEPENDENT SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$55,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$42,382 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY - SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DU CANCER — C$32,247 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA/MÉDECINS SANS FRONTIÈRES CANA — C$31,006 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF CRUELTY TO AN — C$29,040 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$23,777 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA FONDATION DES MALADIES — C$21,610 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMACKENZIE HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$21,350 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE STERLING HALL SCHOOL — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$18,299 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$17,884 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY STREET KIDS SOCIETY — C$17,270 over 1y, 15% of budgetHOPE MISSION — C$16,624 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIONS GATE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$16,070 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$15,752 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION, — C$15,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLIVE DIFFERENT — C$15,100 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA INC — C$14,908 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAS-SADIQ ISLAMIC SCHOOLS — C$14,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$14,380 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetKIDS UP FRONT FOUNDATION (EDMONTON) — C$13,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetREGIONAL ANIMAL PROTECTION SOCIETY — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$12,199 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMERCER UNION, A CENTRE FOR CONTEMPORARY VISUAL ART — C$12,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCKUA RADIO FOUNDATION — C$11,910 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTARS FOUNDATION — C$11,882 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVGH & UBC HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$11,442 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITY SCIENCE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$11,274 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetITS THEATRE TERRIFIC SOCIETY — C$11,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE JOE DWEK OHR HAEMET SEPHARDIC SCHOOL — C$11,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSURREY HOSPITAL & OUTPATIENT CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$10,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetUBC ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EDUCATIONAL ENDOWMENT TRUST — C$10,400 over 1y, 53% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$10,059 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNAVY LEAGUE OF CANADA, SMITHERS BRANCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 90% of budgetNORTH OKANAGAN NEUROLOGICAL ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE COLOMBO CANADIAN ALLIANCE FOR DEVELOPMENT LTD — C$10,000 over 1y, 73% of budgetSTOLLERY CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$9,920 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$9,208 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYESS (YOUTH EMPOWERMENT & SUPPORT SERVICES) — C$9,195 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFONDATION DE L'UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI INC — C$8,750 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSICKKIDS FOUNDATION — C$8,660 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS HUMANITATIAN ASSISTANCE CANADA — C$8,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFONDATION DU CENTRE RÉGIONAL DE SANTÉ ET DE SERVICES SOCIAUX — C$8,180 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MOUNT SAINT JOSEPH HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$8,150 over 1y, 6.9% of budgetDELTA HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$7,960 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.

Atco Gas Employees' C…Butler Family Foundat…Wcb Helping HandsCenovus Employee Foun…Allard Foundation Ltd.Abc Benefits Corporat…The Edmonton Civic Em…South-West Senior's O…Edmonton Oilers Commu…Melton FoundationATB Investor Services…The Dianne and Irving…
Atco Gas Employees' Community Service FundAB25.5× affinity116 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Butler Family Foundation · Wcb Helping Hands · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Allard Foundation Ltd. · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · The Edmonton Civic Employees Charitable Assistance Fund · South-West Senior's Outreach Society · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Melton Foundation · ATB Investor Services Foundation · The Dianne and Irving Kipnes 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 1196 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 2017-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2017. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2021) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2017, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 888165065:2017-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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