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Edmonton, AB · Public foundation

The AIMCo Foundation for Financial Education

Community grants to registered charities and qualified donees supporting financial literacy and education in Alberta; Scholarships to students studying business finance or a related field through six Alberta post-secondary institutions.

C$462k
Granted FY2024still arriving
25
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$45k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 25 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$23k
  • C$10k–50k19 grants · C$439k
C$15,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$686k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Wellspring AlbertaC$45,000
University of AlbertaC$40,000
YWCA EdmontonC$39,000
United Way of the Alberta Capital RegionC$30,000
Council for the Advancement of African Canadians in AlbertaC$30,000
Bissell CentreC$30,000
The Immigrant Education SocietyC$28,000
ASSIST Community Services CentreC$23,500
University of CalgaryC$20,000
Momentum Community Economic Development SocietyC$20,000
Autism Independent Living AssociationC$18,000
The Young Men s Christian Association of EdmontonC$17,000
Junior Achievement of Southern AlbertaC$15,000
Junior Achievement Northern Alberta & NWTC$15,000
Carya Society of CalgaryC$15,000
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 16 repeat orgsC$495k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +19% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
9

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$321k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+8%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$174k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • MC
    Momentum Community Economic Development Society
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$180k · revenue +11%
  • UW
    United Way of the Alberta Capital Region
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$170k · revenue +15%
  • WA
    Wellspring Alberta
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$130k · revenue +109%

Funded once

  • BC
    Bissell Centre
    one grant, 2022 · C$107k · revenue +2%
  • WE
    Wellspring Edmonton
    one grant, 2021 · C$62k · revenue -99%
  • CS
    Catholic Social Servicesgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$35k · revenue +36%

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 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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2
Community Learning Network - an Alberta Association of Leaders in Lifelong Learning

The Community Learning Network (CLN) cultivates and promotes the advancement of community-based learning in Alberta by providing training support and resources to our networks. Based on identified trends needs and issues in community adult…

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3
Alberta University of the Arts

Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.

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4
Centre for Autism Services Alberta

Intensive intervention and ECS programs for children youth teens and young adults with autism Family support services Therapeutic and recreational groups for children youth teens and young adults with autism Employment readiness and…

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5
The Integrated Post Secondary Education Society of Alberta

Support for adults with developmental disabilities in authentic university experience. support for adults with developmental disabilities finding and maintaining meaningful paid employment. support adults with developmental disabilities…

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6
Stem Innovation Academy Society

Stem innovation academy society delivers education programs under the authority of the alberta education act 2012 chapter e.0.3.

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7
The Further Education Society of Alberta

Fesa's core program areas: 1) free education program delivery in calgary 2) training and skill building for community workers 3) partnership building and community development 4) research and curriculum development

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8
Alberta Council for Environmental Education

Work collaboratively to advance environmental education in Alberta. Move environmental education from the margins to mainstream by harnessing youth voice to guide decision makers increasing students environmental and climate literacy and…

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9
Friends of the University of Alberta

Fund Student Scholarships and Awards Sponsor public lectures featuring University Speakers Financially support university programs to engage the broader community

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10
Centre for Family Literacy Society of Alberta

As a literacy leader in Canada we provide a continuum of services that enable individuals and families to participate at any stage of literacy development. We develop and deliver family literacy and adult literacy programs in the Alberta…

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11
Association for the Alberta Network of Immigrant Women

Employment health & wellness leadership

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12
Olds College

Olds college works with industry and clients to develop and deliver a range of training programs and products designed to meet desired specifications in areas of agriculture horticulture land and environmental management agribusiness…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Council for the Advancement of African Canadians in Alberta and the most unlike its peers is Rainbow Literacy and Learning Society. 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

33 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. 33 of the 35 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)
33/33
Grantees still filing
20/33
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 budgetMomentum Community Economic Development Society — C$180,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUnited Way of the Alberta Capital Region — C$170,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetWellspring Alberta — C$130,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetBissell Centre — C$107,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Immigrant Education Society — C$98,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBissell Centre — C$96,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement — C$86,690 over 4y, 3.4% of budgetABC Head Start Society — C$81,328 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBow Valley College — C$79,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWellspring Edmonton — C$62,000 over 1y, 9.2% of budgetTeam Windmill — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA Edmonton — C$57,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetJunior Achievement Southern AB — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSouthern Alberta Institute of Technology (SAIT) — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Alberta — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Social Services — C$35,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCouncil for the Advancement of African Canadians in Alberta — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCandora Society of Edmonton — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAction for Healthy Communities Society of Edmonton — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetASSIST Community Services Centre — C$23,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Board of Governors of Grant MacEwan University Departme — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAutism Independent Living Association — C$18,000 over 1y, 88% of budgetThe Young Men s Christian Association of Edmonton — C$17,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarya Society of Calgary — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetRainbow Literacy & Learning Society — C$13,500 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetPALS - Project Adult Literacy Society — C$12,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetNext Step Ministries — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetNorthern Alberta Institute of Technology — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMacEwan University — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetUniversity of Lethbridge — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHinton Employment and Learning Place under Hinton Adult Lea — C$3,300 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAlzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories — C$1,800 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 Edmonton Communit…The Stollery Charitab…Atco Electric EpicEdmonton Oilers Commu…United Way of the Alb…TELUS Friendly Future…Abc Benefits Corporat…Carthy FoundationThe Calgary FoundationButler Family Foundat…Allard Foundation Ltd.United Way of Calgary…
The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv ActAB18.8× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · The Stollery Charitable Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · Carthy Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Butler Family Foundation · Allard Foundation Ltd. · United Way of Calgary and Area

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 35 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 advancing education.

Source object 773743281:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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