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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Alvin and Mona Libin Foundation

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C$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$2.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$25k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$98k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$600k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$2.6M
C$20,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$79M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$2,050,000
UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREAC$325,000
CALGARY JEWISH FEDERATIONC$250,000
CALGARY HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$150,000
THE IMPACT SOCIETY FOR CHILDREND AND FAMILIES IN TURMOILC$150,000
ICAN FOR KIDS FOUNDATIONC$150,000
THE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLINDC$100,000
HAZELDEN BETTY FORD SOCIETY OF CANADAC$50,000
CANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM FOR ISRAELC$48,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN ALBERTAC$20,000
DYSTONIA MEDICAL RESEARCH FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED RESEARCHC$10,000
ISRAEL MAGEN FUND OF CANADAC$10,000
CALGARY BETH TZEDEC CONGREGATION SOCIETYC$8,250
MS SOCIETY OF CANADAC$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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$15M · 42 repeat orgsC$562k to everyone else

42 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
28

Total granted

C$15M
C$542k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+38%

Still filing today

98%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$7.6M · revenue +27%
  • CJ
    Calgary Jewish Federation
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$1.0M · revenue +39%
  • CN
    Canadian National Institute for the Blind
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$600k · revenue +9%

Funded once

  • PN
    PURE NORTH S'ENERGY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$100k · revenue -97%
  • TS
    Trellis Society for Community Impact
    one grant, 2023 · C$100k · revenue +9%
  • R
    RESOLVE
    one grant, 2017 · C$51k · revenue +12%

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.

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Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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The Boma Calgary Foundation
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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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4
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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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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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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10
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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11
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment…

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12
Community Foundation of Central Alberta

The foundation is a community catalyst committed to growing a legacy which strengthens the quality of life in red deer and central alberta. activities in support of their mission include: working with donors to enable them to meet their…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Educational Partnership Foundation. 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

71 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. 71 of the 73 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/71
Grantees still filing
49/71
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$7,584,450 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$1,391,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetCalgary Jewish Federation — C$1,000,000 over 3y, 18% of budgetCanadian National Institute for the Blind — C$600,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Health Foundation — C$512,500 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetTHE IMPACT SOCIETY FOR CHILDREND AND FAMILIES IN TURMOIL — C$510,000 over 4y, 20% of budgetCALGARY UNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$470,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCALGARY UNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$430,000 over 2y, 61% of budgetiCan for Kids Foundation — C$400,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetCalgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society — C$295,800 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCUPS — C$205,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSAIT — C$120,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetJunior Achievement of Alberta — C$115,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetThe Banff Centre — C$110,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM FOR ISRAEL — C$108,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetPURE NORTH S'ENERGY FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetTrellis Society for Community Impact — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Canadian Institute for the Weizmann Institute of Science — C$100,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHAZELDEN BETTY FORD SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$100,000 over 2y, 20% of budgetDystonia Medical Research Foundation — C$80,000 over 8y, 3.0% of budgetBrown Bagging for Calgary Kids — C$80,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCalgary Meals on Wheels — C$80,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCanadian Institute for Advanced Research — C$70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY BETH TZEDEC CONGREGATION — C$64,913 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetHeritage Park — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJewish National Fund of Canada — C$60,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Seniors Resource Centre — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetRESOLVE — C$51,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Hadassah-WIZO — C$46,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetChabad Lubavitch Alberta — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetJewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta — C$35,000 over 7y, 8.0% of budgetAlberta Adolescent Recovery Centre — C$33,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetFriends of the Canadian Museum for Human Rights Inc. — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA — C$26,800 over 1y, 16% of budgetHull Services — C$26,154 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Drop In and Rehab Centre Society — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Flames Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetKids Up Front Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFRESH START RECOVERY CENTRE — C$22,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY ZOO — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTemple B'nai Tikvah — C$18,966 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetAlberta Cancer Foundation — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMustard Seed — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Foundation — C$12,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doorway — C$10,800 over 1y, 12% of budgetCANADA ISRAEL CHILDREN CENTRES — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% 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 FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…Calgary Shaw Charity …Viewpoint FoundationJewish Community Foun…Carthy FoundationHarry and Martha Cohe…The Jeffrey and Maril…Hunter Family Foundat…The Philip and Harrie…United Way of Calgary…Cenovus Employee Foun…
The Calgary FoundationAB23.5× affinity42 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · Carthy Foundation · Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation · The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · The Philip and Harriet Libin Family Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Cenovus Employee 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 73 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 130009467:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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