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Canadian charities

Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Anonymous Foundation

Donations to qualified donees primarily in the area of social services.

C$88k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$3k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$35k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$10,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MomentumC$50,000
MERS Marine Education and Research SocietyC$15,000
Closer to Home Community ServicesC$10,000
Kids International Development SocietyC$10,000
Toronto District School BoardC$3,000
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$847k · 8 repeat orgsC$96k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +27% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
3

Total granted

C$847k
C$96k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+27%

Still filing today

100%
100%

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

  • M
    MOMENTUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$400k · revenue +20%
  • IF
    Inn From The Cold Society
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$190k · revenue +40%
  • KI
    KIDS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$80k · revenue +64%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Calgarygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$83k · revenue +27%
  • BB
    BROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY STREET KIDSgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +202%
  • GI
    GRENADINES INITIATIVE
    one grant, 2021 · C$3k · revenue -74%

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
Big Brothers & Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region

Big Brothers Big Sisters of Victoria Capital Region offers 4 different mentoring programs developed in response to identified social issues or challenges impacting local children and families. We have established mentoring support in 14…

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2
Big Sisters of B.C. Lower Mainland

Since 1960 Big Sisters of BC Lower Mainland has been committed to enhancing the confidence self-esteem and well-being of girls through supportive friendships with caring women through three core programs: • Big and Little Sister Program:…

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3
Cascade Institute Research Society

Using advanced methods to map and model complex global systems we analyze interactions between systemic risks to anticipate future crises and identify opportunities for high-leverage interventions in social systems. By acting as a network…

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4
Encompass Support Services Society

Community-based children's program that promotes the healthy development of young children (0-6 years) offering child health and development activities parenting skills programs nutritional support community kitchens and outreach.…

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5
Growing Chefs Society

Too many kids don’t know where food comes from or have access to nourishing whole food. We’re on a mission to change that. Growing Chefs trains and supports chef and community volunteers to deliver our Classroom Gardening & Cooking…

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6
Metis Calgary Family Services Society

In home support: early childhood development program; aboriginal student program; calgary afterschool program; little dancing buffalo program; native network program; indian residential school survivor program; home owners assist program;…

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7
The Resilience Institute

The organization develops educational programs & conducts active participatory research on climate change & sustainability. Priority program areas include developing the capacity of Indigenous Communities to adapt to climate impacts &…

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8
United Way Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo

United way fort mcmurray and wood buffalo believes in community impact a movement towards creating meaningful long-term improvements to the quality of life in wood buffalo. our goal is to improve lives through education social innovation…

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9
G R I T (Getting Ready for Inclusion Today) Calgary Society

G.r.i.t. works with children 2.8 to 6 years of age with multicomplex special needs that provides individualized early intervention programming to meet the needs of the child and family. the goal is for every child to have the opportunity…

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10
The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary an Alberta Society

The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary aims to prevent harm and neglect to all children and to build strong families through support services respite programs and a crisis nursery in and around Calgary. The programs offered by the…

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11
Policywise for Children & Families

PolicyWise for Children & Families (PolicyWise) generates knowledge by funding and conducting research and evaluation and by managing linking and analyzing data. We measure the impact of how we influence positive changes for children and…

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12
United Way of Calgary and Area

United way of calgary and area is a 100% local charity that brings together donors corporations agencies and government to solve complex issues and improve lives. we strategically invest in local agencies and collaboratives to create…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Trellis Society for Community Impact and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Calgary. 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

11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
9/11
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 budgetMOMENTUM — C$400,000 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetInn From The Cold Society — C$190,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$83,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY — C$80,000 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetMERS Marine Education & Research Society — C$68,000 over 6y, 10.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CALGARY — C$47,957 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CALGARY — C$35,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCloser to Home Community Services — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY STREET KIDS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetToronto District School Board — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRENADINES INITIATIVE — C$2,500 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.

Charitable Gift Funds…BenefAction FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance CanadaON7.1× affinity6 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 11 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 825554603:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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