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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Ansari-Cook Foundation

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C$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$565k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Human Development FoundationC$7,250
Brown Bagging For Calgary KidsC$5,000
Operation EyesightC$5,000
The Mustard SeedC$5,000
Sled IslandC$4,500
International Development Relief FundC$500
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$91k · 7 repeat orgsC$25k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +51% since the first grant, against -22% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

C$91k
C$20k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
-22%

Still filing today

86%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 82% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • BB
    Brown Bagging for Calgary Kids
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$18k · revenue +61%
  • OE
    Operation Eyesight Universal
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$14k · revenue +51%
  • TM
    The Mustard Seeds
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$13k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • NZ
    National Zakat Foundation - Nisa Homes
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -28%
  • MA
    Medical Aid for Palestine
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue -22%
  • UO
    University of British Columbiagraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue +26%

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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International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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2
Raah Health and Development Foundation Canada

To promote health and relieve poverty in developing nations by providing individuals families and communities who are poor or in need with health care services products and information that prevent and manage serious threats to health and…

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3
Muslim Hands

Delivery of projects outside of Canada is through an affiliated Muslim Hands Organization. Together with local partners and country offices Muslim Hands is working in the world's poorest countries to tackle the root causes of poverty and…

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4
Habib University Foundation Canada

The Foundation runs a scholarship program. In 2024 the successful applicants were students at Habib University in Karachi Pakistan.

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5
Impact Poverty Foundation

Impact poverty foundation solicits funds and provides them as grants to registered canadian charities for poverty reduction and community development projects around the world.

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6
Organization for Relief & Development of Afghanistan
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7
Human Appeal Foundation

Food distribution initiative in Gaza and Palestine.

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8
Amref Health Africa in Canada

Amref health africa in canada ensures access to good health for the most vulnerable and marginalized people in africa. with their active involvement we develop and implement innovative and sustainable solutions to critical health…

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9
International Development Assistance Society of Canada

Raise funds to support health education and awareness to people living in rural areas in other developing countries.

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10
Healthbridge Foundation of Canada

HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…

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11
Penny Appeal Canada

Our domestic programs focus on Canadian Muslims refugees newcomers marginalized and racialized women BIPOC communities the homeless vulnerable students and families in need. By prioritizing community-driven solutions and leveraging…

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12
Pih Partners in Health Canada

Partners In Health Canada works in partnership with sister organizations in settings of poverty around the world to bring health and social justice to vulnerable and marginalized communities. We deliver high quality comprehensive health…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is International Development and Relief Foundation 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

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. 11 of the 12 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
6/11
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetThe Human Development Foundation — C$24,125 over 4y, 25% of budgetBrown Bagging for Calgary Kids — C$17,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOperation Eyesight Universal — C$14,021 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetThe Mustard Seeds — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Drop-In and Rehab Centre — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNational Zakat Foundation - Nisa Homes — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMedical Aid for Palestine — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetUniversity of British Columbia — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSled Island — C$4,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetIslamic Relief Canada — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetInternational Development Relief Fund — C$500 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.

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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 12 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 712539113:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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