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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Barr Family Foundation

Gift funds to qualified donnees to support the charitable purposes for advancing education and promoting literacy and also promoting the health and well-being of women with newborns.

C$52k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$11k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$41k
C$10,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAITIAN EDUCATION SOCIETYC$11,000
PROJECT MALTIOXINEM SOCIETY OF CANADAC$10,000
AMREF HEALTH AFRICA CANADAC$10,000
FINCA CANADAC$10,000
UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREAC$5,000
MADE BY MOMMAC$3,000
FEARLSNOTLOVEC$2,952
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$272k · 7 repeat orgsC$26k to everyone else

7 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

C$272k
C$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

0%
+83%

Still filing today

86%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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

  • AH
    AMREF HEALTH AFRICA IN CANADA
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$74k · revenue 0%
  • FC
    FINCA CANADA
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$68k · revenue -66%
  • CW
    CALAGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ASSOCIATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$43k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • AH
    Amref Health Canada
    one grant, 2017 · C$7k
  • I
    Indspiregraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$6k · revenue +83%
  • WC
    WOMEN'S CENTRE OF CALGARY
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +11%

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
Cuso International

Cuso International is a Canadian not-for-profit international cooperation and development organization that works to create economic and social opportunities for marginalized groups in Africa Latin America the Caribbean and Canada.…

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2
One Girl Can Society

One Girl Can gives some of the world’s most vulnerable high-potential girls a chance to rise above extreme poverty and gender inequality. Through education training and mentoring girls are empowered to achieve their goals earn a meaningful…

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3
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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4
Care Canada

Care canada is a member of care international and international development and humanitarian organization which reaches communities in over 100 countries working to defend dignity and fight poverty by empowering women and girls. the needs…

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5
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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6
Kinvia

Kinvia previously known as Canadian Feed The Children is an international non-governmental organization supporting children youth and their communities in overcoming systemic barriers to their rights to nutritious and culturally…

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7
Youth Challenge International

Yci delivers creative market-ready solutions that catapult youth in canada and globally to succeed and prosper. yci's international programs contribute towards sustainable youth livelihoods. herstart innovate the future is an 8 year…

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8
United Way of the Alberta Capital Region

United way of the alberta capital region invests resources in specific programs and community-building activities with an emphasis on addressing the needs of the most vulnerable in our society. we make an impact in the areas of…

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9
Meda Impact Investments

MEDA Impact Investments combines innovative financial and technical expertise to build and enhance sustainable agri-food systems that provide decent work for people living in poverty with a focus on systematically marginalized communities…

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10
Clean Water International Canada Society

We believe every child has the right to clean water clean water international canada is dedicated to advancing wtaer sanitaion and hygiene (wash) through sustainable community-led programs. our work directly contributes to several united…

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11
World Vision Canada-Vision Mondiale Canada

World Vision Canada carries out programs in 55 countries which are funded through ongoing private and public funding and focuses on: • Livelihoods: including food environment & climate change and economic empowerment; • Health: including…

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12
War Child Canada

The charity War Child Canada helps families and communities in Afghanistan the Democratic Republic of Congo South Sudan Sudan Uganda and Yemen through education youth and women’s livelihoods support and other vital services. The charity…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Calgary and Area and the most unlike its peers is Project Maltioxinem 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

9 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. 9 of the 11 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)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
4/9
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetAMREF HEALTH AFRICA IN CANADA — C$74,167 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetFINCA CANADA — C$68,167 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCALAGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ASSOCIATION — C$43,486 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY UNITED WAY — C$33,455 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAITIAN EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$27,500 over 3y, 17% of budgetPROJECT MALTIOXINEM SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 46% of budgetMADE BY MOMMA — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetIndspire — C$6,167 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTRE OF CALGARY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

United Way of the Alb…BenefAction FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
United Way of the Alberta Capital RegionAB7.3× affinity4 shared granteesties to 6 of 6Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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 817505324:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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