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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Begin Family Charitable Foundation

We donate funds to registered charity organizations that support services programs and education for children youth and families.

C$88k
Granted FY2024still arriving
1
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$88k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 1 grant

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$87,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$87,500
02Your 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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The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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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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3
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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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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The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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6
Cups Calgary Society

CUPS supports Calgarians impacted by poverty trauma and systemic marginalization with a unique integrated approach to care. We empower people to work holistically to create and achieve goals that support their well-being and build…

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7
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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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
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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10
Calgary Homeless Foundation

Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness. Providing grants to qualified donees and other community organizations to assist individuals experiencing homelessness…

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Canadian Institute of Child Health
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Even Start for Children Society of Calgary

Early intervention working with high risk preschool children.. working with high risk children and their families

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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 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

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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
9/9
Grantees still filing
7/9
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$267,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUnited Way - Calgary and Area — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHULL SERVICES — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHBANK SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetTRELLIS SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINGS OF HOPE BREAST CANCER FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA (GEERING UP FUND) — C$5,000 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.

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 9 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 723688529:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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