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Elbow River, AB · Private foundation

The Bernie and Jan McCaffery Foundation

The foundation is established to receive maintain manage and invest funds and to apply such funds and the income earned therefrom to charitable organizations.

C$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$25k
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$10k5 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$37k
C$2,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREAC$25,000
RENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOUNDATIONC$12,000
ANGELS FOR MEXICO - PEACE PUNTA DE MITAC$7,050
CALGARY FOOD BANKC$2,000
BRANDON FLOCK FOUNDATIONC$2,000
LITTLE WARRIORSC$1,000
PALLIATIVE CARE SOCIETY OF THE BOW VALLEYC$1,000
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$434k · 13 repeat orgsC$61k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
9

Total granted

C$434k
C$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+22%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k 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

  • CH
    Calgary Health Trust
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$55k · revenue +10%
  • CF
    CALGARY FOOD BANK
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$23k · revenue +59%
  • TC
    THE CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARY AN ALBERTA SOCIET
    4× · 2018–2021 · C$20k · revenue +66%

Funded once

  • SF
    STARS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +29%
  • AA
    Alberta Adolescent Recovery Centre
    one grant, 2017 · C$7k · revenue -20%
  • CC
    Calgary Catholic Immigration Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +121%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
Alberta Cancer Foundation

The alberta cancer foundation provides funds for cancer research the prevention detection education and diagnosis of cancer and for the treatment and care of cancer patients within alberta.

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8
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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9
Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation

Charitable status was received on April 1 2018 and CAHF has been in a set up phase since that time. In this current fiscal year there has been activity related to preparing to deliver charitable activities which can be described as…

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10
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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11
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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12
Calgary Police Foundation

The calgary police foundation (cpf)operates under the name of the calgary police youth foundation. it's purpose is to educate youth about good citizenship safe communities policing and avoiding victimization and criminality. cpf does this…

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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 Governors of St. Francis Xavier University. 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

23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/23
Grantees still filing
15/23
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 budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$200,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Health Trust — C$55,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Children's Shelter of Hope Foundation — C$39,200 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetANGELS FOR MEXICO - PEACE PUNTA DE MITA — C$27,240 over 4y, 58% of budgetBrandon Flock Foundation — C$25,000 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetSTARS FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$23,400 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARY AN ALBERTA SOCIET — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Alex — C$15,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetRENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLITTLE WARRIORS — C$9,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetHeart and Stroke Foundation — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Adolescent Recovery Centre — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPALLIATIVE CARE SOCIETY OF THE BOW VALLEY — C$6,200 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetCalgary Catholic Immigration Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospice Calgary Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SHOE PROJECT — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CALGARY — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHARITABLE IMPACT FOUNDATION (CANADA) — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. FRANCIS XAVIER UNIVERSITY(DAVE BERNATCHEZ BURSARY FUND) — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY FOUNDATION (RYAN CHEN MEMORIAL FOUNDATION FUND) — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SOCIETY SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL CALGARY — C$1,000 over 1y, 2.2% 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 FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Atco Electric EpicBenefAction FoundationThe Edmonton Communit…Charitable Gift Funds…United Way of Greater…United Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
The Calgary FoundationAB10.4× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Electric Epic · BenefAction Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · 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 23 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 839603305:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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