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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Brawn Family Foundation.

Supporting capital projects and programs that impact the Calgary and surrounding area by generating opportunities for its citizens.

C$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.5M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$18k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$32k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$728k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.5M
C$100,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$36M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
The Calgary ZooC$1,500,000
Canada West FoundationC$150,000
University of CalgaryC$133,333
Lougheed HouseC$125,000
Canadian Global Affairs InstituteC$115,000
Southern Alberta Institute of TechnologyC$105,000
Breakthrough T1D CanadaC$100,000
Bow Valley SPCAC$12,000
Childrens Hospital Aid SocietyC$10,000
Red Deer Hospice SocietyC$10,000
Canadian FOP NetworkC$5,000
Alberta Cancer FoundationC$5,000
Rotary Club of Stampede ParkC$5,000
Vertigo TheatreC$2,500
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$8.9M · 26 repeat orgsC$1.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
25

Total granted

C$8.9M
C$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+23%

Still filing today

92%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$135k 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

  • TC
    The Calgary Zoo
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$4.1M · revenue +26%
  • CR
    Calgary Rotary Clubs Foundation
    2× · 2018–2022 · C$1.1M · revenue +126%
  • SP
    SAIT Polytechnic
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$680k · revenue +31%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Lethbridge
    one grant, 2019 · C$230k · revenue +1%
  • MR
    Mount Royal University
    one grant, 2020 · C$150k
  • CS
    CanLearn Society
    one grant, 2018 · C$100k · 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
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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2
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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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 Eye Foundation

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

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5
Calgary Public Library Foundation

The Calgary Public Library Foundation's sole purpose is to raise funds for the Calgary Public Library to enhance programs and services provided to Calgarians.

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6
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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7
Calgary Arts Academy Foundation

In support of the calgary arts academy society to advance arts immersion in education so support capital endeavors for the society.

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8
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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9
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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10
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Mustard Seed Foundation. 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

47 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. 47 of the 53 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)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
47/47
Grantees still filing
37/47
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 Calgary Zoo — C$4,118,000 over 7y, 1.9% of budgetCalgary Rotary Clubs Foundation — C$1,050,000 over 2y, 18% of budgetSAIT Polytechnic — C$680,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation — C$525,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetCanada West Foundation — C$350,000 over 3y, 8.6% of budgetThe University of Calgary — C$339,766 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHeritage Park Society — C$254,107 over 2y, 19% of budgetUniversity of Lethbridge — C$230,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEmpowering Minds — C$171,200 over 3y, 18% of budgetCanadian Global Affairs Institute — C$130,000 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetLougheed House — C$125,000 over 1y, 13% of budgetCanLearn Society — C$100,000 over 1y, 5.6% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southern Alberta — C$100,000 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetDucks Unlimited Canada — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Shaw Classic Foundation — C$75,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMount Royal University Foundation — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetWellspring Calgary — C$47,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetChildrens Hospital Aid Society — C$45,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetRotary Club Calgary South — C$39,200 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetCanadian FOP Network — C$27,000 over 6y, 54% of budgetAlberta Champions Society — C$25,000 over 1y, 7.6% of budgetAlberta Cancer Foundation — C$19,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBow Valley SPCA — C$17,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetCerebral Palsy KIds and Families — C$15,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetVertigo Theatre Society — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetHomes for Heroes Foundation — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRed Deer Hospice Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCalgary Health Trust — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanmore Wolverines — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJack Dot Org — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetField of Crossess — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSocial Venture Partners Calgary Ltd — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetRedcliff Scholarships — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Chinook Scout Foundation — C$4,552 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCalgary Philharmonic Orchestra — C$4,350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPalliative Care Society of the Bow Valley — C$3,800 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetMustard Seed — C$3,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBasic Health International Foundation — C$2,500 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetAlberta Childrens Hospital Foundation — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeukemia and Lymphoma Society — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHeritage Park Society — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMorpheus Theatre Society — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetOne Walk to Conquer Cancer — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Food Bank — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCINIM — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetYWCA Banff — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMayan Families Canada — C$500 over 1y, 0.6% 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…Calgary Shaw Charity …Viewpoint FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…Jewish Community Foun…The Jeffrey and Maril…Carthy FoundationThe Taylor Family Fou…Cenovus Employee Foun…Atco Electric EpicThe Edmonton Communit…
The Calgary FoundationAB20.5× affinity30 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 · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation · Carthy Foundation · The Taylor Family Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act

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 53 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 2024-11-30, 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 860545292:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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