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Cochrane, AB · Private foundation

The Byler Foundation

The general purpose of the foundation is to receive and maintain funds to be applied for the benefit of other charitable organizations in canada.

C$192k
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$80k
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$10k10 grants · C$33k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$80k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$80k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CAHS (COCHRANE AND AREA HUMANE SOCIETY)C$80,000
UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREAC$29,500
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$25,000
TRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACTC$25,000
THE CALGARY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYC$5,000
RADIANCE FAMILY SOCIETYC$5,000
KIDS HELP PHONEC$5,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$2,500
CAWST CENTRE FOR AFFORDABLE WATER & SANITATION TECHNC$2,500
CALGARY YOUTH JUSTICE SOCIETYC$2,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CALGARY AND AREAC$2,500
ALBERTA INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATIONC$2,500
ALBERTA GUIDE DOG SERVICESC$2,500
ALBERTA BIRDS OF PREY FOUNDATIONC$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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 17 repeat orgsC$43k 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 +7% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
5

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+51%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TU
    TROUT UNLIMITED CANADA
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$210k · revenue +33%
  • BG
    BOYS + GIRLS CLUB OF CALGARY
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$168k · revenue +101%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$150k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • EV
    ELK VALLEY REGIONAL LAND TRUST SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue -99%
  • R
    Resolve
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +7%
  • OH
    Oxford Housegraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue +91%

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 Wildlife Rehabilitation Society

The calgary wildlife rehabilitaion society is dedicated to treating injured and orphaned wildlife and providing valuable outreach and education to the public as well as engaging volunteers in motivational and building experiences.

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2
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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3
Calgary Humane Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The mission of the Society is to Protect Animals. Support People. Create A More Humane World. The Society offers services to the Calgary and surrounding areas in the sheltering and care of animals adoptions protection and investigation and…

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4
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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5
Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society

Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society supplies funding primarily to Qualified Donees that support spay and neuter assistance programs in Calgary and surrounding areas.

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6
The Alberta Ecotrust Foundation

Alberta ecotrust foundation implements programs and projects to protect the environment which includes protecting the quality of air and water wildlife habitat parks and suburban land use. in addition to its own projects and in pursuit of…

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7
Southern Alberta Land Trust Society

Facilitating the protection of ecologically valuable private land in Southern Alberta in partnership with landowners through the use of conservation easements which are enabled through provincial legislation and further supported through…

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8
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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9
Heritage Calgary

Advise city council on all matters relating to heritage resources in Calgary. Evaluating potential heritage sites and maintaining inventory of evaluated historic resources. Promoting public awareness of Calgary's heritage.

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10
Homespace Society

Homespace society is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to creatively apply expertise to increase and manage the number of affordable and specialized housing units in calgary

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Homeless Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Elk Valley Regional Land Trust 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

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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
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 budgetTROUT UNLIMITED CANADA — C$210,000 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$184,750 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS + GIRLS CLUB OF CALGARY — C$167,500 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$150,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAHS (COCHRANE AND AREA HUMANE SOCIETY) — C$128,500 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetSocial Venture Partners — C$65,000 over 5y, 5.9% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$40,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCAWST Centre for Affordable Water & Sanitation Technology — C$40,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetBIRDIES FOR KIDS — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY YOUTH JUSTICE SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$22,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetSONSHINE COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALBERTA INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION — C$17,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$17,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS SOCIETY OF COCHRANE — C$17,500 over 2y, 7.8% of budgetALBERTA BIRDS OF PREY FOUNDATION — C$17,500 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBC & ALBERTA GUIDE DOG SERVICES — C$17,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetELK VALLEY REGIONAL LAND TRUST SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetResolve — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOxford House — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTHE CALGARY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Health Trust — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Doorway — C$3,600 over 1y, 0.8% 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 FoundationAtco Electric EpicUnited Way of Calgary…Cenovus Employee Foun…United Way of the Alb…Calgary Shaw Charity …Atco Gas Employees' C…Place2Give FoundationThe Calgary Roman Cat…Nickle Family Foundat…Private Giving Founda…Aqueduct Foundation
The Calgary FoundationAB14.3× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · United Way of Calgary and Area · Cenovus Employee Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Place2Give Foundation · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Nickle Family Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation

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 813875556:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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