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Calgary, AB · Public foundation

The Calgary Rotary Clubs Foundation

The objective of THE CALGARY ROTARY CLUBS FOUNDATION is to receive maintain and invest funds from members of the rotary clubs in calgary and to distribute funds to such rotary clubs for benevolent philanthropic charitable provident educational or other purposes.

C$2.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$2.2M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$18k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$57k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$89k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$2.6M
C$7,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$66M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY - COMMUNITY SERVICE FUNDC$2,213,553
ROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY AT STAMPEDE PARK - COMMUNITY SERVICEC$338,381
ROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY NORTH FOUNDATIONC$88,856
WEST CALGARY ROTARY CLUB - COMMUNITY SERVICE FUNDC$44,248
CHINOOK ROTARY CLUB SOCIETYC$12,553
EMMA MATERNITY HOUSE SOCIETYC$7,500
SHELTERBOX CANADAC$5,000
CALGARY OPERA ASSOCIATIONC$2,600
ROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY SARCEEC$1,110
THE MUSTARD SEED SOCIETYC$1,000
VETERANS ASSOCIATION FOOD BANKC$600
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$16M · 8 repeat orgsC$481k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

C$16M
C$131k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$350k 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

  • TR
    THE ROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY - COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$14M · revenue +33% · 77% of their budget
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY AT STAMPEDE PARK - COMMUNITY SERVICE
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$1.3M · revenue +13% · 49% of their budget
  • RC
    ROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY NORTH FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$492k · revenue +14% · 98% of their budget

Funded once

  • RC
    Rotary Club of Calgary North Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$73k
  • CN
    CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND
    one grant, 2021 · C$12k · revenue +24%
  • IC
    I CAN FOR KIDSgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +99%

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 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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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
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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4
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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5
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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6
Calgary Drop-in & Rehab Centre Society

The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre provides access to a spectrum of care that supports adults at risk of homelessness to the most independent living possible - including various emergency shelter programs and services and affordable and…

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7
Calgary Co-Op Community Foundation

Relief of poverty through food security and other supports for vulnerable populations including at-risk youth seniors and others in the community; Advancement of education through scholarships bursaries and grants Providing benefit to the…

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8
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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9
Bild Calgary Region Foundation

BILD Calgary Region Foundation was incorporated in 1986 with a mandate; to aid the community in which members of BILD Calgary Region work and live by supporting shelter related charitable initiatives education opportunities and shelter…

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10
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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11
Calgary Rangers Foundation

The foundation was formed to alleviate financial barriers to participating in physical activity for children in need and raises funding for this program.

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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 The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund and the most unlike its peers is Chinook Rotary Club 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

26 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. 26 of the 30 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
14/26
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 ROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY - COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND — C$13,907,552 over 7y, 77% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY AT STAMPEDE PARK - COMMUNITY SERVICE — C$1,310,097 over 6y, 49% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY NORTH FOUNDATION — C$491,551 over 6y, 98% of budgetWEST CALGARY ROTARY CLUB - COMMUNITY SERVICE FUND — C$249,129 over 7y, 61% of budgetCHINOOK ROTARY CLUB SOCIETY — C$73,755 over 7y, 97% of budgetCANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND — C$11,988 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRotary Club of Calgary Sarcee — C$7,852 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetEMMA MATERNITY HOUSE SOCIETY — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSHELTERBOX CANADA — C$6,200 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetI CAN FOR KIDS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBETHANY CARE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetFIELD OF CROSSES — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH TRUST — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORY OUTREACH FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYOUTH SINGERS OF CALGARY - STAR — C$2,804 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY OPERA ASSOCIATION — C$2,600 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetI CAN FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShaw Charity Classic Foundation — C$2,472 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALPHA HOUSE SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ORCHESTRA SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetRECOVERY ACRES (CALGARY) SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVETERANS ASSOCIATION FOOD BANK — C$600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BRANCH POPPY FUN — C$500 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.

The Rotary Club of Ca…The Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Calgary Flames Founda…Carthy FoundationAtco Electric EpicViewpoint FoundationBonnie & Daryl Howard…West Calgary Rotary C…West Island College S…The Prosser Charitabl…The Masonic Foundatio…
The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service FundAB14.3× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund · The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Calgary Flames Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Viewpoint Foundation · Bonnie & Daryl Howard Charitable Foundation · West Calgary Rotary Club - Community Service Fund · West Island College Society of Alberta · The Prosser Charitable Foundation · The Masonic Foundation of Alberta

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 30 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 2024-02-28, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 119218097:2024-02-28 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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