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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Carrera Foundation

The foundation continues its support of poverty reduction and education programs in calgary.

C$300k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$125k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$25k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$275k
C$100,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$976k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETYC$125,000
CUPS CALGARYC$100,000
UNITED WAY OF CALGARYC$50,000
INN FROM THE COLDC$25,000
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.6M · 9 repeat orgsC$168k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
15

Total granted

C$2.6M
C$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+26%

Still filing today

100%
60%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • CC
    CUPS CALGARY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$800k · revenue +47%
  • MC
    MOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$750k · revenue +20%
  • IF
    INN FROM THE COLD SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$400k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • HS
    HULL SERVICES
    one grant, 2018 · C$130k
  • CY
    CALGARY YOUNG MENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k

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
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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3
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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4
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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5
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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6
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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7
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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8
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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9
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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10
Brown Bagging for Calgary's Kids Society

BB4CK is dedicated to supporting children and youth facing food insecurity by providing nutritious meals that promote healthy growth and development. We collaborate with local partners schools and volunteers to implement sustainable…

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11
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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12
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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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 Seniors Secret Service 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

19 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. 19 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
15/19
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 budgetCUPS CALGARY — C$800,000 over 8y, 0.7% of budgetMOMENTUM COMMUNITY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT SOCIETY — C$750,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD SOCIETY — C$400,000 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY — C$270,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetHULL SERVICES — C$260,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetYMCA CALGARY — C$65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS AND BIG SISTERS — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$10,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$2,604 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP CARMANGAY — C$1,300 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCALGARY BOARD OF EDUCATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOOTHFAIRY KIDS ORGANIZATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetSEMOPRS SECRET SERVOCE — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTEPHEN'S BACKPACK SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH TRUST — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING CALGARY — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWILL FOR RIDING FOUNDATION — C$200 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Olympia Charitable Fo…Cenovus Employee Foun…The Calgary FoundationViewpoint FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Carthy FoundationThe Arthur J E Child …Children's Hospital A…Calgary Flames Founda…Calgary Shaw Charity …Canada GivesThe Jules Foundation
Olympia Charitable FoundationAB12.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Olympia Charitable Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Carthy Foundation · The Arthur J E Child Foundation · Children's Hospital Aid Society · Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Canada Gives · The Jules 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 24 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 823416227:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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