Carstairs, AB · Charitable organization
The Carstairs and District Community Chest
Telephone and newspaper ads campaign feb-aug 2020 volunteers were used
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| CARSTAIRS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL | C$1,948 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against -4% for the ones you funded once.
12 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2021, 11 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2021, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- CECARSTAIRS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL3× · 2019–2021 · C$26k · revenue +6%
- TSTHE SALVATION ARMY4× · 2017–2020 · C$24k · revenue ×199
- MVMOUNTAIN VIEW FOOD BANK SOCIETY4× · 2017–2020 · C$24k · revenue +14%
Funded once
- CACENTRAL ALBERTA PREGNANCY CARE CENTRE SOCIETYone grant, 2019 · C$7k · revenue -4%
- CACHINOOK ARCH VICTIMS SERVICESone grant, 2019 · C$7k
- HSHORIZON SCHOOLone grant, 2018 · C$6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Mvsh is a housing management body established by ministerial order under the alberta housing act. within mountain view county weoperate senior's lodges community housing and apartments for independent seniors. we also administer the rent…
Providing funding for specialized equipment furniture or activities for mountain view seniors' housing residents.
To provide low cost housing to senior citizens
To further health care education for the residents of the town of rocky mountain house and clearwater county by soliciting and using property for th general benefit of alberta health services facilities and programs there operated
We operate a school from kindergarten to grade 12. we offer comprehensive and accredited alberta education programs and curriculum to students thereby preparing them for the challenges of life and helping them become responsible members of…
Providing education services to students grades K-12. Providing education supports in the form of early intervention programs student services supports guidance and vocational programming.
Provide wheelchair-accessible shared-ride community transportation enabling access to community supports and services for : 1) seniors 2) persons with disabilities and 3) low-income rural residents. Approximately 15 750 trips provided…
Heart river housing provides and promotes healthy safe independent living and strives to provide affordable housing options in our communities. heart river housing manages 172 lodge suites in three northern alberta communities. these…
Advocate for and develop affordable housing opportunities in the columbia valley
The mountain rose women's shelter association provides supports to ensure that women and children at risk of or fleeing abuse have shelter food clothing and other necessities available to maintain a dignified and safe standard of living…
To provide services for aboriginal people on a status-blind basis that build capacity for increased physical mental emotional and spiritual health within marginalized and under -served populations who are or are at risk of being affected…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mountain View Emergency Shelter Society and the most unlike its peers is The Chinook's Edge School Division. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
8 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. 8 of the 17 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds CARSTAIRS ELEMENTARY SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW SPECIAL RIDING ASSOCIATION ↗
- Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW FOOD BANK SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
- Who funds MOUNTAIN VIEW EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds ROSEBUD HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CENTRAL ALBERTA PREGNANCY CARE CENTRE SOCIETY ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Didsbury Pastoral Charge Knox United Church · St John's Anglican Church · The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · 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.