Calgary, AB · Public foundation
The Cochrane and District Community Foundation
The foundation continues to take applications for qualified and unqualified donees in and around the cochrane area which funds earned on its endowment fund are used to fund the chosen donees and their programs.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k19 grants · C$70k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Cochrane and District Ag Society | C$10,000 |
| CEI & Cochrane Wildlife Reserve Society | C$5,172 |
| Canadian Adaptive Snowsport Alberta Association | C$5,000 |
| STARS | C$5,000 |
| Cochrane and Area Health Foundation | C$5,000 |
| Extreme Cowboy Alberta Association | C$5,000 |
| Jensen Ranch Rescue Society | C$5,000 |
| Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation | C$4,850 |
| Cochrane Search and Rescue Association | C$4,575 |
| Cochrane Public Library | C$4,300 |
| Bethany Care Foundation | C$3,550 |
| Helping Hands Society Cochrane and Area | C$3,200 |
| Cochrane and Area Humane Society | C$2,950 |
| SLSRPS | C$2,750 |
| Beaupre Community Association | C$2,684 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 89% of grant dollars (C$237k). The 11% that went abroad (C$30k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 11% of all-years giving (C$30k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
10 repeat relationships — 0 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 20 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 0% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$80k 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
- TOTown of Cochrane2× · 2022–2023 · C$59k
- GRGLENBOW RANCH PARK FOUNDATION2× · 2022–2023 · C$15k
- CACOCHRANE AND AREA HUMANE SOCIETY2× · 2022–2023 · C$12k
Funded once
- BABOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF COCHRANEone grant, 2022 · C$8k
- CACanadian Adaptive Snowsport Alberta Associationone grant, 2023 · C$7k
- CFCALGARY FOUNDATIONone grant, 2021 · 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.
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.
Rescue abused and abandoned animals provide verterinary care as needed and find loving homes for these animals. provide spay/neuter clinic in remote locations.
We are a volunteer group located in southwestern Alberta. Our goal is to provide our community and surrounding area with ground search and rescue services. We have training sessions and specific training courses to ensure our volunteers…
We operate a proper rescue and handling facility for wild horses that is safe for the public and where we provide presentations on the history of wild horses in alberta. we rescue gentle and rehome wild horses through our adoption program.…
The Banff Centre operates under the authority of the Post-Secondary Learning Act (Statutes of Alberta 2003 Chapter P-19.5). The Centre provides the public with the opportunity to access a broad range of learning experiences.
Develops operates promotes integrated zoological botanical & prehistoric parks for the combined purpose of conservation research recreation & scientific study.
Crime prevention public safety preservation of law and order
Post secondary education and training in technology applied arts and trades.
Our organization trains and deploys search and rescue dog and handler teams plus field techs to aid tasking agencies (police/fire) in searching for missing persons/evidence. We have approximately 30 members who have donated 9 500 hours…
To return lost pets to their owners and give homeless animals a new forever home.
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…
Rescue homeless lost stray or abandoned dogs and cats on request from rural areas and communities with limited resources in order to prevent and alleviate animal suffering and reduce pet overpopulation; provide dogs and cats with food…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Cochrane and Area Humane Society and the most unlike its peers is The Bethany Care Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
13 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. 13 of the 41 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 CEI & Cochrane Wildlife Reserve Society ↗
- Who funds STARS ↗
- Who funds Canadian Adaptive Snowsport Alberta Association ↗
- Who funds Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation ↗
- Who funds Cochrane Search and Rescue Association ↗
- Who funds Cochrane Public Library ↗
- Who funds Bethany Care Foundation ↗
- Who funds Helping Hands Society Cochrane and Area ↗
- Who funds Cochrane and Area Humane Society ↗
- Who funds Cochrane Boys and Girls Club ↗
- Who funds University of Calgary ↗
- Who funds University of Alberta ↗
- Who funds Glenbow Ranch Park Foundation ↗
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: Totem Charitable Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Electric Epic · Nickle Family Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.