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The Community Opportunity Foundation of Alberta

THE COMMUNITY OPPORTUNITY FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA 'the 'foundation') was established to undertake activities to advance education and religion in canada with a particular focus on health wellness spiritual growth and awareness as well as undertaking activities to relieve poverty in community through the provision of donations to…

C$76k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$16k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$60k
C$10,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
STARS FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CALGARY FOOD BANKC$10,000
SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITYC$10,000
CALGARY'S WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTERC$10,000
BROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY'S KIDSC$10,000
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
NAVIGATORS OF CANADA - U OF C MINISTRYC$6,000
THE MUSTARD SEEDC$5,000
INN FROM THE COLDC$5,000
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$456k · 17 repeat orgsC$34k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against -19% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
3

Total granted

C$456k
C$24k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
-19%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k 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

  • AC
    ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$60k · revenue +30%
  • CF
    CALGARY FOOD BANK
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$50k · revenue +18%
  • TN
    THE NAVIGATORS OF CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$46k · revenue +8%

Funded once

  • CO
    Church of the Holy Trinity
    one grant, 2017 · C$20k · revenue -22%
  • OH
    OXFORD HOUSE
    one grant, 2023 · C$2k · revenue -19%
  • CK
    COMMUNITY KITCHEN
    one grant, 2023 · C$2k · revenue +10%

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
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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3
Calgary Meals On Wheels

CALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS IS A LEADER IN PROVIDING HEALTHY LOCALLY MADE MEALS TO OUR CITY 365 DAYS A YEAR. WE TAKE PRIDE IN MAKING NUTRITIOUS & AFFORDABLE MEALS FRESH FROM OUR FACILITY TO THOUSANDS OF VULNERABLE CALGARIANS EACH YEAR. OUR…

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4
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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5
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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6
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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7
Calgary Keys to Recovery Society

Calgary Keys to Recovery Society provides housing and case management services to at risk individuals upon their exit from addictions treatment.

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8
Canadian Veterans Services Society

The charity oeprates 4 food bank warehouses across alberta and british columbia. canadian veteran services society strives to support all military and first responder personnel by providing reliable and free food used clothing items…

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9
Calgary Alpha House Society

Calgary alpha house society provides safe and caring environments for individuals whose lives are affected by alcohol and other drug dependencies. our continuum of programs helps connect these individuals with multiple levels of support…

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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 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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12
Homelessness Services Association of Bc

The society provides support to and enhance the capacity of organizations in bc that serve the homeless and those at risk of homelessness. the society provides training to front line shelter workers throughout the province. there are…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mustard Seed Society and the most unlike its peers is Church of the Holy Trinity. 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

21 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
17/21
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 budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NAVIGATORS OF CANADA — C$46,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSTARS FOUNDATION — C$43,000 over 5y, 29% of budgetFEAR IS NOT LOVE SOCIETY — C$42,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$40,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY'S KIDS — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetMUSTARD SEED — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetWELLSPRING CALGARY — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetChurch of the Holy Trinity — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$14,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBC & ALBERTA GUIDE DOGS — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetSIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHOPE MISSION — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNTAIN EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOXFORD HOUSE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLEFTOVERS FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% 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.

United Way of Calgary…The Calgary FoundationUnited Way of the Alb…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
United Way of Calgary and AreaAB8.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 7 of 7Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · 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.

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 21 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 public foundation under support of schools and education.

Source object 886614122:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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