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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Daniel Family Foundation

The foundation has been established to carry out objects of exclusively charitable nature by gifting funds to qualified donees as defined in the income tax act.

C$1.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$250k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$135k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$435k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$750k
C$25,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$18M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$250,000
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$250,000
PERIMETER INSTITUTEC$250,000
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$200,000
UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIAC$150,000
PTARMIGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$85,000
OUTWARD BOUND CANADAC$40,000
UNITED WAY OF CALGARYC$25,000
SPIRIT NORTHC$25,000
LIGHT UP THE WORLDC$25,000
RESET SOCIETY OF CALGARYC$10,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF BCC$10,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN ALBERTAC$5,000
ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATIONC$1,000
PLAN INTERNATIONALC$500
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.5M · 17 repeat orgsC$127k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

17 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
10

Total granted

C$6.5M
C$127k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+15%

Still filing today

100%
80%

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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +27%
  • PI
    PERIMETER INSTITUTE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +69%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • LU
    LIGHT UP THE WORLD
    one grant, 2020 · C$60k
  • CE
    Cenovus Employee Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$25k
  • TC
    THE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND L'INSTITUT
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +15%

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
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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2
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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3
The University of Manitoba

The University of Manitoba provides post-secondary education to undergraduate graduate and professional students. The University also conducts research in a broad array of academic disciplines. There are numerous educational and research…

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4
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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5
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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6
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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7
University of Victoria

The University of Victoria is a comprehensive research university offering a wide range of undergraduate graduate and continuing studies programs.

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8
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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9
Banff Forum

The Banff Forum's objective is to advance education by hosting an annual forum and events across the country that bring together emerging and established leaders across all sectors and regions to enhance their leadership skills and support…

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10
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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11
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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12
Northern Alberta Urology Foundation

Research prostate cancer awareness

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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 Light Up the World. 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 27 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
19/26
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$1,260,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPERIMETER INSTITUTE — C$1,250,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$1,120,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$500,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$482,300 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND CANADA — C$421,000 over 7y, 2.7% of budgetPTARMIGAN CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$405,600 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetLIGHT UP THE WORLD — C$300,500 over 6y, 10% of budgetWELLSPRING CALGARY — C$225,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetUnited Way of Calgary — C$210,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN BLIND HOCKEY — C$125,000 over 5y, 11% of budgetSPIRIT NORTH — C$100,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetRESET SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$65,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetJA SOUTHERN ALBERTA — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetCenovus Employee Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTHE CANADIAN NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR THE BLIND L'INSTITUT — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF BC — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$13,448 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Cancer Foundation — C$11,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT NORTHERN ALBERTA & NWT — C$3,900 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetINTERGEN IMPACT SOCIETY — C$2,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAthol Murray College of Notre Dame — C$2,250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOVEMBER CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 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.

The Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Ptarmigan Charitable …Viewpoint FoundationCarthy FoundationRaymond James Canada …United Way of the Alb…BenefAction FoundationAtco Electric EpicThe Edmonton Communit…Charitable Gift Funds…Aqueduct Foundation
The Calgary FoundationAB11.4× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Ptarmigan Charitable Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · BenefAction Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct 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 27 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 832744791:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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