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Edmonton, AB · Private foundation

The Dianne and Irving Kipnes Foundation

Funding of other charities

C$2.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.1M
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$10k2 grants · C$2k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$55k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$230k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$2.0M
C$25,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,100,000
UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTAC$600,000
NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$350,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADAC$230,000
OPERA NUOVAC$25,000
VARSONA THEATRE ALLIANCE SOCIETYC$20,000
ARTS ON THE AVENUEC$10,000
EDMONTON BETH SHALOM CONGREGATIONC$2,000
JAHSENAC$250
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$22M · 57 repeat orgsC$923k to everyone else

57 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 49 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
53

Total granted

C$22M
C$913k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+25%

Still filing today

96%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’24
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

  • UH
    UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$5.3M · revenue +25%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
    4× · 2017–2024 · C$5.2M · revenue ×1,050
  • EC
    EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$3.2M · revenue +493%

Funded once

  • AB
    ALBERTA BONE AND JOINT HEALTH INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$250k · revenue +28%
  • MH
    MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$172k · revenue +81%
  • EU
    EDMONTON UNITED JEWISH APPEAL
    one grant, 2019 · C$100k

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 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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2
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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3
Rozsa Foundation

Build capacity in arts organizations in alberta through grants; arts management training and awards; undertake arts-related research and advocacy.

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4
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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5
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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6
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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7
Calgary Arts Academy Foundation

In support of the calgary arts academy society to advance arts immersion in education so support capital endeavors for the society.

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8
Calgary Public Library Foundation

The Calgary Public Library Foundation's sole purpose is to raise funds for the Calgary Public Library to enhance programs and services provided to Calgarians.

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9
The Alberta Lung Foundation
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10
Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation

The alberta children's hospital foundation raises funds for excellence in child health research and family centred care. funding is provided to alberta health services and university of calgary for advanced pediatric research specialized…

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11
Friends of the University of Alberta

Fund Student Scholarships and Awards Sponsor public lectures featuring University Speakers Financially support university programs to engage the broader community

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12
Alberta Spine Foundation

The objective of the asf is to advance the delivery of spine care in alberta through innovative clinical care focused education and academic collaboration.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Brian Webb Dance Company. 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

109 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. 109 of the 111 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/109
Grantees still filing
77/109
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 budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,271,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA — C$5,207,500 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetEDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$3,235,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetNATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$2,100,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetPARTNERS IN HEALTH CANADA — C$2,040,000 over 3y, 51% of budgetEdmonton Opera — C$922,226 over 3y, 7.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$770,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetEDMONTON UNITED JEWISH APPEAL — C$392,750 over 3y, 18% of budgetJEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA — C$258,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA BONE AND JOINT HEALTH INSTITUTE — C$250,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$171,500 over 1y, 10% of budgetCITIE BALLET — C$153,756 over 2y, 30% of budgetUNITED WAY OF ALBERTA — C$141,535 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCAPITAL CARE FOUNDATION — C$90,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$66,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT - NAB & NWT — C$65,000 over 3y, 2.5% of budgetJohn Cameron Changing Lives - Singing Christmas Tree — C$60,000 over 3y, 3.0% of budgetLoran Scholars Foundation — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetOPERA NUOVA — C$55,000 over 3y, 3.5% of budgetEDMONTON FOOD BANK (EDMONTON GLEANERS ASSOCIATION) — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUnicef Canada — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBoys & Girls Club — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCLUB HOUSE SOCIETY OF EDMONTON (PROSPER PLACE) — C$40,000 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetVARSONA THEATRE ALLIANCE SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetNO STONE LEFT ALONE — C$36,000 over 3y, 7.3% of budgetMANITOBA OPERA — C$35,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetB'NAI BRITH — C$33,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFringe Theatre — C$32,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetRideau Hall Foundation — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetE4C — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetAUTISM EDMONTON — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFRIENDS OF SIMON WIESENTHAL — C$22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFORT EDMONTON FOUNDATION — C$21,450 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetARTS ON THE AVENUE — C$21,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetEDMONTON INTERNATIONAL STREET PERFORMERS FESTIVAL — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetWEIZMANN CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALS Society of Alberta — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBRIAN WEBB DANCE COMPANY — C$20,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetCALGARY FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWIN HOUSE — C$16,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCATALYST THEATRE — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetALBERTA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$15,000 over 2y, 5.8% of budgetHOCKEY HELPS THE HOMELESS — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES AB — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetAB Council of Women's Shelters — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCANTILON CHORAL SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.9% 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 Edmonton Communit…Edmonton Oilers Commu…Allard Foundation Ltd.Butler Family Foundat…The Stollery Charitab…Abc Benefits Corporat…Atco Electric EpicShelley and Guy Scott…Atco Gas Employees' C…United Way of the Alb…Wheaton Family Founda…Telus Employees Chari…
The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv ActAB33.2× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Allard Foundation Ltd. · Butler Family Foundation · The Stollery Charitable Foundation · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Shelley and Guy Scott Family Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Wheaton Family Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust

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 111 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 890553449:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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