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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Donald And Eleanor Seaman Family Foundation

Makes gifts to certain other charities

C$407k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$103k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$30k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$225k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$153k
C$15,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$7.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREAC$102,500
SPORT FOR CALGARY FOUNDATIONC$50,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$45,600
INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT LEARNINGC$34,000
PARKS FOUNDATION CALGARYC$25,000
KALEO COLLECTIVEC$25,000
WILDER INSTITUTE (FORM. CALGARY ZOO)C$20,000
RENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICESC$20,000
CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETYC$20,000
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$15,000
HERITAGE PARKC$10,000
ALBERTA GUIDE DOGSC$10,000
CALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CNIBC$5,000
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.4M · 13 repeat orgsC$224k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +69% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
15

Total granted

C$1.4M
C$107k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+5%

Still filing today

92%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$118k 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
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$182k · revenue +27%
  • IC
    INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT LEARNING
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$109k · revenue +31% · 41% of their budget
  • WI
    WILDER INSTITUTE (FORM. CALGARY ZOO)
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$80k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • UA
    United Active Living Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$30k · revenue -100%
  • RE
    RENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k · revenue +5%
  • HP
    HERITAGE PARK
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k

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
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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2
Casa Mental Health

CASA Mental Health delivers holistic culturally safe wrap-around mental health services to Albertans aged 3 - 18 and their families. Major programs include Residential and Day Programs that consist of CASA House Preschool Day Programs…

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3
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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4
Calgary Counselling Centre

1) Individual couples family and group counselling services to children youth and adults in distress. 2) Provide preventative counselling services for a wide range of personal needs. 3) We educate university students in counselling to…

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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 Family Therapy Centre

Calgary family therapy centre provides a mental health treatment program for children and their families who are experiencing difficulties. it is a clinical outpatient therapy program that offers specialized services in family therapy. the…

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7
Calgary Learns Association

The Alberta Government funds the Provincial Community Adult Learning Program (CALP). It is the role of individual CALPs across the province to ensure the delivery of part-time non-formal literacy and foundational learning opportunities to…

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8
Centre for Sexuality Society

We provide programs and services that support healthy bodies healthy relationships and healthy communities. we facilitate a comprehensive relationships and sexual health education program in calgary and the surrounding area we offer…

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9
Centre for Autism Services Alberta

Intensive intervention and ECS programs for children youth teens and young adults with autism Family support services Therapeutic and recreational groups for children youth teens and young adults with autism Employment readiness and…

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10
Beam Foundation

BEAM Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of kids & youth in Calgary Alberta. Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable wellness programs to children and youth who are…

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11
Kids With Cancer Society of Northern Alberta

The Kids with Cancer Society offers programming to assist families in the following areas: Support - Provides the necessary tools to help families cope for the demands of the treatment and minimize family disruption and related stress.…

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12
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Perimeter Institute. 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

34 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. 34 of the 37 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
20/34
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 budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$826,700 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$181,950 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetINTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR DEVELOPMENT LEARNING — C$109,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetWILDER INSTITUTE (FORM. CALGARY ZOO) — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDRENS COTTAGE SOCIETY — C$70,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetRENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES — C$60,000 over 3y, 32% of budgetSPORT FOR CALGARY FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 9.4% of budgetPerimeter Institute for Theoretical Physics — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Active Living Foundation — C$30,000 over 1y, 24% of budgetKALEO COLLECTIVE — C$29,000 over 3y, 4.4% of budgetRENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA GUIDE DOGS — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTRELLIS SOCIETY (FORM. BOYS & GIRLS CLUB) — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHERITAGE PARK — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR AFFORDABLE WATER & SANITATION TECHNOLOGY (CAWST) — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetIMPACT SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLUNA CHILD & YOUTH ADVOCACY CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKERBY CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRESH START RECOVERY CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCNIB — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA ADOLESCENT RECOVERY CENTRE (AARC) — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Shaama Centre for Seniors & Women — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRE FOR WHOLENESS & WELL BEING — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetWOOD'S HOMES FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CHILDREN'S GRIEF CENTRE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDELTA WATER FOWL — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM ASPERGERS FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Calgary Flames Founda…United Way of Calgary…The Calgary FoundationAtco Electric EpicKanovsky Family Found…Hunter Family Foundat…Calgary Shaw Charity …Cenovus Employee Foun…Aqueduct FoundationTELUS Friendly Future…Atco Gas Employees' C…Werklund Foundation
Calgary Flames FoundationAB15.8× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Flames Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Kanovsky Family Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Werklund 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 37 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 advancing education.

Source object 118886977:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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