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Edmonton, AB · Charitable organization

The Edmonton Folk Music Festival Society

The Edmonton Folk Music Festival is a four day festival of music held each year in early August in Edmonton’s scenic river valley.

C$37k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$14k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$24k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$3.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Edmonton Community FoundationC$14,120
In Trust for Thomeki FundC$10,000
Regina Folk Festival Inc.C$5,000
Arts on the Ave Edmonton SocietyC$4,618
CKUAC$2,000
First Alberta Campus Radio AssociationC$1,000
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.

45%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$233k · 5 repeat orgsC$288k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

C$233k
C$268k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+25%

Still filing today

80%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 47% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k 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

  • EC
    Edmonton Community Foundation
    4× · 2017–2022 · C$122k · revenue +99%
  • CR
    CKUA Radio Network
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$61k · revenue +21%
  • FA
    First Alberta Campus Radio Association
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$12k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • JF
    Jerry Forbes Centre Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$263k · revenue +89% · 39% of their budget
  • CR
    Canada Red Cross
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue -28%
  • NS
    No Stone Left Alone Memorial Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$200 · revenue +190%

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
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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3
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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4
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment…

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5
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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6
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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7
Community Foundation of Central Alberta

The foundation is a community catalyst committed to growing a legacy which strengthens the quality of life in red deer and central alberta. activities in support of their mission include: working with donors to enable them to meet their…

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8
Lieutenant Governor of Alberta Arts Awards Foundation

The foundation raises the profile of the arts in alberta through the following programs: even years: emerging artist awards: up to 10 awards of $10 000 each. odd years: distinguished artist awards: up to 3 rewards of $30 000 each.

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9
Alberta University of the Arts

Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.

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10
The Governors of the University of Calgary

The University of Calgary had 37 400 full time and part time students in the 2023/2024 fiscal year from over 100 countries registered in the following 15 faculties: Art Cummung School of Medicine Environmental Design Graduate Studies…

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11
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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12
Alberta Cancer Foundation

The alberta cancer foundation provides funds for cancer research the prevention detection education and diagnosis of cancer and for the treatment and care of cancer patients within alberta.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ckua Radio Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Alberta. 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

12 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. 12 of the 14 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
12/12
Grantees still filing
8/12
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 budgetJerry Forbes Centre Foundation — C$262,500 over 1y, 39% of budgetEdmonton Community Foundation — C$121,983 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCKUA Radio Network — C$60,875 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetFirst Alberta Campus Radio Association — C$12,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetCanada Red Cross — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetArts on the Ave Edmonton Society — C$4,618 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetThe Governors of the University of Alberta — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNo Stone Left Alone Memorial Foundation — C$200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetArts On The Ave Edmonton Society — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChristmas Bureau of Edmonton — C$139 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChange for Children — C$120 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 Edmonton Communit…The Dianne and Irving…United Way of the Alb…Atco Electric EpicEdmonton Oilers Commu…Telus Employees Chari…United Way of Calgary…BenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv ActAB10× affinity7 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 · The Dianne and Irving Kipnes Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Atco Electric Epic · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · United Way of Calgary and Area · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada

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 14 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 2024-01-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under arts.

Source object 128941226:2024-01-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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