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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Flanagan Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to maintain a fund and to apply all the income there from annually to qualified donees under provisions of the income tax act

C$3.3M
Granted FY2024still arriving
33
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 33 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$200k
  • C$50k–250k24 grants · C$1.8M
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$1.3M
C$50,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$74M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGEC$1,300,000
FEDERATION OF ONTARIO NATURALISTSC$200,000
ROSZA FOUNDATIONC$150,000
THE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITYC$100,000
LEAF (WOMEN'S LEGAL EDUCATIONC$100,000
WINDMILL MICROLENDINGC$100,000
LEARNING ENRICHMENT FOUNDATIONC$100,000
LUMINOUS VOICES MUSIC SOCIETYC$75,000
ROSEBUD FELLOWSHIPC$75,000
CARE CANADAC$75,000
ASSOCIATION OF EARLY CHILDHOODC$75,000
CATHERDRAL BLUFFS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRAC$75,000
FEAR IS NOT LOVE SOCIETYC$75,000
SLED ISLAND ARTS FELLOWSHIPC$50,000
CALGARY LEARNS ASSOCIATIONC$50,000
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.

53%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.1M · 33 repeat orgsC$8.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

33 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 26 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
74

Total granted

C$9.1M
C$5.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 12% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.9M 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

  • TU
    The University of Alberta - Parkland Foundation
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$1.8M · revenue ×1,050 · 52% of their budget
  • CU
    CONCORDIA UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2018–2023 · C$1.3M · revenue +37%
  • TU
    THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • UN
    United Nation High Commission on Refugees - Transformation I
    one grant, 2017 · C$1.0M
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH
    one grant, 2022 · C$1.0M · revenue +15%
  • CM
    COAST MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$250k · revenue +39% · 51% of their budget

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
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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3
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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4
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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5
The Walrus Foundation

The Walrus Foundation publishes independent fact-based journalism fiction and art in The Walrus magazine and at thewalrus.ca. The Walrus stories present a variety of perspectives on the most complex issues of our time focusing on six key…

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6
Calgary International Fringe Festival Society

The Calgary Fringe strives to support all artists of any discipline by offering opportunities that offer a hand up and not a hand out. We strive to offer Calgarians an opportunity to built community through the theatrical and performing…

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7
Calgary International Film Festival Society

The calgary international film festival (ciff) is a 12 day showcase of up to 200 multi-genre films from canada and over 40 countries. the festival hosts gala events award ceremonies and special presentations. we host a large number of…

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8
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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9
Theatre Alberta Society

Theatre Alberta Society is a provincial arts service organization that proudly serves theatre artists enthusiasts students educators and community and professional theatre companies from across Alberta. We are dedicated to encouraging the…

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10
Inside Education Society of Alberta

Inside Education programs aim to create generations of engaged citizens who understand the important relationships betweenenvironment economy and society and who think critically and creatively about environmental topics and actively…

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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
Ghost River Theatre Society

Ghost River Theatre’s artistic mandate is to approach the creation of live performance in the spirit of collaboration – devising and presenting original Canadian theatre that is innovative accessible and highly theatrical. Our productions…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Calgary John Howard Society and the most unlike its peers is Wolodymyr George Danyliw Foundation. 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

129 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. 129 of the 133 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.

10
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
17
Early backer (in before they grew)
127/129
Grantees still filing
77/129
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 budgetThe University of Alberta - Parkland Foundation — C$1,755,000 over 3y, 52% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$1,315,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF LETHBRIDGE — C$1,300,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$1,100,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF GUELPH — C$1,000,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS — C$900,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS — C$535,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOAST MOUNTAIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 1y, 51% of budgetMount Royal University — C$237,500 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetFRED VICTOR CENTRE — C$225,100 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$215,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION — C$210,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetMARTIN FAMILY INITIATIVE — C$200,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetAFGHAN WOMEN'S ORGANIZATION REFUGEE AND IMMIGRANT SERVICES — C$200,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetFEDERATION OF ONTARIO NATURALISTS — C$200,000 over 1y, 4.1% of budgetFEAR IS NOT LOVE SOCIETY — C$175,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSLED ISLAND ARTS FELLOWSHIP — C$170,000 over 3y, 9.4% of budgetTHE CAROL SHIELDS PRIZE FOUNDATION — C$170,000 over 2y, 21% of budgetBOLIVIA KIDS — C$150,000 over 7y, 25% of budgetROSZA FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 1y, 9.3% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — C$140,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SAMARA CENTRE FOR DEMOCRACY — C$125,000 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetWECAN SOCIETY TRUST — C$125,000 over 2y, 27% of budgetCALGARY OPERA — C$120,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetDoctors Without Boarders Canada — C$115,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA BALLET FOUNDATION — C$110,000 over 2y, 79% of budgetCUPS CHILD DEVELOPMENT CENTRE — C$105,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE UNIVERSITY — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEAF (WOMEN'S LEGAL EDUCATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetONTARIO PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — C$100,000 over 2y, 16% of budgetLEARNING ENRICHMENT FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHORTICULTURE CENTRE OF THE PACIFIC — C$100,000 over 2y, 4.4% of budgetVERNA J KIRKNESS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 2y, 14% of budgetNATIVE CHILD AND FAMILY SERVICES OF TORONTO — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEDMONTON MENNONITE CENTRE FOR NEWCOMERS — C$90,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetArt Gallery of Greater Victoria — C$85,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetALBERTA THEATRE PROJECTS — C$80,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE IMMIGRANT EDUCATION SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCARYA SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROSEBUD FELLOWSHIP — C$75,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetNELLIE'S WOMEN'S HOSTELS INC. — C$75,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCATHERDRAL BLUFFS SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA — C$75,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetALBERTA BALLET COMPANY — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCARE CANADA — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLUMINOUS VOICES MUSIC SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetTHE ALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

Rozsa FoundationThe Calgary FoundationCarthy FoundationCalgary Shaw Charity …Nickle Family Foundat…The Edmonton Communit…Calgary Flames Founda…Cenovus Employee Foun…Harry and Martha Cohe…The Burns Memorial Fu…Kids Up Front Foundat…The Smith and Vanstok…
Rozsa FoundationAB19.9× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rozsa Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Calgary Flames Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · The Smith and Vanstokkom 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 133 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 832090211:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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