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Cochrane, AB · Charitable organization

The Franciscans - Bursar

Provide liturgical services provide counseling aa program retreats for men and women support programs for school aged children

C$319
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$104
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$60
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$3.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
COLDEST NIGHTC$104
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGIONC$80
CHALICE CANADAC$60
CATHOLIC MISSION IN CANADAC$50
DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATIONC$25
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.

39%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6k · 5 repeat orgsC$9k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
20

Total granted

C$6k
C$8k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 34% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$209 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

  • SM
    ST. MARY'S PARISH
    5× · 2017–2023 · C$4k · revenue +228%
  • CC
    CHALICE CANADA
    2× · 2019–2024 · C$675 · revenue +25%
  • C
    CNEWA
    4× · 2020–2023 · C$615 · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • TO
    The Order of St. Lazarus Calgary Commandery
    one grant, 2018 · C$2k · revenue +25%
  • DA
    Development and Peace
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue -54%
  • LC
    L'ARCHE CALGARY
    one grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue +23%

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 Homeless Foundation

Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness. Providing grants to qualified donees and other community organizations to assist individuals experiencing homelessness…

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2
Catholic Charities Society

Promotes sponsors social services programs to improve the quality of life for individuals and families throughout central alberta; aquisition of properties to accommodate physically and/or mentally challenged adults or children.

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3
Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation

Charitable status was received on April 1 2018 and CAHF has been in a set up phase since that time. In this current fiscal year there has been activity related to preparing to deliver charitable activities which can be described as…

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4
Calgary Alpha House Society

Calgary alpha house society provides safe and caring environments for individuals whose lives are affected by alcohol and other drug dependencies. our continuum of programs helps connect these individuals with multiple levels of support…

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5
Calgary Health Foundation

Provide support for medical services long term care medical research and education by granting to alberta health services - calgary zone university of calgary medical school and other registered charities providing support of health care…

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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 Chinese Catholic Mission

The advancement of the roman catholic religion and the advancement of the charitabel work through social religious counseling and poverty relief programs.

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8
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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9
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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10
The Catholic Archdiocese of Edmonton

Teaching the catholic faith: evangelization; advancement of catholic religion; provide pastoral care and support; providing ministry support; provide pastoral services; direct the affairs of the archdiocese

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11
Spiritus Vitae Catholic Health Sponsor

Sponsorship of Catholic health and hospitals in the province of Alberta. Provision of mission values and ethics consultation support and development of Catholic hospitals and health organizations. Education and engagement of employees of…

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12
The Mustard Seed Society

The mustard seed is a christian charitable organization that is servicing vulnerable citizens in alberta and british columbia. in calgary the charity offers an expansive range of innovative programs and services including education and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rc Diocese of Calgary 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

25 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. 25 of the 28 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
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 budgetST. MARY'S PARISH — C$3,690 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetThe Order of St. Lazarus Calgary Commandery — C$1,733 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDevelopment and Peace — C$1,100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetL'ARCHE CALGARY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMagdalene House Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCHALICE CANADA — C$675 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCNEWA — C$615 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCochrane Food Bank — C$500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSt. Vincent dePaul Society — C$400 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetBIG HILL HAVEN — C$400 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCochrane Women Emergency Shelter — C$375 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Mary's University — C$302 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Alberta — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOCHRANE PREGNANCY CARE CENTRE — C$130 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCATHOLIC MISSION IN CANADA — C$105 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOLDEST NIGHT — C$104 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetShaw Charity Classic — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN LEGION — C$80 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HE — C$51 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetABUNDANCE CANADA — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCatholic Christian Outreach Canada — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKing's Fold Retreat — C$40 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDMONTON PROLIFE — C$30 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$25 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 FoundationCentre Street ChurchAtco Electric EpicThe Alberta Knights o…United Way of Calgary…Canadian National Chr…BenefAction FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Abundance CanadaAqueduct FoundationCHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…
The Calgary FoundationAB8.2× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Centre Street Church · Atco Electric Epic · The Alberta Knights of Columbus Charitable Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Canadian National Christian Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Abundance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto

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 28 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 charitable organization under support of religion.

Source object 893003376:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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