Edmonton, AB · Charitable organization
The Governors of the University of Alberta
The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k17 grants · C$111k
- C$10k–50k40 grants · C$822k
- C$50k–250k8 grants · C$572k
- C$250k+3 grants · C$2.0M
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Graduate Students Association | C$970,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$777,000 |
| Wajax Limited | C$277,000 |
| Regents of the University of Minnesota | C$123,000 |
| Coanda Research & Development Corp | C$85,000 |
| Indspire | C$84,000 |
| Alberta Law Reform Institute | C$60,000 |
| Canada Homestay Network Society | C$59,000 |
| Sea to Sky Meeting Management Inc | C$56,000 |
| Maternal Infant Child & Youth | C$55,000 |
| JDC West Business Competition Inc | C$50,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$43,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$40,000 |
| Migrante Alberta Association | C$39,000 |
| OKAKI Health Intelligence Inc | C$38,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 16% of grant dollars (C$1.3M). The 84% that went abroad (C$6.8M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 84% of all-years giving (C$6.8M)
7 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +76% since the first grant, against +2% for the ones you funded once.
32 repeat relationships — 31 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 33 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 70% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.0M went to new ones.
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
- IIndspire4× · 2020–2024 · C$798k · revenue +76%
- ACAugustana Chaplaincy Council5× · 2017–2024 · C$132k · revenue +2% · 29% of their budget
- CFCampus Food Bank Society3× · 2018–2024 · C$14k · revenue +228%
Funded once
- IIndspireone grant, 2022 · C$296k
- TCTulsa Combustion LLCone grant, 2023 · C$88k
- KAKemet Advanced Manufacturing Ltdone grant, 2023 · C$73k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Awarded scholarships
Fund Student Scholarships and Awards Sponsor public lectures featuring University Speakers Financially support university programs to engage the broader community
Provide financial assistance to female students attending the university of alberta. see above
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…
Promote the advancement of education by the provision of scholarships bursaries or other financial assistance for students of merits and distinction at the university of alberta -to contribute funds to projects that will benefit students…
The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…
The foundation receives donations from annual giving programs and other campaigns. Funds are gifted to the University of Winnipeg for education purposes (scholarships/bursaries) and for capital and capademic enhancement purposes.
The NAIT Foundation raises funds to support the Northern Alberta Institute of Technology. Funds are used for: -scholarships and bursaries granted to NAIT students -operational costs capital equipment needs in support of NAIT's educational…
Supporting university of calgary books to build on fund providing books for indigenous students.
The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…
Scholarship for women attending university / community college scholarship for women in literacy programs
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of the Alberta Capital Region and the most unlike its peers is Johann Strauss Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
11 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. 11 of the 108 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadahelps Canadon
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.