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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Gwyn Morgan and Patricia Trottier Foundation

The foundation has been established to fund and carry on charitable activities and programs that are beneficial to the community as a whole.

C$3.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$703k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$110k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$640k
  • C$250k+6 grants · C$2.2M
C$50,000
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE MANNING FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRATIC EDUCATIONC$703,250
ARISTOLTLE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICYC$410,334
YOUTH SCIENCE CANADAC$300,000
TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICYC$300,000
COMOSUN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$257,000
THE CHAPEL & YORK CANADA FOUNDATIONC$250,000
SECOND STREETC$200,000
CANADIAN CONSTITUTION FOUNDATIONC$100,000
JUSTICE CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMSC$75,000
CANADIAN NORTHERN SOCIETYC$60,000
ST PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$55,000
INSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL STUDIESC$50,000
INSITUT ÉCONOMIQUE DE MONTRÉALC$50,000
FRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICYC$50,000
UNITED WAY CALGARY & AREAC$25,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Alberta
C$8.2M
British Columbia
C$4.8M
Ontario
C$2.3M
Saskatchewan
C$660k
Quebec
C$210k
Manitoba
C$195k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$50k
New Brunswick
C$21k
Nova Scotia
C$15k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$14M · 35 repeat orgsC$2.8M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +32% since the first grant, against +13% for the ones you funded once.

35 repeat relationships — 21 still active in FY2024, 14 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

35
37

Total granted

C$14M
C$2.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+32%
+13%

Still filing today

100%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$275k 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

  • CC
    CAMOSUN COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.8M · revenue +33%
  • TN
    TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$995k · revenue +399% · 33% of their budget
  • YS
    YOUTH SCIENCE CANADA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$970k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • TF
    THE FRASER INSTITUTEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$500k · revenue +41%
  • HF
    HOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$250k · revenue -30%
  • TW
    TOGETH WE STAND FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$250k · revenue +8%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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 University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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2
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. The university has approximately 40 061…

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3
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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4
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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5
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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6
Simon Fraser University

Sfu offers undergraduate and graduate degrees in the faculties of applied science arts and social services beedie school of business education environment health sciences sciences and communication arts and technology. the university…

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7
Yukon University

Facilitation and deliver of post-secondary education including northern research.

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8
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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9
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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10
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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11
Carleton University

Carleton University provides post-secondary education.

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Frontier Centre for Public Policy Inc and the most unlike its peers is Second Street Daycare Inc. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

73 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. 73 of the 74 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.

9
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
73/73
Grantees still filing
57/73
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 budgetTHE MANNING FOUNDATION FOR DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION — C$3,733,750 over 8y, 76% of budgetCAMOSUN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$1,771,000 over 8y, 8.1% of budgetTRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — C$995,000 over 6y, 33% of budgetYOUTH SCIENCE CANADA — C$970,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetCanadian Constitution Foundation — C$850,000 over 3y, 25% of budgetJUSTICE CENTRE FOR CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMS — C$705,000 over 5y, 7.8% of budgetARISTOLTLE FOUNDATION FOR PUBLIC POLICY — C$657,499 over 2y, 65% of budgetSECOND STREET — C$600,000 over 4y, 38% of budgetTHE FRASER INSTITUTE — C$500,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetST PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$465,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN NORTHERN SOCIETY — C$432,000 over 8y, 55% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$380,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA — C$375,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYOUNG LIFE OF CANADA — C$310,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetST. MICHAELS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL SOCIETY — C$305,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTHE CHAPEL & YORK CANADA FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 1y, 25% of budgetHOMES FOR HEROES FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetTOGETH WE STAND FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetCANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNITED WAY CALGARY & AREA — C$170,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetEdmonton Public Library Board — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINSITUT ÉCONOMIQUE DE MONTRÉAL — C$150,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetFRONTIER CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — C$150,000 over 3y, 5.6% of budgetUnited Way of Greater Vancouver — C$105,000 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetNATURE CONSERVANCY — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetENERGY PROBE RESEARCH FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetSECOND STREET — C$100,000 over 1y, 6.6% of budgetMary Winspear Foundation — C$100,000 over 1y, 92% of budgetINSTITUTE FOR LIBERAL STUDIES — C$75,000 over 2y, 12% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$72,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF NORTHER BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$70,000 over 8y, 7.3% of budgetCD HOWE INSTITUTE — C$60,604 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERISTY — C$60,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetVICTORIA FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEMORIAL UNIVERSITY — C$50,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK ASSOCIATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetTHE FORT MCMURRAY BOYS' AND GIRLS' CLUB — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetTHE CALGARY BETWEEN FRIENDS CLUB - FUN AND FELLOWSHIP FOR — C$50,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWOOD'S HOMES — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE UNITED WAY OF FORT MCMURRAY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHOMEFRONT SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$45,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetLEUKEMIA & LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWEST ISLAND COLLEGE — C$40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF MANITOBA — C$35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE / JEUNESSE J'ECOUTE — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA CALGARY — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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.

Hunter Family Foundat…United Way of Calgary…Pirie Foundation Non-…Private Giving Founda…The Calgary FoundationAqueduct FoundationThe John Dobson Found…Totem Charitable Foun…Atco Electric EpicViewpoint FoundationThe Hearn Family Foun…The Victoria Foundati…
Hunter Family FoundationAB16.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hunter Family Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Pirie Foundation Non-Profit Priv Asso · Private Giving Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The John Dobson Foundation · Totem Charitable Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Viewpoint Foundation · The Hearn Family Foundation · The Victoria 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 74 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 853519270:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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