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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Hearn Family Foundation

The Hearn Family Foundation donates to qualified donees on an annual basis

C$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 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–50k4 grants · C$85k
  • C$50k–250k15 grants · C$1.8M
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$300k
C$100,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$2.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Justice CentreC$300,000
The Democracy FundC$200,000
True North CentreC$200,000
Centre Street ChurchC$200,000
Prison Fellowship of CanadaC$200,000
The Fraser InstituteC$200,000
Tydale FoundationC$100,000
Jews for JesusC$100,000
Canadian BadlandsC$100,000
Canadian Physicians for LifeC$100,000
CAWSTC$100,000
Power to ChangeC$75,000
Great Commission Fnd'nC$50,000
Wycliff Bible TranslatorsC$50,000
Canadian Bible SocietyC$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.

66%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4.6M · 23 repeat orgsC$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

23 repeat relationships — 11 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

23
18

Total granted

C$4.6M
C$1.5M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 60% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$860k 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

  • VO
    VICTORY OUTREACH FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$945k · revenue +70%
  • SF
    Silvera for Seniors
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$600k · revenue +54%
  • JC
    Justice Centre
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$525k · revenue +365%

Funded once

  • UO
    University of Regina
    one grant, 2019 · C$500k · revenue +22%
  • BF
    BRIDGEWORKS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$250k · revenue +160%
  • VO
    Victory Outreach Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$200k

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.

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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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2
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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3
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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4
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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5
C.D. Howe Institute

The c.d. howe institute is a registered charity and an independent not-for-profit research institute whose mission is to raise living standards by fostering economically sound public policies. widely considered to be canada's most…

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6
St Mary's University

St. Mary’s University is an independent Catholic University that provides innovative teaching and research and offers accredited degrees in Liberal Arts Sciences and Education. Located on a historic site in Calgary Alberta StMU inspires…

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7
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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8
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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9
Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives / Centre Canadien De Politiques Alternatives

1. Social scientific research about economic social and environmental public policy issues of relevance to Canadian society. 2. Analysis of and commentary about public policy decisions and proposals. 3. Educational activities including…

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10
Canadian Freedom Institute

Canadian freedom institute is committed to improving public knowledge in the principles of free market economies

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11
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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12
Calgary Counselling Centre

1) Individual couples family and group counselling services to children youth and adults in distress. 2) Provide preventative counselling services for a wide range of personal needs. 3) We educate university students in counselling to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Young Life of Canada Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Silvera for Seniors. 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

48 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. 48 of the 51 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)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
48/48
Grantees still filing
28/48
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 budgetVICTORY OUTREACH FOUNDATION — C$945,000 over 5y, 19% of budgetSilvera for Seniors — C$600,000 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetCentre Street Church — C$525,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetJustice Centre — C$525,000 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetUniversity of Regina — C$500,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPrison Fellowship of Canada — C$280,000 over 5y, 13% of budgetBRIDGEWORKS FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetThe Fraser Institute — C$240,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetThe Democracy Fund — C$200,000 over 1y, 11% of budgetTrue North Centre — C$200,000 over 1y, 8.0% of budgetFresh Start Recovery Centre — C$200,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetPower to Change — C$170,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCAWST — C$150,000 over 5y, 0.9% of budgetEvangelical Fellowship of Canada — C$125,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetThe Manning Foundation — C$120,000 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetCanadian Badlands — C$115,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetCanadian Bible Society — C$105,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetFocus on the Family — C$105,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$104,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTyndale University College and Seminary — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTydale Foundation — C$100,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetJews for Jesus — C$100,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetCanadian Physicians for Life — C$100,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetNature Conservancy Canada — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMcGIll University — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLet's Talk Science — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWycliff Bible Translators — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN GLOBAL AFFAIRS INSTITUTE — C$50,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetGreat Commission Fnd'n — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Dream Centre — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSonshine Community Services — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYoung LIfe of Canada — C$35,000 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetCalgary Homeless Fdn'n — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAristotle Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetHART — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetNext Step Ministries — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetNorthmount School for Boys — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRock Solid Refuge — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetCalgary Pregnancy Care Centre — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetSecond Street — C$12,500 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFairview Baptist Church — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetCornerstone Christian Academy — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRegina Christina School — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetL'Arche Association of Lethbridge — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCalvin Christian School — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthmount Babtist Church — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetAARC — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCollege of Notre Dame — C$5,000 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 FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Atco Electric EpicPrivate Giving Founda…Hunter Family Foundat…Canadian National Chr…The Gwyn Morgan and P…The Jeffrey and Maril…Cenovus Employee Foun…Calgary Inter-Faith F…Viewpoint FoundationAqueduct Foundation
The Calgary FoundationAB14× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Electric Epic · Private Giving Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Canadian National Christian Foundation · The Gwyn Morgan and Patricia Trottier Foundation · The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Viewpoint Foundation · Aqueduct 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 51 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 830311429:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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