Skip to content
Canadian charitiesAlso receives grants — funding profile →

Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Hop Foundation

The Foundation donates to qualified donees to support community education and health initiatives environmental protection plus disaster and poverty relief.

C$2.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$975k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$2k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$154k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$1.9M
C$33,333
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$15M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Calgary Buddhist Meditation SocietyC$975,000
Calgary inter-Faith Food Bank SocietyC$600,000
Edmonton Gleaners AssociationC$300,000
Alberta Birds of Prey FoundationC$33,334
Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation SocietyC$33,333
Calgary Humane Society For Prevention of Cruelty to AnimalsC$33,333
Private Giving FoundationC$14,186
NorthernStar Mothers Milk Bank AssociationC$10,000
Calgary Search and Rescue AssociationC$10,000
Calgary Meals on WheelsC$10,000
Alberta Institute for Wildlife ConservationC$10,000
Prime Quadrant FoundationC$2,000
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.3M · 10 repeat orgsC$201k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +59% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
23

Total granted

C$9.3M
C$145k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+59%
+18%

Still filing today

90%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$56k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’24
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

  • CB
    Calgary Buddhist Meditation Society
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$3.2M · revenue +46% · 95% of their budget
  • CI
    Calgary inter-Faith Food Bank Society
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$2.4M · revenue +59%
  • EG
    Edmonton Gleaners Association
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.8M · revenue +100%

Funded once

  • DM
    Dr. Margaret Savage Crisis Centre Society
    one grant, 2019 · C$15k · revenue +10%
  • LS
    Land Stewardship Centre of Canada
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k · revenue -30%
  • BC
    BC Conservation Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +15%

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
Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue Foundation

Our primary program involves rescuing homeless abandoned freezing starving dogs and puppies and to a few amount cats and kittens in Alberta as well as Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Rescued animals are matched in our Foster Program a highly…

—
2
Help a Buddy Fund

We financially support registered charitable animal welfare groups in Alberta by offering monetary grants and joint fundraising efforts to those who have programs in place to support animals in need of long-term rehabilitation of a year or…

—
3
Alberta Pound and Rescue Centres

To return lost pets to their owners and give homeless animals a new forever home.

—
4
Calgary Animal Rescue Society

Rescue abused and abandoned animals provide verterinary care as needed and find loving homes for these animals. provide spay/neuter clinic in remote locations.

—
5
Meow Foundation for the Adoption of Abandoned Cats

We rescue and facilitate the adoption of stray and abandoned cats into new loving permanent forever homes. MEOW Foundation also offers a Spay Neuter Assistance Program subsidizing low income families needing to spay/neuter their cats Cat…

—
6
Fostering Hope Animal Rescue Foundation

To promote the welfare of animals for the benefit of the public by spaying or neutering feral or stray animals and rehabilitating them to be re-homed or returning them to their community and reducing the unwanted population (e.g. barn…

—
7
Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society

Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society supplies funding primarily to Qualified Donees that support spay and neuter assistance programs in Calgary and surrounding areas.

—
8
Canadian Cattle Foundation

1. facilitate and encourage stewardship practice and conservation that preserve and or enhance the environment biodiversity and wildlife habitat on working agricultural landscapes; 2.create and /or support education leadership development…

—
9
World Animal Protection Canada Protection Mondiale des Animaux Canada

World Animal Protection carries out programs to address the systems that cause cruelty and suffering to animals around the globe. We care for and provide sanctuary for captive wildlife that cannot be returned to the wild. We undertake…

—
10
Feral Cat Network Foundation of Alberta

Provide support communities through providing food veterinary care and shelter to colony cats from tnr programs; rehabilitate sick and injured cats and put up for adoption to homes or barn buddy program if cannot be released to tnr…

—
11
Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada/

Wildlife preservation canada exists to save animal species at risk from extinction in canada by performing hands-on action for species requiring direct intervention to recover. wpc build canada's conservation capacity by providing…

—
12
Alberta Helping Animals Society

Support successful and enduring human-animal bonds between companion animals and people with low income disabilities and unfortunate circumstances through providing advice advocacy and access to veterinary care and other services.

—

For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Animal Rescue Foundation (Arf) of Alberta and the most unlike its peers is The Micah Mission Inc.. 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

41 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/41
Grantees still filing
28/41
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 budgetCalgary Buddhist Meditation Society — C$3,225,000 over 8y, 95% of budgetCalgary inter-Faith Food Bank Society — C$2,400,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetEdmonton Gleaners Association — C$1,800,000 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetAlberta Birds of Prey Foundation — C$200,000 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetCalgary Humane Society For Prevention of Cruelty to Animals — C$199,998 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetCalgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society — C$199,998 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetThe Nature Conservancy of Canada — C$16,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDr. Margaret Savage Crisis Centre Society — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCalgary Women's Emergency Shelter — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPrivate Giving Foundation — C$14,186 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Search and Rescue Association — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.6% of budgetAlberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLand Stewardship Centre of Canada — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetBC Conservation Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFeline Rescue Foundation of Alberta — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetEdmonton and Area Land Trust — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetR.A.S.T.A (Rescue and Sanctuary For Threatened Animals) — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCalgary Meals on Wheels — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNorthernStar Mothers Milk Bank Association — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetThe Mustard Seed Foundation — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLakeland Humane Society — C$8,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetStr8 Up 10 000 Little Steps to Healing Inc. — C$7,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPawsitive Match Rescue Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetGlobal Youth EducationThe Global Youth Education Network Soc — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Bethany Care Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Micah Mission Inc. — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetAnimal Rescue Foundation of Alberta — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetAutism Dog Services Inc. — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetVancouver Island Providence Community Association — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWorld Wildlife Fund Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Jane Goodall Institute of Canada — C$4,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetLangley Care Foundation — C$3,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetGreen Calgary Association — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWest Interlake Watershed District — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetThe Push for Change Foundation — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPrime Quadrant Foundation — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCanadaHelp.org — C$750 over 2y, 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.

Cenovus Employee Foun…The Calgary FoundationNickle Family Foundat…Atco Electric EpicUnited Way of Calgary…Olympia Charitable Fo…Atco Gas Employees' C…Carthy FoundationHarry and Martha Cohe…The Eric S. Margolis …United Way of the Alb…Viewpoint Foundation
Cenovus Employee FoundationAB15.8× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cenovus Employee Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · United Way of Calgary and Area · Olympia Charitable Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Carthy Foundation · Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation · The Eric S. Margolis Family Foundation/La Fondation Familiale Eric S. Margolis · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Viewpoint 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 39 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 822328332:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

Play a game based on Hop’s filings →