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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Horne Family Charitable Foundation

Gifting to registered charities

C$39M
Granted FY2018
13
Grants FY2018
5
Regions reached
C$19M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2018 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$13k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$121k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$410k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$39M
C$26,012
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$168k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AQUEDUCT FOUNDATIONC$19,265,935
THE CALGARY FOUNDATIONC$19,235,935
HARVARD UNIVERSITYC$167,187
UNIVERSITY OF LONDONC$126,000
CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADAC$116,592
NEW YORK UNIVERSITYC$30,000
EQUINE CANADAC$26,012
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDONC$25,000
THE NEW SCHOOL UNIVERSITYC$20,085
PIH PARTNERS IN HEALTH CANADAC$10,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADAC$10,000
BARD COLLEGEC$6,612
ATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATIONC$6,500
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$20M · 5 repeat orgsC$22M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +184% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
21

Total granted

C$20M
C$2.2M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+184%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 50% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
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

  • TC
    THE CALGARY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$19M · revenue +184% · 27% of their budget
  • CA
    CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$559k · revenue ×11
  • DW
    DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$225k · revenue +47%

Funded once

  • HU
    HARVARD UNIVERSITY (Qualified Donee)
    one grant, 2017 · C$674k
  • QM
    QUEEN MARY UNIVERSITY OF LONDON (Qualified Donee)
    one grant, 2017 · C$219k
  • OB
    OUTWARD BOUND CANADA
    one grant, 2017 · C$215k · revenue +25%

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
World Wildlife Fund Canada Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Can Ada

World Wildlife Fund Canada is a national registered charity formed to collect manage and disburse funds through suitable bodies or individuals for the conservation of fauna flora forests landscape water soils and other natural resources in…

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2
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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3
Canadian Agri-Food Foundation
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4
Canadian Rhodes Scholars Foundation

The foundation awards the oxford-canada scholarship which offers graduates of oxford university an opportunity to further their studies at a canadian university of their choise. one or two oxford-canada scholarships are awarded annually.…

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5
World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation-Fondation Du Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Canada

The Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable foundation and is the legal body responsible for administering assets donated to be held in trust and other capital funds designated by the Board of Directors. Funds are provided to World…

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6
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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7
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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8
World Fisheries Trust

World fisheries trust created in 1995 is a canadian non-profit organization dedicated to the equitable and sustainable use and conservation of aquatic biodiversity. it acts locally and globally. the organization is not an activist group…

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9
Academics without Borders / Universitaires sans frontières

Academics without border mission is to help people in the developing world realize their dreams through higher education because education is the key to a flourishing society and a sustainable world. academics without borders' projects are…

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10
Greenpeace Canada Education Fund

* to conduct research on climate change environmental protection ecological conservation and preservation environmental science and renewable energy; *to publicize conducted research to the general public to increase understanding of the…

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11
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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12
Canadian Association of University Teachers Foundation Fond ation de l'association Canadienne des professeures et professeurs d'université
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Charities Aid Foundation Canada and the most unlike its peers is Branksome Hall. 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

19 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. 19 of the 34 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
18/19
Grantees still filing
16/19
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 budgetAQUEDUCT FOUNDATION — C$19,265,935 over 1y, 17% of budgetTHE CALGARY FOUNDATION — C$19,265,935 over 2y, 27% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA — C$558,592 over 2y, 17% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA — C$225,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOUTWARD BOUND CANADA — C$214,628 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetPEN CANADA THE CANADIAN CENTRE OF INTERNATIONAL PEN — C$143,000 over 1y, 34% of budgetCANADIAN CROSSROAD INTERNATIONAL — C$125,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetETHIOPIAD — C$90,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMCGILL UNIVERISTY — C$87,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetATLANTIC SALMON FEDERATION — C$32,650 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBRANKSOME HALL — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPIH PARTNERS IN HEALTH CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetLAKEFIELD COLLEGE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS OF DULWICH PICTURE GALLERY — C$20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetPLACE2GIVE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCANADIAN SEA TURTLE NETWORK INC. — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FoundationToronto FoundationAqueduct FoundationGiftpact Foundation I…Conam Charitable Foun…Raymond James Canada …Ottawa Community Foun…United Way of Calgary…Wcpd FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Link Charity Canada I…Canada Gives
The Calgary FoundationAB11.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Giftpact Foundation Inc. · Conam Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · United Way of Calgary and Area · Wcpd Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc · Canada Gives

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 34 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 2018-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2018. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2020) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 810197749:2018-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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