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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The J.B. 'Bernie' Quinn Family Foundation

Charity actively provided benefits to the community during year by donating to various charities.

C$210k
Granted FY2022
10
Grants FY2022
4
Regions reached
C$105k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$429
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$105k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$105k
C$12,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WE CHARITYC$105,000
INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION OF CANADAC$21,000
YOUNG LIFE OF CANADAC$12,000
VICTORY FOUNDATIONC$12,000
THIRD SPACE LIFE CHARITY FOUNDATIONC$12,000
RED CROSSC$12,000
MUSTARD SEED SOCIETYC$12,000
LOVE NEW CANADIANSC$12,000
HOCKEY MINISTRIESC$12,000
WORLD VISIONC$429
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.4M · 27 repeat orgsC$191k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2022, 19 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
13

Total granted

C$1.4M
C$179k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+9%

Still filing today

100%
69%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
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

  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION OF CANADA
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$77k · revenue +29%
  • LN
    LOVE NEW CANADIANS
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$62k · revenue +148%
  • VF
    VICTORY FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$58k · revenue +70%

Funded once

  • WC
    WE CHARITY
    one grant, 2017 · C$88k · revenue -98%
  • CO
    City of Kelowna- Lived Experience
    one grant, 2018 · C$18k
  • AI
    ATHLETES IN ACTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$12k · revenue +32%

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
The Calgary Foundation

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…

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2
Calgary Homeless Foundation

Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness. Providing grants to qualified donees and other community organizations to assist individuals experiencing homelessness…

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3
Calgary Keys to Recovery Society

Calgary Keys to Recovery Society provides housing and case management services to at risk individuals upon their exit from addictions treatment.

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4
Street Soccer Canada

Ongoing programs provided include: 1) homeless world cup participation; 2) national homeless soccer tournament; and 3) work with shelter populations in vancouver calgary toronto and montreal using sport (soccer) as a social inclusion.…

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5
Calgary Alpha House Society

Calgary alpha house society provides safe and caring environments for individuals whose lives are affected by alcohol and other drug dependencies. our continuum of programs helps connect these individuals with multiple levels of support…

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6
Calgary Young Women's Christian Association

Yw calgary supports women and their families in meeting their immediate and most basic needs and works directly with them to create positive and long-lasting change in their lives. we believe that healthy women and healthy families lead to…

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7
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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8
Habitat for Humanity Canada/Habitat Pour L'humanitÉ Canada

Habitat for Humanity Canada' brings communities together to help families build strength stability and independence through affordable homeownership. In fulfilling this mission we provide resources training and ongoing support to help…

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9
United Way of Calgary and Area

United way of calgary and area is a 100% local charity that brings together donors corporations agencies and government to solve complex issues and improve lives. we strategically invest in local agencies and collaboratives to create…

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10
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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11
Calgary Drop-in & Rehab Centre Society

The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre provides access to a spectrum of care that supports adults at risk of homelessness to the most independent living possible - including various emergency shelter programs and services and affordable and…

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12
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mustard Seed Society and the most unlike its peers is Branch Out Neurological Foundation. 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

38 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. 38 of the 42 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/38
Grantees still filing
26/38
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetWE CHARITY — C$467,868 over 4y, 18% of budgetWE CHARITY — C$87,868 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION OF CANADA — C$77,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetYOUNG LIFE OF CANADA — C$66,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetLOVE NEW CANADIANS — C$62,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetVICTORY FOUNDATION — C$58,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCUPS — C$56,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$50,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetHOCKEY MINISTRIES — C$48,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE MISSION — C$45,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBRANCH OUT NEUROLOGICAL — C$45,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetPOWER TO CHANGE — C$40,000 over 4y, 22% of budgetCROHN'S AND COLITIS — C$38,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED — C$38,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTRUTH MATTERS MINISTRIES — C$36,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetTHIRD SPACE LIFE CHARITY FOUNDATION — C$36,000 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetCALGARY DREAM CENTRE — C$35,560 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetNEXT STEP MINISTRIES — C$28,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetKARIS SUPPORT SOCIETY — C$24,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetRED CROSS — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLUNG ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA — C$19,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY — C$19,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$18,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFOUNDRY KELOWNA - CMHC — C$18,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetADULT AND TEEN CHALLENGE — C$17,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetTHE S A FOUNDATION — C$14,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetATHLETES IN ACTION — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKELOWNA GOSPEL MISSION SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetINTERNATIONAL AVENUE ARTS AND CULTURE CENTRE — C$11,604 over 2y, 4.8% of budgetLUNG ASSOCIATION AB/NWT — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — C$8,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH TRUST — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTSIDE KING'S CHURCH — C$5,700 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Great Commission Foundation — C$3,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHockey Helps the Homeless — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION — C$429 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…Centre Street ChurchAtco Electric EpicSonrise FoundationNicola Wealth Private…The Merrifield Family…Falcon FoundationUnited Way Southern I…Frank J. Flaman Found…Christian Stewardship…Cenovus Employee Foun…
The Calgary FoundationAB13× affinity14 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 · Centre Street Church · Atco Electric Epic · Sonrise Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · The Merrifield Family Foundation · Falcon Foundation · United Way Southern Interior Bc · Frank J. Flaman Foundation · Christian Stewardship Services · Cenovus Employee 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 42 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 2022-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 841233901:2022-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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