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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The J.C. Anderson Family Foundation

The foundation has set-up funding programs and provides donations to qualified donees.

C$50k
Granted FY2023
2
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$14M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
EASTER SEALS ALBERTA SOCIETYC$25,000
THE CALGARY FOUNDATIONC$25,000
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.4M · 15 repeat orgsC$665k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 13 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

C$2.4M
C$665k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+26%
+55%

Still filing today

80%
41%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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
    5× · 2018–2023 · C$1.3M · revenue +143%
  • ST
    SHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2018–2021 · C$95k · revenue +40%
  • BC
    BRITISH COLUMBIA GUIDE DOG SERVICES
    5× · 2018–2022 · C$85k · revenue +126%

Funded once

  • TC
    THE CALGARY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$150k
  • AS
    ALBERTA SPORT CONNECTIONgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$133k · revenue ×97
  • CY
    CORNERSTONE YOTUH CENTREgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$75k · revenue +55% · 44% of their budget

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
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.

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2
Central Alberta Humane Society (for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals)

Operates a shelter for companion animals including: adoption surrender rescue rehabilitation pet therapy humane education emergency boarding low income spay/neuter pet food bank

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3
Animal Rescue Foundation (Arf) of Alberta

Rescue homeless lost stray or abandoned dogs and cats on request from rural areas and communities with limited resources in order to prevent and alleviate animal suffering and reduce pet overpopulation; provide dogs and cats with food…

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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.

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5
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…

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6
Alberta Pound and Rescue Centres

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

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7
Alberta Bulldog Rescue Society

We maintain a network of foster homes that cares for bulldogs on a short- or long-term basis until suitable adoptive households can be found. We provide all supplies as well as any required medical treatment and/or behavioral training for…

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8
Caws - Companion Animal Welfare Society

Guardian angel program - temporary care for pets when owners in need of qualified respite. referral by alberta health services provincial or local police social workers or other agencies required. all medical care food supplies transport…

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9
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…

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10
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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11
Alberta Homeward Hound Rescue Bureau

Rescue dogs from across Alberta and the NWT provide vetting care and adopt them to new loving forever homes.

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12
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.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Seniors Resource Society and the most unlike its peers is 489520 Alberta Ltd.. 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

20 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. 20 of the 32 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
16/20
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 CALGARY FOUNDATION — C$1,271,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetHOME FRONT CALGARY — C$217,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetEASTER SEALS ALBERTA SOCIETY — C$204,000 over 6y, 1.7% of budgetALBERTA SPORT CONNECTION — C$133,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE FOUNDATION — C$95,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA GUIDE DOG SERVICES — C$85,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE YOTUH CENTRE — C$75,000 over 1y, 44% of budgetCALGARY SENIORS' RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetCALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY — C$65,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetWILL FOR RIDING FOUNDATION — C$61,000 over 2y, 31% of budgetWELLSPRING CALGARY — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetFRESH START RECOVERY CENTRE — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetSHELTER BOX CANADA — C$33,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCALGARY JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$28,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD — C$27,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROUND RESCUE — C$10,000 over 1y, 10.0% of budgetDOGS WITH WINGS ASSISTANCE DOG SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetALBERTA ANIMAL RESCUE CREW SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

  • Who funds THE CALGARY FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HOME FRONT CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS ALBERTA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA SPORT CONNECTION ↗
  • Who funds SHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRITISH COLUMBIA GUIDE DOG SERVICES ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE YOTUH CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY SENIORS' RESOURCE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds WILL FOR RIDING FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds FRESH START RECOVERY CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds SHELTER BOX CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds INN FROM THE COLD ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ROUND RESCUE ↗
  • Who funds DOGS WITH WINGS ASSISTANCE DOG SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA ANIMAL RESCUE CREW SOCIETY ↗

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 FoundationAtco Gas Employees' C…Raymond James Canada …Atco Electric EpicCalgary Flames Founda…United Way of Calgary…United Way of the Alb…Carthy FoundationThe Edmonton Communit…Private Giving Founda…Kanovsky Family Found…
Cenovus Employee FoundationAB14.9× affinity11 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 · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Calgary Flames Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Carthy Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Private Giving Foundation · Kanovsky Family 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 32 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. 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 FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 857795835:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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