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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Jacobson Family Foundation

Responsibility for the foundation was transferred to the jacobson family in december 2009 and funding was provided to the foundation in late december 2009.

C$294k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$105k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$4k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$85k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$205k
C$35,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$5.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
WORLDSERVE MINISTRIES INC.C$105,000
TRINITY WESTERN UNIVERSITYC$50,000
PRAIRIE BIBLE INSTITUTEC$50,000
FIRST ALLIANCE CHURCHC$35,000
THE CARDUS INSTITUTEC$25,000
TEEN CHALLENGE CANADA INC.C$25,000
SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATIONC$3,500
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.9M · 13 repeat orgsC$88k to everyone else

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
11

Total granted

C$2.9M
C$85k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+35%

Still filing today

85%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$4k 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

  • TW
    Trinity Western University
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$2.0M · revenue +45%
  • WM
    WORLDSERVE MINISTRIES INC.
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$352k · revenue +0%
  • PB
    PRAIRIE BIBLE INSTITUTE
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$159k · revenue +19%

Funded once

  • WV
    WORLD VISION CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue -7%
  • TC
    The Colin B Glassco Charitable Foundation For Children
    one grant, 2018 · C$14k · revenue +9%
  • HA
    HUMANITARIAN AID RESPONSE TEAM SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$7k · revenue -34%

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
Global Scholars Canada

The mission of global scholars canada is to identify develop send equip and support missional christian academics for work primarily in open enrollment post secondary institutions around the world with the objective to inspire and…

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2
Tyndale University

Tyndale University is dedicated to the pursuit of truth to excellence in teaching learning and research for the enriching of mind heart and character to serve the church and the world for the glory of God. Ongoing programs: 1) To provide a…

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3
Harvest Endowment Foundation

The foundation actively promotes charitable giving and planned giving through advertising presentations and personal contacts. selected educational organizations received endowment gift in support of their programs.

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4
Global Awakening International

Advancing and teaching the religious tenets doctrines and observances and culture associated with the Christian faith. - Supporting and maintaining missions and missionaries in order to propagate the Christian faith.

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5
Breakthrough Ministries International

1. Held Christian conferences to educate and raise awareness of children at risk and to raise funds for aid programs.

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6
Global Missions Incorporated

Global missions incorporated is an organization whose mission is the promotion of the gospel and the relief of poverty.

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7
Hageman Family Foundation

Grants to support international mission and relief

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8
Sportaid International

The following projects were carried out to present the gospel and teach the christian way of life in canada and around the world: a)train leaders and volunteers in humanitarian aid poverty training and religious education b) provide…

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9
The Global Schoolhouse Initiative

We give educational equipment and programs to students in developing nations. We develop and provide education curriculum. We deliver educational equipment and programs and train local organizations to provide education to students.…

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10
Multiply Network

The organization operates global Christian mission programs by training and sending missionaries and church planting teams to all parts of the world. MULTIPLY Network builds the capacity of national leaders to contribute in the same ways.…

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11
Athletes for Africa Aid Program

We relieve poverty in uganda and malawi by: a) providing programs for youth in need that promote health and well being including nutrition b) providing scholarships and support for education to youth in need c) providing leadership…

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12
Gcc Foundation

1. engaging and supporting missionaries to establish plant lead and minister churches 2. providing scholarships bursaries awards and other forms of financial assistance to christian missionaries

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Great Commission Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Temple B'nai Tikvah. 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

25 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/25
Grantees still filing
19/25
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 budgetTrinity Western University — C$1,980,225 over 7y, 1.1% of budgetWORLDSERVE MINISTRIES INC. — C$351,959 over 8y, 2.1% of budgetFIRST ALLIANCE CHURCH — C$238,600 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetPRAIRIE BIBLE INSTITUTE — C$158,620 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE CANADA INC. — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARDUS INSTITUTE — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetWORLD VISION CANADA — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPARTAN FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetThe Colin B Glassco Charitable Foundation For Children — C$13,600 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetSIM CANADA — C$13,100 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetPOWER TO CHANGE MINISTRIES — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANITARIAN AID RESPONSE TEAM SOCIETY (HART) — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTrue North Water Charity — C$6,600 over 3y, 61% of budgetMEALSHARE AID FOUNDATION — C$6,100 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE GREAT COMMISSION FOUNDATION — C$5,700 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Governors of The University of Calgary — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Paz Group Society — C$3,750 over 1y, 11% of budgetLIONHEART FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGCA EDUCATIONAL SOCIETY — C$1,550 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBlue Sea Philanthropy Inc. — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTEMPLE B'NAI TIVKAH — C$700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSTRAIGHT TALK MINISTRIES ASSOCIATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD SOCIETY — C$350 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Cancer Foundation — C$350 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.

Givewise Foundation C…United Way of Calgary…Abundance CanadaCentre Street ChurchThe Calgary FoundationBenefAction FoundationCanadian National Chr…Charitable Gift Funds…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Strategic Charitable …Canadian Online Givin…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…
Givewise Foundation CanadaBC9.7× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Givewise Foundation Canada · United Way of Calgary and Area · Abundance Canada · Centre Street Church · The Calgary Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Canadian National Christian Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada

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 25 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 821104817:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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