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Vancouver, BC · Private foundation

The Jaffer Foundation

Charitable donations to the following: institute for rural education and development

C$223k
Granted FY2023
5
Grants FY2023
2
Regions reached
C$158k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$15k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$208k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INSTITUTE FOR RUAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENTC$158,006
NORTHWEST (BOWNESS) JKC$50,000
CANADA HELPSC$5,000
THE CALGARY FOUNDATIONC$5,000
ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATIONC$5,000
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 4 repeat orgsC$365k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +68% since the first grant, against +42% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
16

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$305k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+68%
+42%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$60k 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

  • IF
    INSTITUTE FOR RURAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$990k · revenue +68% · 76% of their budget
  • TS
    THE SPARK OF HOPE FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$27k · revenue +49%
  • TC
    THE CALGARY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2023 · C$7k · revenue +213%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    one grant, 2022 · C$250k · revenue +14%
  • AK
    AGA KHAN FOUNDATION CANADA
    one grant, 2019 · C$10k
  • SP
    SHUKHAR PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +106%

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 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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2
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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3
Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration Foundation

Two Worlds Cancer Collaboration is harnessing Canada’s cancer knowledge and leadership to assist local health care professionals in resource-constrained countries in palliative care end-of-life care and cancer control strategies and…

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4
All One Sky Foundation

All One Sky Foundation takes innovative action on climate change through education and research programs. It focusses on vulnerable populations at the crossroads of climate environment and energy. Key areas of focus are resilience to…

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5
Calgary Learns Association

The Alberta Government funds the Provincial Community Adult Learning Program (CALP). It is the role of individual CALPs across the province to ensure the delivery of part-time non-formal literacy and foundational learning opportunities to…

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6
Calgary Arts Foundation

Calgary arts foundation was created to generate financial support for the calgary arts sector. the foundation is focused on the arts creative industries and cultural sector to strengthen existing programs that support organizations artists…

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7
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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8
Cascade Institute Research Society

Using advanced methods to map and model complex global systems we analyze interactions between systemic risks to anticipate future crises and identify opportunities for high-leverage interventions in social systems. By acting as a network…

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9
Trec Dental Foundation

Aga khan foundation canada canadian cancer society canada helps institute for rural education and development made by momma calgary new heights school & learning services

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10
Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation

Charitable status was received on April 1 2018 and CAHF has been in a set up phase since that time. In this current fiscal year there has been activity related to preparing to deliver charitable activities which can be described as…

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11
Kids With Cancer Society of Northern Alberta

The Kids with Cancer Society offers programming to assist families in the following areas: Support - Provides the necessary tools to help families cope for the demands of the treatment and minimize family disruption and related stress.…

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12
Beam Foundation

BEAM Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of kids & youth in Calgary Alberta. Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable wellness programs to children and youth who are…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Niitoiyis Family Support Society and the most unlike its peers is Northwest (Bowness) Jk. 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

21 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. 21 of the 23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/21
Grantees still filing
18/21
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 budgetINSTITUTE FOR RURAL EDUCATION AND DEVELOPMENT — C$989,715 over 6y, 76% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$250,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAga Khan Foundation Canada — C$96,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHWEST (BOWNESS) JK — C$50,000 over 1y, 10% of budgetTHE SPARK OF HOPE FOUNDATION — C$27,000 over 5y, 2.5% of budgetSHUKHAR PHILANTHROPIC FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.7% of budgetTHE CALGARY FOUNDATION — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ALBERTA MYELOMA PATIENT SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetDASHMESH CULTURE CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetKIDS CANCER CARE — C$4,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMADE BY MOMMA — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCONNECTIONS COUNSELLING AND CONSULTING FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNORTH SHORE RESTORATIVE JUSTICE SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetWESTERN GOLD THEATRE SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetAWO TAAN HEALING LODGE SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTARDALE WOMEN'S GROUP — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetALBERTA ANIMAL RESCUE CREW SOCIETY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUBS OF CALGARY — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDENTISTRY FOR ALL — C$500 over 1y, 0.7% 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.

United Way of Calgary…The Calgary FoundationAtco Electric EpicBenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Vancouver FoundationStrategic Charitable …Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…
United Way of Calgary and AreaAB9× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Vancouver Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 23 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 832875645:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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