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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation

To provide funds for charitable purposes to qualified donees

C$514k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$103k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$64k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$148k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$303k
C$5,300
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$102,500
GLENBOW REIMAGINEDC$75,000
RENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOUNDATIONC$75,000
CAWSTC$50,000
NATIONAL MUSIC CENTREC$25,000
UNITED WAY OF CALGARY AN AREAC$25,000
BANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITYC$20,000
ART GALLERY OF ALBERTAC$20,000
TRUE PATRIOT LOVE FOUNDATIONC$20,000
CALGARY FLAMES FOUNDATIONC$15,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$12,500
YOUTH CENTRE OF CALGARYC$10,000
HONENS PIANO FESTIVALC$5,300
STRATHCONA-TWEEDSMUIR SCHOOL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
SAFE HAVEN 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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$6.3M · 33 repeat orgsC$490k to everyone else

33 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 16 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

33
44

Total granted

C$6.3M
C$298k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+20%

Still filing today

91%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$192k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’24
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

  • MI
    McCaig Institute Foundation
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$5.3M · revenue +27%
  • JA
    Junior Achievement of Southern Alberta
    3× · 2017–2021 · C$70k · revenue +14%
  • AG
    ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$30k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    one grant, 2022 · C$134k · revenue +2%
  • PT
    POWER TO GIVE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$22k · revenue +13%
  • OC
    Outdoor Council of Canada Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$15k · revenue -88% · 49% 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.

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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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2
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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3
Calgary Arts Academy Foundation

In support of the calgary arts academy society to advance arts immersion in education so support capital endeavors for the society.

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4
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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5
Calgary Public Library Foundation

The Calgary Public Library Foundation's sole purpose is to raise funds for the Calgary Public Library to enhance programs and services provided to Calgarians.

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6
Calgary Eye Foundation

Foundation supports calgary's ophthalmology program through enhanced education research and program development.

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7
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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8
Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation

The alberta children's hospital foundation raises funds for excellence in child health research and family centred care. funding is provided to alberta health services and university of calgary for advanced pediatric research specialized…

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9
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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10
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment…

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11
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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12
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Health Foundation 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

80 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. 80 of the 85 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
77/80
Grantees still filing
51/80
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 budgetMcCaig Institute Foundation — C$5,263,534 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetCAWST — C$258,200 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$133,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStrathcona-Tweedsmuir School Foundation — C$125,500 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY AN AREA — C$105,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITY — C$75,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGLENBOW REIMAGINED — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE — C$75,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southern Alberta — C$70,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBANFF CENTRE — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetART GALLERY OF ALBERTA — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetNATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE — C$27,800 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetYOUTH CENTRE OF CALGARY — C$22,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPOWER TO GIVE FOUNDATION — C$22,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetPure North S'Energy Foundation — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE PATRIOT LOVE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY FLAMES FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWELLSPRING CALGARY — C$17,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetSAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION — C$15,500 over 5y, 0.6% of budgetOutdoor Council of Canada Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 49% of budgetFIRST ALLIANCE CHURCH — C$13,560 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$11,000 over 2y, 5.6% of budgetThe Enbridge? Ride to Conquer Cancer — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHIGHBANKS SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetREVV52 — C$10,000 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetMAKEWAY CHARITABLE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Champions Society — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.8% of budgetCalgary Stampede Foundation — C$9,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY (MCCAIG INSTITUTE) — C$8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY SENIORS' RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$8,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLIONHEART FOUNDATION — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTheatre Calgary — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCNIB — C$5,250 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetResolve Campaign — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEFTOVERS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetColumbia Valley Greenways Trail Alliance — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetAlberta WaterPortal Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetThe Children's Wish Foundation of Canada — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMcGill University — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARC Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAF — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN GLOBAL AFFAIRS INSTITUTE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ALVIN AND MONA LIBIN FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBOLIVIA KIDS — C$4,500 over 3y, 1.0% 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 FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…Viewpoint FoundationCarthy FoundationHunter Family Foundat…Place2Give FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…The Alvin and Mona Li…Cenovus Employee Foun…Kanovsky Family Found…Jewish Community Foun…Norrep Foundation
The Calgary FoundationAB22.7× affinity46 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Place2Give Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Alvin and Mona Libin Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Kanovsky Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · Norrep 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 85 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 819408824:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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