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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Ken and Roma Lett Foundation

The foundation issued 4 donations to registered charities in 2024 totalling $145 000.

C$145k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$70k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$75k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$70k
C$30,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$3k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AIR FORCE MUSEUM SOCIETY OF ALBERTAC$70,000
COMOX VALLRY AIR FORCE MUSEUMC$30,000
ST. JAMES THE APOSTLEC$25,000
ST. GEORGE THE MARTYRC$20,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.9M · 25 repeat orgsC$58k to everyone else

25 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
7

Total granted

C$1.9M
C$58k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+184%

Still filing today

100%
14%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • AF
    AIR FORCE MUSEUM SOCIETY OF ALBERTA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$510k · revenue +297% · 76% of their budget
  • CV
    COMOX VALLEY AIR FORCE MUSEUM
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$260k · revenue +92% · 58% of their budget
  • SG
    ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$135k · revenue +394% · 30% of their budget

Funded once

  • VW
    VICTORIA WOMEN'S HOUSE TRANSITION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$20k
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY AGAPE HOSPICE
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k
  • VW
    VICTORIA WOMEN'S TRANSITION HOUSE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k

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
Canadian Cancer Society - SociÉTÉ Canadienne Du Cancer

The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We raise funds to fuel the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer across Canada and for all…

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2
Als Society of Alberta

The als society of alberta is a charitable organization dedicated to making each day the best possible day for people living with and affected by als (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) across the province of alberta. we achieve our mission by…

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3
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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4
Alzheimer Society of Canada - Societe Alzheimer Du Canada

Assisting provincial Alzheimer Society (AS) organizations to provide information and educational materials to the public; Administering and funding the AS national peer-reviewed research grants and awards program; Creating public awareness…

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5
Alzheimer Society of Alberta and Northwest Territories

1. to assist families caregivers and professionals with state-of-the-art strategies for effective care giving. 2. provide information by mail public forums workshops and on the website. 3. provide support groups for those living with…

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6
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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7
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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8
The Alberta Lung Foundation
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9
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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10
Alberta Spine Foundation

The objective of the asf is to advance the delivery of spine care in alberta through innovative clinical care focused education and academic collaboration.

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11
Southern Alberta Myeloma Patient Society

(1) support to myeloma patients and care teams and provide information on available community resources (2) support local research initiatives in calgary and assist researchers through fund raising activities and donations (3) maintain…

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12
Government of the Province of Alberta

Alberta health services (ahs) is mandated by the government of alberta for the delivery and operation of the public health system in alberta. ahs is also responsible to: - promote and protect the health of the population and work towards…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Societe De L'arthrite Du Canada and the most unlike its peers is Foothills Academy Society. 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

26 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. 26 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
21/26
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 budgetAIR FORCE MUSEUM SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$510,000 over 8y, 76% of budgetCOMOX VALLEY AIR FORCE MUSEUM — C$260,000 over 8y, 58% of budgetST. JAMES THE APOSTLE — C$155,000 over 8y, 88% of budgetST. GEORGE THE MARTYR — C$135,000 over 8y, 30% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY AGAPE HSOPICE — C$54,000 over 6y, 8.9% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH TRUST (FRIENDS OF COLONEL BELCHER SOCIETY) — C$51,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY EMERGENCY WOMEN'S SHELTER — C$51,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetAIR CADET LEAGUE OF CANADA — C$42,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$41,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALS CANADA — C$41,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY — C$41,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION AB NWT NU — C$41,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA LUNG ASSOCIATION — C$41,000 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetARTHRITIS SOCIETY ALBERTA DIVISION — C$41,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION — C$41,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$41,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCNIB — C$41,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$41,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$39,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetMUSTARD SEED — C$37,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetFOOTHILLS ACADEMY SOCIETY — C$36,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetNO STONE LEFT ALONE — C$36,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetVICTORIA COOL AID SOCIETY — C$24,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED CHURCH — C$24,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCLOSER TO HOME — C$24,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Foundation - Deborah Zimmel Triple Negative Breast C — C$2,000 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.

  • Who funds AIR FORCE MUSEUM SOCIETY OF ALBERTA ↗
  • Who funds COMOX VALLEY AIR FORCE MUSEUM ↗
  • Who funds ST. JAMES THE APOSTLE ↗
  • Who funds ST. GEORGE THE MARTYR ↗
  • Who funds THE SALVATION ARMY AGAPE HSOPICE ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY HEALTH TRUST (FRIENDS OF COLONEL BELCHER SOCIETY) ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY EMERGENCY WOMEN'S SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds AIR CADET LEAGUE OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ALS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds UNITED WAY OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds HEART & STROKE FOUNDATION AB NWT NU ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA LUNG ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ARTHRITIS SOCIETY ALBERTA DIVISION ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN DIABETES ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CANCER RESEARCH SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds CNIB ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds MUSTARD SEED ↗
  • Who funds FOOTHILLS ACADEMY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds NO STONE LEFT ALONE ↗
  • Who funds VICTORIA COOL AID SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE MUSTARD SEED CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds CLOSER TO HOME ↗
  • Who funds Calgary Foundation - Deborah Zimmel Triple Negative Breast C ↗

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.

Atco Electric EpicUnited Way of the Alb…United Way of Calgary…Cenovus Employee Foun…Atco Gas Employees' C…Private Giving Founda…Strategic Charitable …Abundance CanadaThe Calgary FoundationAqueduct FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…BenefAction Foundation
Atco Electric EpicAB9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atco Electric Epic · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · United Way of Calgary and Area · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Private Giving Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Abundance Canada · The Calgary Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction 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 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 839011772:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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