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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Lecky Foundation

Periodic meetings of the board of directors are held in order to discuss portfolio performance major expenses changes to operations and allocation of outgoing donations.

C$844k
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k31 grants · C$784k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$25,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATIONC$50,000
BC CANCER FOUNDATIONC$45,000
BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$40,000
THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$40,000
ST PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INCC$40,000
ALBERTA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$40,000
LOVE FOR LEWISTON FOUNDATIONC$35,000
THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATIONC$35,000
ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF BCC$30,000
YOUNG WOMAN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONC$30,000
MISSING CHILDREN SOCIETY OF CANADAC$30,000
MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$30,000
HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$30,000
DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARYC$30,000
CYCLING WITHOUT AGE SOCIETYC$30,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 48% of grant dollars (C$1.9M). The 52% that went abroad (C$2.1M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 52% of all-years giving (C$2.1M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.4M · 65 repeat orgsC$625k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +9% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

65 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 38 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

65
42

Total granted

C$3.4M
C$500k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+4%

Still filing today

42%
5%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$125k 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

  • BC
    BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$80k · revenue +17%
  • HA
    HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$70k · revenue +19%
  • MC
    MISSING CHILDREN SOCIETY OF CANADA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$60k · revenue +28%

Funded once

  • SL
    SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k
  • MU
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY (LECKY FAMILY MGMT BURSARY)
    one grant, 2022 · C$24k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
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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2
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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3
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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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
Lung Foundation of British Columbia

The lung foundation of bc provides funding to support research and studies of prevention and control of lung and related diseases.

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6
Pacific Public Health Foundation

The pacific public health foundation works in collaboration with the bc centre for disease control (bccdc) and more broadly the health sector to support public health in bc by funding and facilitating evidence-based work that has an…

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7
Alberta Cancer Foundation

The alberta cancer foundation provides funds for cancer research the prevention detection education and diagnosis of cancer and for the treatment and care of cancer patients within alberta.

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8
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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9
Vgh & Ubc Hospital Foundation

To solicit encourage and provide a medium for gifts donations bequests endowments and other acquisitions of real and personal property to promote research patient care and fund programs equipment and facilities at Vancouver General…

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10
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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11
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Ssubi Foundation. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

36 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. 36 of the 114 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
36/36
Grantees still filing
19/36
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 budgetALBERTA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$90,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC — C$90,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$85,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLOVE FOR LEWISTON FOUNDATION — C$70,000 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$70,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION — C$65,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMISSING CHILDREN SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$60,000 over 2y, 8.0% of budgetYOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF BC — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION — C$56,750 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetSHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL — C$48,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$45,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetACTION DIGNITY SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY DROP-IN & REHAB CENTRE SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKW'UMUT LELUM FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetDIAMOND BLACKFAN ANEMIA CANADA — C$35,000 over 2y, 9.2% of budgetCYCLING WITHOUT AGE SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetBOARD OF GOVERNORS OF THE BANFF CENTRE — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAERO SPACE MUSEUM ASSOCIATION OF CALGARY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetRENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetTHE KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANCOUVER SYMPHONY SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHIGHBANKS INDEPENDENT LIVING FOR PARENTING YOUTH SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMMA MATERNITY HOUSE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTHE SSUBI FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ALBERTA SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTH SIMCOE MUSKOKA HOSPICE PALLIATIVE CARE NETWORK — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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 ALBERTA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds ST PAUL'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION INC ↗
  • Who funds BC CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds BRITISH COLUMBIA'S CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds LOVE FOR LEWISTON FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds THE VANCOUVER ART GALLERY ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MISSING CHILDREN SOCIETY OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF BC ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MAKE-A-WISH FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds THE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds VANCOUVER CHINATOWN FOUNDATION FOR COMMUNITY REVITALIZATION ↗
  • Who funds SHAWNIGAN LAKE SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL INSTITUTION FOR THE ADVANCEMENT OF LEARNING MCGILL ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds ACTION DIGNITY SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds THE UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA ↗

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 FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Lily Street FoundationCanada GivesBenefAction FoundationAtco Electric EpicDiamond FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…The Connor Clark & L…Raymond James Canada …Vancity Community Fou…Nicola Wealth Private…
The Calgary FoundationAB11× affinity11 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Lily Street Foundation · Canada Gives · BenefAction Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Diamond Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · The Connor Clark & Lunn Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Vancity Community Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving 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 114 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 2024-11-30, 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 863044392:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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