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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Palmer Family Foundation

To make gifts to 'qualified donees' as that term is defined in the income tax act (canada) with all funds being used for charitable purposes.

C$1.8M
Granted FY2024still arriving
30
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$833k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 30 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–50k21 grants · C$575k
  • C$50k–250k6 grants · C$400k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$833k
C$30,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLENBOW MUSEUMC$833,333
YELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATIONC$100,000
CANADIAN RED CROSSC$75,000
WELLSPRING ALBERTAC$75,000
ALBERTA BALLET COMPANYC$50,000
NATRUE CONSERVANCY CANADAC$50,000
UNITED WAYC$50,000
BALLET BCC$40,000
DOUGLAS FOUNDATIONC$40,000
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$40,000
CONTEMPORARY CALGARYC$35,000
MACKENZIE ART GALLERY INCORPORATEDC$30,000
THE PEMBINA INSTITUTE FOR APPROPRIATEC$30,000
CLICK (CONTRIBUTING TO THE LIVES OF INNERC$30,000
EPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF CALGARYC$30,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Which regions your grants reach

Alberta
C$5.3M
British Columbia
C$1.2M
Ontario
C$741k
Quebec
C$329k
New Brunswick
C$92k
Prince Edward Island
C$52k
Nova Scotia
C$50k
Saskatchewan
C$30k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.4M · 43 repeat orgsC$505k to everyone else

43 repeat relationships — 23 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

43
17

Total granted

C$7.4M
C$395k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+67%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$110k 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

  • GM
    GLENBOW MUSEUM
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$1.7M · revenue +269%
  • UO
    University of Calgary
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$660k · revenue +19%
  • BB
    BALLET BC
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$515k · revenue +75%

Funded once

  • AB
    ALBERTA BALLETgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$50k · revenue +67% · 37% of their budget
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue +38%
  • IE
    INGLIS EDUCATION FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +106%

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
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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2
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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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 Eye Foundation

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

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6
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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7
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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8
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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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
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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11
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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12
Rozsa Foundation

Build capacity in arts organizations in alberta through grants; arts management training and awards; undertake arts-related research and advocacy.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Arts Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Anglican Parish of Christ Church. 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

63 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. 63 of the 65 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)
18
Early backer (in before they grew)
63/63
Grantees still filing
42/63
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 budgetGLENBOW MUSEUM — C$1,696,667 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$660,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$580,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetBALLET BC — C$515,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetYELLOWSTONE TO YUKON CONSERVATION INITIATIVE FOUNDATION — C$441,000 over 8y, 9.3% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$340,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWELLSPRING ALBERTA — C$265,000 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetDISCOVERY HOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION — C$260,000 over 5y, 3.7% of budgetUNION GOSPEL MISSION — C$185,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$175,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITY — C$155,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetST PAUL FOUNDATION — C$140,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PEMBINA INSTITUTE FOR APPROPRIATE — C$135,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetMISSION OLD BREWEY FOUNDATION — C$130,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCALGARY PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — C$125,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetDOUGLAS FOUNDATION — C$120,020 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCONTEMPORARY CALGARY ARTS SOCIETY — C$120,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetCONVENANT HOUSE VANCOUVER — C$110,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$105,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCENTENNIAL ACADEMY FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 4y, 8.7% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY — C$95,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY DROP-IN CENTRE — C$90,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetBACKPACK BUDDIES (COMMUNITY FIRST FOUNDATION) — C$90,000 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNATRUE CONSERVANCY CANADA — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA BALLET COMPANY — C$75,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetWILDLIFE CONSERVATION SOCIETY CANADA — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetENVIRONMENT LAW CENTRE — C$70,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetENVIRONMENT FUNDERS CANADA (EFC) — C$51,050 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetALBERTA BALLET — C$50,000 over 1y, 37% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF PRINCE EDWARD ISLAND — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Philharmonic Orchestra Foundation — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetINGLIS EDUCATION FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 7.2% of budgetMISTAKIS INSTITUTE — C$45,000 over 2y, 2.2% of budgetEPILEPSY ASSOCIATION OF CALGARY — C$45,000 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCALGARY EMERGENCY WOMEN'S SHELTER — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY ARTS FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 2y, 7.3% of budgetSHARP FOUNDATION — C$33,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetMACKENZIE ART GALLERY INCORPORATED — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCLICK (CONTRIBUTING TO THE LIVES OF INNER — C$30,000 over 1y, 7.9% of budgetCALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION — C$27,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TRANSITION ACCELERATOR — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetBANFF CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetDECIDEDLY JAZZ DANCEWORKS — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetELBOW PARK RESIDENT'S ASSOCIATION — C$23,242 over 2y, 7.9% of budgetALBERTA ECOTRUST FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCLEAN ECONOMY FUND — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.4% 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 FoundationCarthy FoundationThe Edmonton Communit…Cenovus Employee Foun…United Way of Calgary…Raymond James Canada …The Chawkers foundati…The Jeffrey and Maril…Jewish Community Foun…Calgary Shaw Charity …Viewpoint FoundationRozsa Foundation
The Calgary FoundationAB19× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Carthy Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Cenovus Employee Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Chawkers foundation · The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Rozsa 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 65 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 849755921:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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