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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Philip and Harriet Libin Family Foundation

Foundation established to maintain a trust fund and to use such fund and the net income therefrom for the purpose of receiving and maintaining a fund or funds to be applied for the benefit of other charities.

C$712k
Granted FY2024still arriving
16
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$600k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 16 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$15k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$97k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$600k
C$1,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$4.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATIONC$600,000
UNITED JEWISH APPEALC$97,000
JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADAC$3,600
CALGARY JCCC$2,500
CANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOMC$2,375
CANADIAN HADASSAH WIZO SUSTAINERC$2,000
JEWISH FAMILY SERVICES CANADAC$2,000
ARNICA FOUNATIONC$1,000
KIDS CANCER CAREC$500
PROJECT WARMTH SOCIETY OF ALBERTAC$350
CALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONC$250
FOOTHILLS ACADEMY SOCIETYC$250
ALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CANADAC$150
NA'AMAT CANADA CALGARYC$150
CANADIAN RED CROSSC$100
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$2.5M · 16 repeat orgsC$200k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
29

Total granted

C$2.5M
C$194k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+10%

Still filing today

88%
45%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’23’24
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

  • AC
    ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$1.8M · revenue +157%
  • CJ
    CALGARY JEWISH FEDERATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$588k · revenue +43%
  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$16k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • UJ
    UNITED JEWISH APPEAL
    one grant, 2021 · C$97k
  • JC
    JEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CALGARY
    one grant, 2021 · C$67k · revenue +2%
  • JN
    JEWISH NATIONAL FUND OF CANADA
    2× · 2017–2019 · C$4k

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
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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2
The Friends of the Calgary Jewish Academy Trust

The charitycontinues to receive donations and investment revenue and to make allocations to 'the calgary jewish academy'

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3
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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4
The Calgary Foundation

The Calgary Foundation carried out its charitable purpose through the ongoing administration of its granting programs. While the Foundation provides grants to support charitable activity across the entire sector it has a particular focus…

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5
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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6
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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7
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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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
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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10
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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11
The Edmonton Jewish Community Charitable Foundation

The edmonton jewish community charitable foundation (ejccf) helps support jewish causes that are important to them. we provide resources to make the community's vision a reality working in partnership with our donors and striving to ensure…

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12
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Arnica 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

34 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. 34 of the 50 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
33/34
Grantees still filing
24/34
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 CANCER FOUNDATION — C$1,800,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCALGARY JEWISH FEDERATION — C$588,000 over 5y, 9.7% of budgetJEWISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATION CALGARY — C$66,786 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$16,100 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY — C$9,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWELLSPRING CALGARY — C$7,600 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHADASSAH-WIZO ORGANIZATION OF CANADA — C$7,510 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER CENTRE — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetJEWISH FAMILY SERVICE CALGARY — C$7,097 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY JCC — C$5,037 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN MAGEN DAVID ADOM — C$4,175 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWEIZMANN CANADA — C$3,600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS CANCER CARE — C$3,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJEWISH HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA — C$1,360 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPROJECT WARMTH SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$1,150 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA-ISRAEL CHILDRENS CENTRES — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetARNICA FOUNATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetBEIT HALOCHEM CANADA — C$750 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$750 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetBETH TZEDECE CONGREGATION SOCIETY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN'S BACKPACKS FOR CHILDREN IN NEED SOCIETY — C$250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFOOTHILLS ACADEMY SOCIETY — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN LIVER FOUNDATION — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBANFF CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITY — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$150 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHABAD LUBAVITCH OF ALBERTA — C$36 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.

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 Alvin and Mona Li…The Calgary FoundationJewish Community Foun…Harry and Martha Cohe…Somar Family Foundati…Calgary Lodge Menorah…Sam Ousher Switzer Ch…ATB Investor Services…Calgary Shaw Charity …United Way of Calgary…Calgary Flames Founda…Carthy Foundation
The Alvin and Mona Libin FoundationAB16.6× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Alvin and Mona Libin Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Calgary · Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation · Somar Family Foundation · Calgary Lodge Menorah Charitable Foundation · Sam Ousher Switzer Charitable Foundation · ATB Investor Services Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Calgary Flames Foundation · Carthy 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 50 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 831388699:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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