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Rocky View County, AB · Private foundation

The Pole Foundation

The foundation provides donations to qualified donees to organizations with a particular emphasis on the relief of poverty throughout the world by provision of food/clothing/infrastructure/medical services to persons in need.

C$35k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$25k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$7,500
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ISLAND LAKE CHRISTIAN RETREAT CENTREC$10,000
HER VICTORY SOCIETY CALGARYC$7,500
HOPE MISSION CALGARYC$7,500
RAN NETWORK FOR BUSINESS AS MISSION (BAM) ZAMBIAC$5,000
COOPERATIVE ESL MINISTRIESC$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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$405k · 3 repeat orgsC$55k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
7

Total granted

C$405k
C$35k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
+18%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 43% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k 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

  • NB
    NEW BEGINNINGS CHURCH INTERNATIONAL OF CALGARY
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$285k · revenue -43% · 43% of their budget
  • IL
    Island Lake Christian Retreat Centre
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$85k · revenue +24%
  • CE
    COOPERATIVE ESL MINISTRIES
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$35k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • HH
    HELPING HANDS SOCIETY OF COCHRANE & AREAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +54%
  • HO
    Hands On Outreach & Development Centre Inc.
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k
  • IJ
    INTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION CANADA
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +7%

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
New Connections Ministries

Provides bible studies and spiritual counselling for inmates of penal institutions in Eastern Ontario Provides correspondence bible courses for inmates and ex-inmates and their families Provides addiction personal and family counselling to…

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2
Harvest House Ministries Inc.

Outreach faith based mentoring and many other helpful and relevant services for persons struggling with addictions and life controlling issues. Individual youth and family crisis intervention with recovery initiatives. Centre offers…

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3
New Life Community Kamloops

The New Life Community is a Christian Organization that has been open in Kamloops since 1980. We have been working to serve, strenthen, and uplift the people in our community through a variety of services and programs. The New Life…

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4
Fresh Start Recovery Centre

Fresh Start Recovery Centre has 3 treatment centre's in Alberta with 3 sober apartment buildings in which clients who are in recovery can live work and return to community as a person in recovery. Our program is 16 weeks based on the 12…

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5
Calgary Young Women's Christian Association

Yw calgary supports women and their families in meeting their immediate and most basic needs and works directly with them to create positive and long-lasting change in their lives. we believe that healthy women and healthy families lead to…

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6
Calgary Keys to Recovery Society

Calgary Keys to Recovery Society provides housing and case management services to at risk individuals upon their exit from addictions treatment.

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7
Calgary Dream Centre

The calgary dream centre's programs provide recovery-oriented training vocational training and housing opportunities to those experiencing addiction and homelessness. at the calgary dream centre people are given the resources and…

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8
New Life Recovery Ministries

Offers mentoring coaching and classroom studies to help deal with and bring recovery from life controlling issues and problems. this is a residential program for young ladies. it also provides life skills such as cooking and homemaking.…

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9
Community Outreach Canada - Second Chance

Social Services- Wrap Support Food Clothing Housing support Bail & Legal Admin Support Record Suspension Mentorship & Counselling Support Life Skill Coaching

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10
New Beginnings Family Church Calgary

We hold regular Sunday services and midweek meetings prayer meetings and bible studies. We provide community outreach. We support missions - both local and abroad. We provide children's programs.

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11
Hope for Freedom Society

Addiction recovery services and programs including room and board counselling 12-step recovery programs life skills training spiritual development. also outreach programs.

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12
Bridges of Canada Inc.

We provide camps for children of inmates and ex-offenders and others deemed 'at risk'. Christian testimony books audio tapes videos CD's and DVD's are sent into prisons jails and detention centres. We provide a prayer line for inmates…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Mission and the most unlike its peers is Mainsprings Pregnancy and Family Support Association. 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

14 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/14
Grantees still filing
7/14
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNEW BEGINNINGS CHURCH INTERNATIONAL OF CALGARY — C$285,000 over 7y, 43% of budgetIsland Lake Christian Retreat Centre — C$85,000 over 8y, 13% of budgetCOOPERATIVE ESL MINISTRIES — C$35,000 over 7y, 19% of budgetHER VICTORY SOCIETY CALGARY — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHOPE MISSION CALGARY — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAN NETWORK FOR BUSINESS AS MISSION (BAM) ZAMBIA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHELPING HANDS SOCIETY OF COCHRANE & AREA — C$5,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetHands On Outreach & Development Centre Inc. — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetINTERNATIONAL JUSTICE MISSION CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTeen Challenge Saskatchewan — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEW LIFE PRISON MINISTRIES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLethbridge Christian Tabarnacle — C$5,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetCALGARY PREGNANCY CARE CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% 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.

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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 13 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 821168945:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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