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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Prabhudas and Vijya Ruparell Family Foundation

The family foundation exists to help the community through donations to other registered charities that are involved in local community programs.

C$231k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$105k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$22k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$209k
C$5,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SAITC$105,000
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$103,500
PRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATIONC$5,000
ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CROHN'S AND COLITIS CANADAC$5,000
THE KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$3,000
CANADIAN-BOLIVIA CHILDREN'S SOCIETYC$2,000
GUJARATI MANDAL OF CALGARYC$1,001
CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCHC$1,000
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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$917k · 13 repeat orgsC$513k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +80% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

13 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

13
19

Total granted

C$917k
C$300k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+20%

Still filing today

100%
84%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 7% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$214k 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

  • CF
    CALGARY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$350k · revenue +213%
  • BI
    Bab Inc.
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$278k · revenue +14%
  • CF
    CALGARY FOOD BANK
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$70k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • KC
    KBF CANADAgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$188k · revenue +72%
  • BI
    BAPS INC.
    one grant, 2023 · C$51k · revenue -16%
  • UO
    University of Calgary
    one grant, 2018 · C$15k

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
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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2
Calgary Health Foundation

Provide support for medical services long term care medical research and education by granting to alberta health services - calgary zone university of calgary medical school and other registered charities providing support of health care…

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3
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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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 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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6
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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7
Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation

Charitable status was received on April 1 2018 and CAHF has been in a set up phase since that time. In this current fiscal year there has been activity related to preparing to deliver charitable activities which can be described as…

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8
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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9
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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10
Punjabi Community Health Services Calgary Society

The Organization operates to provide supportive counselling to South Asian community members and their families through assisting them to find effective solutions within their own cultural context; helping them identify and navigate access…

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11
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Homeless Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Radha Mahdav Cultural 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

32 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. 32 of the 35 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)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
24/32
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 budgetCALGARY FOUNDATION — C$350,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetBab Inc. — C$278,003 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetKBF CANADA — C$187,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetSAIT — C$105,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$103,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHOMESPACE SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$69,958 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBAPS INC. — C$51,001 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetThe Kidney Foundation of Canada — C$47,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD — C$26,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetLeukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGUJARATI MANDAL OF CALGARY — C$12,501 over 3y, 8.4% of budgetDASHMESH CULTURAL CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCROHN'S AND COLITIS CANADA — C$9,150 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANADA-BOLIVIA CHILDREN'S SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 2y, 3.8% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$6,900 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR AIDS RESEARCH — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET CANCER FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSikh Society of Calgary — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetStrathcona Tweedmuir School Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRadha Madau Cultural Association — C$2,902 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHINDU SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$2,002 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMovember Canada — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOR THE LOVE OF CHILDREN SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYOUNG ADULT CANCER CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY INDO-CANADIAN CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetLOVE FOR LEWISTON FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY DROP-IN CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRAINBOW RAILROAD — C$250 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 Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Atco Electric EpicAtco Gas Employees' C…Aqueduct FoundationThe Jeffrey and Maril…BenefAction FoundationToronto FoundationRaymond James Canada …Canada GivesUnited Way of the Alb…Charitable Gift Funds…
The Calgary FoundationAB12.6× affinity13 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 · Atco Electric Epic · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Aqueduct Foundation · The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Canada Gives · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada

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 35 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 829320431:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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