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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Read Family Foundation

The charity researches and donates money to other charitable organizations

C$251k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k11 grants · C$42k
  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$110k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$100k
C$5,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$6.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWANC$50,000
TRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACTC$50,000
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$29,000
CALGARY FOOD BANKC$25,000
BROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY'S KIDSC$15,000
ALPINE CANADAC$10,500
STRATHCONA-TWEEDSMUIR SCHOOL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATIONC$10,000
RUNDLE COLLEGE SOCIETYC$10,000
SPAR DEVELOPMENTC$5,000
SHUSWAP COMMUNITY FOUDNATIONC$5,000
COLUMBIA VALLEY FOOD BANKC$5,000
THE MUSTARD SEEDC$5,000
KIDSPORT CALGARYC$5,000
PACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATIONC$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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$706k · 18 repeat orgsC$154k to everyone else

18 repeat relationships — 14 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
20

Total granted

C$706k
C$87k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+19%
+33%

Still filing today

78%
70%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$67k 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

  • TS
    TRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$140k · revenue +37%
  • AC
    ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$89k · revenue +2%
  • CF
    CALGARY FOOD BANK
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$89k · revenue +80%

Funded once

  • CS
    CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k · revenue +51%
  • JS
    JA SOUTHERN ALBERTAgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$13k · revenue +33%
  • TC
    THE CALGARY YMCA FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k

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 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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3
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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4
The Brawn Family Foundation.

Supporting capital projects and programs that impact the Calgary and surrounding area by generating opportunities for its citizens.

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5
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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6
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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7
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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8
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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9
Water Matters Society of Alberta

Scholarly research and dissemination of information regarding water conservation and water policy.

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10
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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11
Calgary Homeless Foundation

Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness. Providing grants to qualified donees and other community organizations to assist individuals experiencing homelessness…

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12
Lethbridge Community College Foundation
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Branch Out Neurological 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

35 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. 35 of the 44 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/35
Grantees still filing
23/35
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT — C$140,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$89,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$88,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY'S KIDS — C$88,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF SASKATCHEWAN — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$40,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIAL VENTURE PARTNERS CALGARY — C$30,000 over 3y, 3.9% of budgetRUNDLE COLLEGE SOCIETY — C$27,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSTRATHCONA-TWEEDMUIR SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA VALLEY FOOD BANK — C$19,000 over 3y, 3.1% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED — C$19,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPACIFIC SALMON FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetJA SOUTHERN ALBERTA — C$12,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLIVING LAKES CANADA — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetGENERATIONS OF HOPE — C$10,350 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA VALLEY GRENNWAYS TRAIL ALLIANCE — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetTROUT UNLIMATED CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHUSWAP COMMUNITY FOUDNATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPAR DEVELOPMENT — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRANCH OUT NEUROLOGICAL FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCAUSE AND EFFECT FOUNDATION — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA CALGARY — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE LEIGHTON FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ALS SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$2,580 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCLASSROOM CHAMPIONS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAGG CREEK TRAILS ASSOCIATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetEDUCATION MATTERS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMILITARY ENGERINEERING INSTITUTE OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetDISCOVERY HOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE LEUKEMIA AND LYMPHOMA SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOCCER WITHOUT BOUNDARIES — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRE FOR AFFORDABLE WATER AND SANITATION TECHNOLOGY (CAWST — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTwo Wheel View - Calgary Ltd. — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FoundationCalgary Shaw Charity …United Way of Calgary…Atco Electric EpicCenovus Employee Foun…Calgary Flames Founda…Hunter Family Foundat…Viewpoint FoundationAqueduct FoundationWerklund FoundationTotem Charitable Foun…Raymond James Canada …
The Calgary FoundationAB17.3× affinity23 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Electric Epic · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Werklund Foundation · Totem Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Canada 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 44 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 828427484:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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