Sherwood Park, AB · Private foundation
The Robbins Foundation Canada
The robbins foundation makes donations to qualified donees
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$20k
- C$50k–250k4 grants · C$365k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| EDMONTON SYMPHONY SOCIETY | C$150,000 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | C$82,626 |
| BAYLOR UNIVERSITY | C$82,010 |
| BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS | C$50,000 |
| BADLANDS PASSION PLAY | C$10,000 |
| ROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 45% of grant dollars (C$1.7M). The 55% that went abroad (C$2.1M) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 55% of all-years giving (C$2.1M)
1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 55% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$175k went to new ones.
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
- BUBAYLOR UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION4× · 2017–2020 · C$2.0M
- RAROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION5× · 2017–2021 · C$724k
- ESEDMONTON SYMPHONY SOCIETY5× · 2017–2024 · C$534k · revenue -1%
Funded once
- MUMACEWAN UNIVERSITYone grant, 2023 · C$165k · revenue +19%
- FWFRANCIS WINSPEAR CENTRE FOR MUSICone grant, 2023 · C$125k · revenue +1%
- SPSHERWOOD PARK MINOR BASEBALL ASSOCIATIONone grant, 2023 · C$20k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Present world class chamber musuc musicians and ensembles to perform in edmonton. present 5-7 concerts and a multi-day chamber festival. provide outreach and master classes for edmonton students
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…
In support of the calgary arts academy society to advance arts immersion in education so support capital endeavors for the society.
Build capacity in arts organizations in alberta through grants; arts management training and awards; undertake arts-related research and advocacy.
The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra is a pillar of Calgary's vibrant arts community and since 1955 has grown to be one of Calgary's most celebrated live music ensembles. Each season the Calgary Philharmonic presents classical masterworks…
The purpose of the esch foundation is to support advance promote maintain and assist the edmonton symphony society (the 'society') and the francis winspear centre for music (the 'centre') intheir respective ojectives by the assembly and…
The alberta symphony orchestra is a touring orchestra with the main goal to increase public awareness to classical music culture by bringing the beauty of classical music to them.
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…
Fulfilling its mandate to preserve the historical intergrity of the empress theatre and to promote and produce arts and culture in southern 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…
To support young musician develop their orchestra skills through concerts benefit performances and workshops.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Edmonton Symphony Society and the most unlike its peers is 489520 Alberta Ltd.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
7 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. 7 of the 11 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Atco Electric Epic · The Dianne and Irving Kipnes Foundation · The Stollery Charitable Foundation · Telus Employees Charitable Trust · Allard Foundation Ltd. · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving 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.