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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Robert and Tatiana Ritchie Foundation

The object of the foundation is to receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income thereon from time to time to qualified donees as defined in the income tax act (canada)

C$117k
Granted FY2024still arriving
15
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 15 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k13 grants · C$32k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$75k
C$2,500
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$2.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCGILL UNIVERSITYC$75,000
RUNDLE COLLEGE SOCIETYC$10,000
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$5,000
CAWSTC$3,000
PANORAMA FOUNDATION SOCIETYC$3,000
BLACK WATCH OF CANADA FOUNDATIONC$3,000
MUSICOUNTSC$2,500
ROBINSON OUTREACH AT RIVERCROSS RANCH (ROARR)C$2,500
URBAN SQUASH TORONTOC$2,000
WINDMILL MICROLENDINGC$2,000
MONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CALGARYC$1,000
CHATEAUGUAY VALLEY REGIONAL HIGH SCHOOLC$1,000
PARKS FOUNDATION CALGARYC$1,000
BC SCHIZOPHRENIA SOCIETY FOUNDATIONC$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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$828k · 15 repeat orgsC$69k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
14

Total granted

C$828k
C$49k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+17%
+31%

Still filing today

100%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% 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

  • MU
    MCGILL UNIVERSITY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$410k · revenue +41%
  • MA
    MOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$30k · revenue +39%
  • PF
    PANORAMA FOUNDATION SOCIETY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$24k · revenue +17%

Funded once

  • JD
    JUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +6%
  • CV
    COLUMBIA VALLEY SEARC & RESCUEgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +31%
  • DO
    DISTRICT OF INVERMERE
    one grant, 2022 · 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
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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2
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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3
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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4
Metabolic Syndrome Canada

Funding programs carried out by the university of alberta & british columbia to improve the health of canadians through nutrition and graded exercise.

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5
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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6
Alberta University of the Arts

Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.

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7
Aaas Foundation

The canadian foundation for food and agricultural education funds and directs two major scholarships for undergraduate and graduate students at canadian universities: the karl c. ivarson alberta students scholarships

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8
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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9
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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10
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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11
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Seniors Resource Society and the most unlike its peers is Nova Hudson. 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 36 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/32
Grantees still filing
18/32
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMCGILL UNIVERSITY — C$409,800 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetANGELS FOR MEXICO SOCIETY CALGARY — C$105,000 over 2y, 98% of budgetCANADIAN CHILDREN'S SHELTER OF HOPE FOUNDATION — C$104,300 over 4y, 3.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA VALLEY GREENWAYS TRAIL ALLIANCE — C$60,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMOUNT ALLISON UNIVERSITY — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPANORAMA FOUNDATION SOCIETY — C$23,500 over 8y, 10% of budgetFOUNDATION FOR CIVIC LITERACY — C$20,000 over 2y, 26% of budgetCAWST — C$18,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFRANCIS G. COSCO FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetJUVENILE DIABETES FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetRUNDLE COLLEGE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLACK WATCH OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$7,000 over 4y, 2.0% of budgetPROJECT SUNSHINE CANADA — C$6,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA VALLEY SEARC & RESCUE — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetCANADIAN WOMAN'S FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetIMMIGRANT ACCESS FUND CANADA — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL GALLERY OF CANADA FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCONCORDIA UNIVERSITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY SENIOR RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBC SCHIZOPHRENIC SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROBINSON OUTREACH AT RIVERCROSS RANCH (ROARR) — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMUSICOUNTS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetURBAN SQUASH TORONTO — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMACEWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMICI CAMPING CHARITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMONTESSORI SCHOOL OF CALGARY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY OF B. C. — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNOVA HUDSON — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% 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 FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Viewpoint FoundationToronto FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…The Read Family Found…The Jeffrey and Maril…Totem Charitable Foun…Wcpd FoundationRaymond James Canada …Burgundy Legacy Found…Jewish Community Foun…
The Calgary FoundationAB9.2× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Toronto Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Read Family Foundation · The Jeffrey and Marilyn McCaig Family Foundation · Totem Charitable Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Burgundy Legacy Foundation · Jewish Community Foundation of Montreal / La Fondation Communautaire Juive de Montréal

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 36 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 847481900:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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