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Calgary, AB · Public foundation

The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund

1) supporting international projects that include clean water supply and disease prevention building sustainable homes and providing support for education.

C$1.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
34
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$966k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 34 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$57k
  • C$10k–50k19 grants · C$415k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$509k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$966k
C$17,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$4.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE ROTARY FOUNDATION CANADAC$966,382
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$200,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CALGARYC$125,000
SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$100,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CALGARY AND AREAC$83,750
CALGARY YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONC$48,500
NSTEPC$47,000
CANADIAN CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATIONC$40,000
CARYA SOCIETY OF CALGARYC$25,000
UNITED FOR LITERACYC$25,000
HOMESPACEC$25,000
YOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARYC$25,000
ALBERTA NETWORK OF IMMIGRANT WOMENC$23,200
THE CITY OF CALGARY PARKS FOUNDATIONC$20,000
THE WOMEN'S CENTRE OF CALGARYC$20,000
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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$9.9M · 42 repeat orgsC$2.4M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

42 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

42
68

Total granted

C$9.9M
C$1.9M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+16%

Still filing today

90%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 75% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$487k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • TR
    THE ROTARY FOUNDATION CANADA
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$5.8M · revenue +10%
  • CO
    CENTRE OF AFFORDABLE WATER AND SANITATION TECHNOLOGY
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$181k · revenue +117%
  • DC
    DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$113k · revenue +138%

Funded once

  • TR
    The Rotary Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$843k
  • CP
    Calgary Parks Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$566k
  • DH
    Discovery House Family Violence Prevention
    one grant, 2017 · C$30k

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 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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2
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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3
Beam Foundation

BEAM Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of kids & youth in Calgary Alberta. Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable wellness programs to children and youth who are…

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4
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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5
Cups Calgary Society

CUPS supports Calgarians impacted by poverty trauma and systemic marginalization with a unique integrated approach to care. We empower people to work holistically to create and achieve goals that support their well-being and build…

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6
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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7
Calgary Police Foundation

The calgary police foundation (cpf)operates under the name of the calgary police youth foundation. it's purpose is to educate youth about good citizenship safe communities policing and avoiding victimization and criminality. cpf does this…

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8
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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9
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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10
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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11
Evenstart for Children Foundation of Calgary

The foundation provides a centre based program for disadvantaged and at risk preschool aged children and their families as well as sponsorship program for children at risk who are referred by the community partners.

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12
Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association

The charity supports children who are living with disabilities and specialized needs in our communities. Through education advocacy direct support and community outreach we support children who are facing physical developmental emotional…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is United Way of Calgary and Area and the most unlike its peers is Arnica 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

117 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. 117 of the 128 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)
24
Early backer (in before they grew)
114/117
Grantees still filing
65/117
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 budgetTHE ROTARY FOUNDATION CANADA — C$5,801,910 over 7y, 10.0% of budgetUNITED WAY OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$1,673,970 over 5y, 0.8% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$253,924 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCENTRE OF AFFORDABLE WATER AND SANITATION TECHNOLOGY(CAWST) — C$180,989 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CALGARY — C$125,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY — C$113,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBow Valley College — C$109,094 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BETHANY CARE FOUNDATION — C$103,000 over 2y, 4.1% of budgetSAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$100,000 over 1y, 4.8% of budgetNSTEP — C$94,000 over 4y, 46% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA — C$83,460 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetHULL SERVICES — C$80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY READS — C$77,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetI CAN FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — C$76,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Network of Immigrant Women — C$63,200 over 4y, 17% of budgetPOTENTIAL PLACE SOCIETY — C$58,000 over 4y, 1.6% of budgetCALGARY YOUNG WOMENS CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$48,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetWest Calgary Rotary Club - Community Service Fund — C$46,500 over 3y, 18% of budgetCANADIAN CHILDREN'S LITERACY FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetYOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARY — C$37,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetSOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY — C$33,430 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY STREET KIDS SOCIETY — C$32,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetJANUS ACADEMY SOCIETY — C$29,800 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHOMESPACE — C$27,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetROTARY CHALLENGER PARK — C$26,020 over 7y, 0.6% of budgetCARYA SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDISCOVERY HOUSE FAMILY VIOLENCE PREVENTION SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetUNITED FOR LITERACY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNO ORDINARY FOUNDATION — C$24,500 over 3y, 5.2% of budgetTHE ORCHESTRA SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$24,000 over 4y, 4.8% of budgetRESET SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$20,100 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetMomentum Community Economic Development Society — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE WOMEN'S CENTRE OF CALGARY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetI CAN FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetALEXANDRA COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$19,800 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS — C$19,710 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARBI — C$19,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetYOUTH FOR CHRIST ASSOCIATION OF CALGARY — C$18,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCanadian Women for Women in Afghanistan — C$18,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetRUTH'S HOUSE SOCIETY — C$17,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetAutism Aspergers Friendship Soceity of Calgary — C$16,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF NORTH BAY CANADA CHARITABLE TRUST — C$13,734 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetTHE STRONGEST OAK FOUNDATION — C$13,637 over 1y, 38% of budgetCALGARY LEARNS ASSOCIATION — C$13,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMERCY SHIPS CANADA SOCIETY — C$13,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GOVERNORS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Legacy Children's Foundation-Alberta — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.3% 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.

Calgary Flames Founda…Calgary Shaw Charity …Kids Up Front Foundat…The Calgary FoundationCarthy FoundationRotary Club of Calgar…Cenovus Employee Foun…Calgary Inter-Faith F…Nickle Family Foundat…United Way of Calgary…Viewpoint FoundationChildren's Hospital A…
Calgary Flames FoundationAB29.6× affinity31 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · The Calgary Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Nickle Family Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Viewpoint Foundation · Children's Hospital Aid Society

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 128 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 119124501:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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