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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Scotlyn Foundation

The charity researches and donates money to other charitable organizations.

C$60k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$20k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$55k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.6M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NATIONAL MUSIC CANADAC$20,000
CALGARY ZOO FOUNDATIONC$15,000
CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARYC$10,000
BROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY STREET KIDS SOCIETYC$10,000
CALGARY HUMANE SOCIETYC$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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$341k · 8 repeat orgsC$15k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

C$341k
C$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+78%
+101%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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

  • CZ
    CALGARY ZOON FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$45k · revenue +78%
  • BB
    BROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY STREET KIDS SOCIETY
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$25k · revenue +202%
  • YT
    Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$20k · revenue +693%

Funded once

  • AI
    ALBERTA INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue +66%
  • BG
    BOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CALGARYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +101%

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.

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The Bow Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The Bow Valley Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (BVSPCA) operates a No-kill No-cage animal adoption facility in Canmore Alberta. The BVSPCA serves the Bow Valley and surrounding areas including Banff Canmore Kananaskis Lake…

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2
Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society

The calgary wildlife rehabilitaion society is dedicated to treating injured and orphaned wildlife and providing valuable outreach and education to the public as well as engaging volunteers in motivational and building experiences.

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3
The Calgary Zoological Society

Develops operates promotes integrated zoological botanical & prehistoric parks for the combined purpose of conservation research recreation & scientific study.

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4
Inside Education Society of Alberta

Inside Education programs aim to create generations of engaged citizens who understand the important relationships betweenenvironment economy and society and who think critically and creatively about environmental topics and actively…

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5
Help a Buddy Fund

We financially support registered charitable animal welfare groups in Alberta by offering monetary grants and joint fundraising efforts to those who have programs in place to support animals in need of long-term rehabilitation of a year or…

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6
Rocky Mountain Animal Rescue Foundation

Our primary program involves rescuing homeless abandoned freezing starving dogs and puppies and to a few amount cats and kittens in Alberta as well as Saskatchewan and Manitoba. Rescued animals are matched in our Foster Program a highly…

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7
Alberta Council for Environmental Education

Work collaboratively to advance environmental education in Alberta. Move environmental education from the margins to mainstream by harnessing youth voice to guide decision makers increasing students environmental and climate literacy and…

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8
Calgary Animal Rescue Society

Rescue abused and abandoned animals provide verterinary care as needed and find loving homes for these animals. provide spay/neuter clinic in remote locations.

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9
Alberta Birds of Prey Foundation

Rehabilitating and releasing injured birds of prey back to the wild; captive breeding and release of endangered species. Encouraging increased public environmental awareness; studying and monitoring wild birds of prey populations.

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10
Alberta Raptor Preservation Society

Survey and monitor raptor populations band young build artificial sites co-ordinate release work and provide information on prairie falcon populations to the Province and to Raptor Research.

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11
British Columbia Humane Society

BC Humane Society is involved with animal welfare at many levels across the province. From heroic acts of rescue to conducting spay and neuter clinics in remote communities to ongoing fundraising events we step up for animals in every…

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12
Wild Horses of Alberta Society

We operate a proper rescue and handling facility for wild horses that is safe for the public and where we provide presentations on the history of wild horses in alberta. we rescue gentle and rehome wild horses through our adoption program.…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation and the most unlike its peers is National Music Centre. 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

11 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
11/11
Grantees still filing
8/11
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetNATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE — C$155,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetNational Music Centre — C$60,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetCALGARY ZOON FOUNDATION — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR CALGARY STREET KIDS SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative Foundation — C$20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBC & ALBERTA GUIDE DOG — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA INSTITUTE FOR WILDLIFE CONSERVATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUBS OF CALGARY — C$5,000 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.

United Way of Calgary…Atco Electric EpicUnited Way of the Alb…The Calgary FoundationStrategic Charitable …Cenovus Employee Foun…The Edmonton Communit…Raymond James Canada …Canada GivesBenefAction FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Charitable Gift Funds…
United Way of Calgary and AreaAB8.9× affinity6 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Electric Epic · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · The Calgary Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Raymond James Canada Foundation · Canada Gives · BenefAction Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · 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 11 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 852600410:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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