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St. Albert, AB · Private foundation

The Scott Nelson Family Foundation

The foundation was started to provide funding to other charitable organizations.

C$15k
Granted FY2022
4
Grants FY2022
2
Regions reached
C$12k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$4k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$12k
C$2,520
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HOPE MISSIONC$11,500
CANADA HELPSC$2,520
WORLD VISIONC$1,176
Individual grant recipientC$250
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 57% of grant dollars (C$133k). The 43% that went abroad (C$102k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 43% of all-years giving (C$102k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$26k · 2 grants

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$88k · 4 repeat orgsC$147k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +162% since the first grant, against +33% for the ones you funded once.

4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2022, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

4
15

Total granted

C$88k
C$147k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+162%
+33%

Still filing today

75%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 98% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$250 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
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

  • HM
    HOPE MISSION
    3× · 2019–2022 · C$38k · revenue +162%
  • CH
    CANADA HELPS
    2× · 2017–2022 · C$3k · revenue +223%
  • WV
    WORLD VISION
    3× · 2019–2022 · C$2k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • RO
    Roots of Change Foundation
    one grant, 2017 · C$41k · revenue -4%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2019 · C$25k
  • CC
    Crossroads Churchgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k · revenue +35%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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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Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Northern Alberta, an Alberta Society

Ronald McDonald House Charities Alberta supports families seeking vital medical treatment for their seriously ill or injured child. Our warm, compassionate Houses provide a home-away-from home for families who need to travel for medical…

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2
Fh Canada

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…

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3
The Canadian Red Cross Society / La Societe Canadienne De La Croix-Rouge

Our focus is on two fields of work (emergencies and health) in Canada and around the world four key priorities (readiness response and recovery; preparedness and risk reduction; advancing reconciliation; and digital transformation) and…

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4
Imagine Canada

Imagine Canada is a national charitable organization whose cause is Canada's charities and nonprofits. Its four Strategic Directions are to: energize the sector's voices; ensure the sector's relevance; influence the sector's environment;…

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5
Shelterbox Canada

ShelterBox Canada provides shelter essential items and technical assistance to help some of the world’s most vulnerable people recover and rebuild their homes after disaster. ShelterBox teams listen and adapt our support to the needs of…

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6
Sony Canada Charitable Foundation

Support of make-a-wish ronald mcdonald house other healthcare outside looking in canadian online giving foundation canada food bank campfire circle canadian cancer society dreams take flight yvr and the unity values foundation

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7
Compassion Canada

Compassion Canada is a leading Christian child development organization whose mission is to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Our proven child development program provides infants children and youth around the world with the…

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8
Care Camps of Canada

Mission: To give joy hope and healing power of the outdoors to children with cancer and their families at a specialized oncology camp. Vision: With your help Care Camps will provide hope and healing to every child and family member…

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9
Islamic Relief - Ir Canada

Islamic Relief Canada carries out humanitarian and development programs in over 30 countries. Programs include: • Livelihoods focused on climate-adaptive support and/or economic empowerment; • Health including water sanitation and hygiene…

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10
Ymca Canada

The YMCA is a charity dedicated to building healthy communities by fostering a sense of belonging for all. By creating safe and welcoming spaces that serve people of all ages backgrounds and abilities the YMCA is committed to ensuring…

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11
Charity Intelligence Canada

Founded in 2007 Charity Intelligence researches and analyses Canadian charities so donors have information to make informed and intelligent giving decisions. According to StatsCanada research 30% of Canadians say they do not give more to…

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12
Canadian Cancer Society - SociÉTÉ Canadienne Du Cancer

The Canadian Cancer Society works tirelessly to save and improve lives. We raise funds to fuel the brightest minds in cancer research. We provide a compassionate support system for all those affected by cancer across Canada and for all…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hope Mission and the most unlike its peers is Pathfinders Christian Fellowships. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 20 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
11/13
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRoots of Change Foundation — C$41,179 over 1y, 15% of budgetHOPE MISSION — C$38,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCrossroads Church — C$20,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE — C$17,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBisell Centre — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$2,540 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROOTS OF CHANGE FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPATHFINDERS CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIPS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWORLD VISION — C$2,112 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Blood services — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYoung Life — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMERS SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$100 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.

The Calgary FoundationStrategic Charitable …PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
The Calgary FoundationAB7.2× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 20 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 2022-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 846033835:2022-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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