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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Shawana Foundation

The Foundation donates to qualified donees to support community education environment animal poverty relief and health initiatives

C$673k
Granted FY2024still arriving
41
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 41 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k14 grants · C$63k
  • C$10k–50k26 grants · C$410k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$200k
C$10,000
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$12M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATIONC$200,000
THE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETYC$35,000
DARK SPARKC$35,000
TORONTO HUMANE SOCIETYC$25,000
INN FROM THE COLDC$25,000
GOLDSTREAM FOOD BANK SOCIETYC$20,000
THE IVEY FUNDC$20,000
CALGARY FOOD BANKC$20,000
GREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANKC$20,000
MOISSON MONTREALC$20,000
KIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTAC$15,000
CANUCK AUTISM NETWORK SOCIETYC$15,000
CANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY - BRITISH COLUMBIAC$15,000
CANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICEC$15,000
CENTRE FOR SEXUALITY SOCIETYC$10,000
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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.7M · 61 repeat orgsC$661k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

61 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2024, 32 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

61
42

Total granted

C$2.7M
C$535k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+18%

Still filing today

98%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$126k 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

  • CW
    CANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$803k · revenue +234%
  • CO
    Community of Christ
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$600k · revenue +43% · 47% of their budget
  • TM
    THE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$74k · revenue +120%

Funded once

  • CO
    Community of Christgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$200k · revenue +351%
  • UW
    United Way of Calgary and Area
    one grant, 2020 · C$77k · revenue -20%
  • TS
    The Safe Haven Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$28k · revenue +12%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society

Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society supplies funding primarily to Qualified Donees that support spay and neuter assistance programs in Calgary and surrounding areas.

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5
Casa Mental Health

CASA Mental Health delivers holistic culturally safe wrap-around mental health services to Albertans aged 3 - 18 and their families. Major programs include Residential and Day Programs that consist of CASA House Preschool Day Programs…

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6
Streetohome Foundation

Streetohome Foundation is changing lives and building better futures by working with the private sector to broker and leverage new funding innovative ideas and opportunities for collaboration between public and non-profit sectors to…

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7
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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8
Kids With Cancer Society of Northern Alberta

The Kids with Cancer Society offers programming to assist families in the following areas: Support - Provides the necessary tools to help families cope for the demands of the treatment and minimize family disruption and related stress.…

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9
Vancouver Foundation

Vancouver Foundation leverages the generosity of donors towards projects initiatives and organizations working to create meaningful and lasting impact on our communities. We continued delivering a number of grant programs and initiatives…

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10
Luna Child and Youth Advocacy Centre Ltd.

Luna’s purpose is to ensure children youth and families impacted by child abuse receive the support they need to heal; to hold offenders accountable; and to build engaged communities where everyone plays a role in preventing abuse so that…

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11
Calgary Health Foundation

Provide support for medical services long term care medical research and education by granting to alberta health services - calgary zone university of calgary medical school and other registered charities providing support of health care…

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12
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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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 Camp Carmangay. 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

107 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. 107 of the 113 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)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
105/107
Grantees still filing
76/107
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 budgetCANADIAN WOMEN'S FOUNDATION — C$803,000 over 5y, 1.1% of budgetCommunity of Christ — C$600,000 over 3y, 47% of budgetNATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE — C$89,738 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetUnited Way of Calgary and Area — C$77,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$74,221 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetInn from the Cold — C$69,500 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetDARK SPARK — C$65,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTORONTO HUMANE SOCIETY — C$48,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetStollery Children s Hospital Foundation — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGREATER VANCOUVER FOOD BANK — C$40,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$35,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY — C$34,500 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetAlberta Children s Hospital Foundation — C$34,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMEOW FOUNDATION FOR THE ADOPTION OF ABANDONED CATS — C$33,500 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetMOISSON MONTREAL — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetWater First Education and Training Inc. — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetOPTIONS FOR SEXUAL HEALTH — C$30,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE IVEY FUND — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPacific Wild Alliance — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCanadian Abilities Foundation — C$29,001 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEgale — C$29,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetThe Safe Haven Foundation — C$28,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetThe Shawnigan Lake School Foundation — C$25,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Choral Society — C$25,000 over 5y, 2.2% of budgetAlberta Animal Rescue Crew Society — C$22,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCUPS Health Education Housing — C$20,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCamp Courage the First Responders Society — C$20,376 over 2y, 16% of budgetCENTRE FOR SEXUALITY SOCIETY — C$20,275 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetGOLDSTREAM FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTRUE PATRIOT LOVE FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Canadian Red Cross Society — C$19,500 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetLITTLE WARRIORS — C$19,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GORD DOWNIE AND CHANIE WENJACK FUND — C$17,733 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSEXUAL HEALTH NETWORK FOR QUEBEC — C$16,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE IMPACT SOCIETY FOR CHILDREN & FAMILIES IN TURMOIL — C$15,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetCANADIAN PARKS AND WILDERNESS SOCIETY - BRITISH COLUMBIA — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCANUCK AUTISM NETWORK SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetIndpsire — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANUCK PLACE CHILDREN'S HOSPICE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetKerby Assembly — C$14,825 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetPLANNED PARENTHOOD TORONTO — C$14,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY OF EDMONTON — C$14,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE TEAM I WILL FOUNDATION — C$14,000 over 3y, 43% of budgetThe Doorway — C$13,600 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES CANADA — C$13,000 over 3y, 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.

Cenovus Employee Foun…Calgary Flames Founda…The Calgary FoundationThe Jules FoundationAtco Gas Employees' C…Viewpoint FoundationNickle Family Foundat…Calgary Shaw Charity …Carthy FoundationAtco Electric EpicHunter Family Foundat…Place2Give Foundation
Cenovus Employee FoundationAB21.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Cenovus Employee Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · The Jules Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Viewpoint Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Hunter Family Foundation · Place2Give 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.

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 113 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 829414705:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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