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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Smith and Vanstokkom Foundation

The foundation receives and distributes funds for charitable purposes by making gifts to canadian registered charities

C$365k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$135k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k19 grants · C$60k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$55k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$250k
C$4,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ARTS COMMONSC$135,000
UNITED WAYC$115,000
ST THOMAS UNITED CHURCHC$15,000
CENTRE FOR AFFORDABLE WATER AND SANITATION TECHNOLOGYC$10,000
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITALC$10,000
SAMARITAN CLUB OF CALGARYC$10,000
CALGARY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETYC$10,000
UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOOC$5,000
THE BANFF CENTREC$5,000
SICK KIDS FOUNDATIONC$5,000
CASA LUZ HOUSE OF LIGHTC$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIESC$5,000
CHILDREN'S COTTAGEC$4,000
ALBERTA THEATRE PROJECTSC$3,000
THEATRE CALGARYC$3,000
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.6M · 19 repeat orgsC$37k to everyone else

19 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
4

Total granted

C$1.6M
C$15k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+38%
+96%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$22k 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

  • AC
    ARTS COMMONS
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$398k · revenue +41%
  • ST
    ST THOMAS UNITED CHURCH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$112k · revenue +20%
  • CF
    CENTRE FOR AFFORDABLE WATER AND SANTITATION TECHNOLOGY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$80k · revenue +117%

Funded once

  • AC
    ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +96%
  • AA
    AQUATARIUM AT TALL SHIPS LANDINGgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$3k · revenue +109%
  • CJ
    CALGARY JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue -73%

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 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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2
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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3
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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4
Calgary International Film Festival Society

The calgary international film festival (ciff) is a 12 day showcase of up to 200 multi-genre films from canada and over 40 countries. the festival hosts gala events award ceremonies and special presentations. we host a large number of…

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5
Ghost River Theatre Society

Ghost River Theatre’s artistic mandate is to approach the creation of live performance in the spirit of collaboration – devising and presenting original Canadian theatre that is innovative accessible and highly theatrical. Our productions…

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6
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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7
Heritage Calgary

Advise city council on all matters relating to heritage resources in Calgary. Evaluating potential heritage sites and maintaining inventory of evaluated historic resources. Promoting public awareness of Calgary's heritage.

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8
The Citadel Theatre

The Citadel Theatre is recognized as a leader in Canadian theatre. We produce work of the highest quality premiere new plays develop the skills of professional artists invest in youth and families and contribute to the quality of life in…

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9
Calgary Public Library Foundation

The Calgary Public Library Foundation's sole purpose is to raise funds for the Calgary Public Library to enhance programs and services provided to Calgarians.

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10
Calgary Performing Arts Festival Society

An annual performing arts festival involving approximately 10 000 youth who have an opportunity to perform in front of a live audience and receive written and oral feedback from professional adjudicators in 17 different categories…

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11
Contemporary Calgary Arts Society

Public art gallery dedicated to the exhibition education and discussion of contemporary art including the presentation of curated exhibitions speaker series publications public events and activities independently and in partnership with…

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12
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Young Women's Christian Association and the most unlike its peers is Glengarry Memorial Hospital. 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

29 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. 29 of the 31 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
18/29
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 budgetUNITED WAY — C$650,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetARTS COMMONS — C$397,500 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetST THOMAS UNITED CHURCH — C$112,100 over 8y, 3.2% of budgetCENTRE FOR AFFORDABLE WATER AND SANTITATION TECHNOLOGY — C$80,000 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetARTS COMMONS — C$71,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY — C$65,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$46,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO — C$34,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN CLUB OF CALGARY — C$26,000 over 8y, 4.9% of budgetCASA LUZ HOUSE OF LIGHT — C$19,000 over 8y, 4.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES — C$19,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD — C$16,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA — C$12,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$11,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TOWNSHIPS — C$9,000 over 8y, 3.9% of budgetTHE BANFF CENTRE — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetGLENGARRY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHEATRE CALGARY — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONE YELLOW RABBIT — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDOWNSTAGE PERFORMANCE SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetALBERTA THEATRE PROJECTS — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAQUATARIUM AT TALL SHIPS LANDING — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY COMMUNITIES AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S SHELTER — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLORD STRATHCONA'S HORSE REGIMENTAL SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds ARTS COMMONS ↗
  • Who funds ST THOMAS UNITED CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE FOR AFFORDABLE WATER AND SANTITATION TECHNOLOGY ↗
  • Who funds ARTS COMMONS ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds SICK KIDS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO ↗
  • Who funds SAMARITAN CLUB OF CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds CASA LUZ HOUSE OF LIGHT ↗
  • Who funds RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ↗
  • Who funds INN FROM THE COLD ↗
  • Who funds YWCA ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds THE TOWNSHIPS ↗
  • Who funds THE BANFF CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds GLENGARRY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE CALGARY ↗
  • Who funds ONE YELLOW RABBIT ↗
  • Who funds DOWNSTAGE PERFORMANCE SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds ALBERTA THEATRE PROJECTS ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY PHILHARMONIC SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds AQUATARIUM AT TALL SHIPS LANDING ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY COMMUNITIES AGAINST SEXUAL ABUSE ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY WOMEN'S SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds CALGARY JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds LORD STRATHCONA'S HORSE REGIMENTAL SOCIETY ↗

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 FoundationRozsa FoundationCenovus Employee Foun…The Flanagan Foundati…United Way of Calgary…Calgary Shaw Charity …Harry and Martha Cohe…Aqueduct FoundationThe Edmonton Communit…Carthy FoundationThe Hotchkiss Family …The Burns Memorial Fu…
The Calgary FoundationAB13.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Rozsa Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · The Flanagan Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Carthy Foundation · The Hotchkiss Family Foundation · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children

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 31 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 851264903:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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