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Edmonton, AB · Private foundation

The Summit Foundation

THE SUMMIT FOUNDATION makes donations to various registered charitable organizations schools and foundation in support of their activities.

C$569k
Granted FY2020
10
Grants FY2020
3
Regions reached
C$313k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2020 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2020

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$20k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$55k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$181k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$313k
C$15,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MACEWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONC$312,500
PILGRIM'S HOSPICE SOCIETYC$125,000
THE EDMONTON CATHOLIC SEPARATE SCHOOL DIVISION NO.7C$56,000
UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$25,000
THE SALVATION ARMYC$15,000
HOPE MISSIONC$15,000
EDMONTON GLEANERS ASSOCIATIONC$5,000
VANCOUVER POLICE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
SIGN OF HOPEC$5,000
DREAMS FOR KIDSC$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.

81%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.8M · 11 repeat orgsC$409k to everyone else

11 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2020, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2020 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

C$1.8M
C$404k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+39%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2020, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20
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

  • MU
    MACEWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION
    2× · 2019–2020 · C$938k · revenue +39% · 25% of their budget
  • PH
    PILGRIM'S HOSPICE SOCIETY
    4× · 2017–2020 · C$265k · revenue +536%
  • TE
    THE EDMONTON CATHOLIC SEPARATE SCHOOL DIVISION NO.7
    3× · 2018–2020 · C$96k · revenue +14%

Funded once

  • MU
    MacEwan University
    one grant, 2017 · C$313k · revenue +15%
  • CR
    Canadian Red cross
    one grant, 2017 · C$50k · revenue -28%
  • BS
    BOYLE STREET COMMUNITY SERVICEgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +41%

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
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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3
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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4
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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5
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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6
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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7
Edmonton Realtors' Charitable Foundation

The foundation provides support to those in need by working with charities involved in: shelter homelessness hunger crime prevention and special projects.

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8
Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation

The alberta children's hospital foundation raises funds for excellence in child health research and family centred care. funding is provided to alberta health services and university of calgary for advanced pediatric research specialized…

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9
Rozsa Foundation

Build capacity in arts organizations in alberta through grants; arts management training and awards; undertake arts-related research and advocacy.

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10
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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11
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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12
Alberta Spine Foundation

The objective of the asf is to advance the delivery of spine care in alberta through innovative clinical care focused education and academic collaboration.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mental Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Varscona Theatre Alliance Society. 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

21 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.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
20/21
Grantees still filing
16/21
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 budgetMACEWAN UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$937,500 over 2y, 25% of budgetMacEwan University — C$312,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPILGRIM'S HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$265,000 over 4y, 10.0% of budgetThe Varscona Theatre — C$150,000 over 3y, 5.1% of budgetTHE EDMONTON CATHOLIC SEPARATE SCHOOL DIVISION NO.7 — C$96,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$85,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEDMONTON OPERA ASSOCIATION — C$65,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHope Mission - Herb Jamieson Centre — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$60,000 over 4y, 8.9% of budgetCanadian Red cross — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVancouver Police Foundation — C$32,500 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetBOYLE STREET COMMUNITY SERVICE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCASA FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetDREAMS FOR KIDS — C$10,000 over 2y, 36% of budgetSIGN OF HOPE — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetYouth Empowerment and Support Services — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetATIRA WOMEN'S RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDMONTON GLEANERS ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL ALEXANDRA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY OF ALBERTA AND NORTHWEST TERRITORIES — C$1,000 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.

The Edmonton Communit…Cam & Dawn Allard Fam…The Dianne and Irving…Edmonton Oilers Commu…Allard Foundation Ltd.Atco Electric EpicThe Stollery Charitab…Raymond James Canada …United Way of the Alb…McCoy Family Charity …Butler Family Foundat…Frank J. Flaman Found…
The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv ActAB13.9× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Cam & Dawn Allard Family Foundation · The Dianne and Irving Kipnes Foundation · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · Allard Foundation Ltd. · Atco Electric Epic · The Stollery Charitable Foundation · Raymond James Canada Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · McCoy Family Charity Foundation · Butler Family Foundation · Frank J. Flaman 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 21 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 2020-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2020. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 890470164:2020-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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