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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Timber Ridge Charitable Foundation

The foundation focused on fundraising and evaluating charitable giving opportunities during the past year

C$25k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$2,500
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$2.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
QUEEN'S UNIVERSITYC$5,000
MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$2,500
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$2,500
CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATIONC$2,000
CANADAHELPS - SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$2,000
SUNRISE HEALING LODGE SOCIETYC$1,000
TRELLIS SOCIETYC$200
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$68k · 3 repeat orgsC$9k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +13% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
5

Total granted

C$68k
C$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+13%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 63% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$9k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’23’24
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

  • QU
    Queen's University
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$51k · revenue +27%
  • CS
    CALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$15k · revenue -35%
  • SH
    SUNRISE HEALING LODGE SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$2k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    one grant, 2024 · C$3k · revenue 0%
  • MA
    MAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF CANADA
    one grant, 2024 · C$3k · revenue 0%
  • CS
    CANADAHELPS - SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION OF CANADA
    one grant, 2024 · C$2k · revenue 0%

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
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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2
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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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
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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5
University of Saskatchewan

The University of Saskatchewan's primary role is to provide post-secondary instruction and research in humanities sciences and other areas of human intellectual cultural social and physical development. The University offers instructional…

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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
The University of Lethbridge

The University of Lethbridge educates at a post-secondary level in both Lethbridge and Calgary at undergraduate and graduate levels. The University conducts research in the Faculty of Arts and Science Business Fine Arts Education Health…

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10
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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11
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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12
St Mary's University

St. Mary’s University is an independent Catholic University that provides innovative teaching and research and offers accredited degrees in Liberal Arts Sciences and Education. Located on a historic site in Calgary Alberta StMU inspires…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Stampede Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Sunrise Healing Lodge 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

8 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
2/8
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetQueen's University — C$51,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMAKE A WISH FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSUNRISE HEALING LODGE SOCIETY — C$2,005 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAHELPS - SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRELLIS SOCIETY — C$200 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.

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 8 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 2024-02-28, 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 841600414:2024-02-28 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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