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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Wagemakers Foundation

Provide donations to various Calgary and area charities

C$52k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$8k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Alberta Children's Hospital FoundationC$7,500
KidSport CalgaryC$6,250
Education MattersC$6,000
YWCA BanffC$5,000
Shock Trauma Air Rescue Service FoundationC$5,000
Calgary Humane SocietyC$3,750
Alzheimer Society of CalgaryC$2,750
Wounded Warriors of CanadaC$2,500
St Gabriel the Archangel Catholic ParishC$2,500
Families Matter Society of CalgaryC$2,500
CMHA - AlbertaC$1,000
Pacekids Society for Children and Special NeedsC$1,000
Luna Child & Youth Advocacy CentreC$1,000
Lead FoundationC$1,000
Distress CentreC$1,000
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$308k · 26 repeat orgsC$45k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +45% for the ones you funded once.

26 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 9 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

26
23

Total granted

C$308k
C$40k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+45%

Still filing today

96%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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
    Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$46k · revenue +65%
  • ST
    Shock Traum Air Resuce Service Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$40k · revenue +45%
  • YB
    YWCA Banff
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$36k · revenue +67%

Funded once

  • KC
    KidSport Calgary
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k
  • PC
    Palliative Care Society of Bow Valleygraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue ×92 · 36% of their budget
  • SV
    St. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Churchgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +125%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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5
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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6
Evenstart for Children Foundation of Calgary

The foundation provides a centre based program for disadvantaged and at risk preschool aged children and their families as well as sponsorship program for children at risk who are referred by the community partners.

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7
Calgary Counselling Centre

1) Individual couples family and group counselling services to children youth and adults in distress. 2) Provide preventative counselling services for a wide range of personal needs. 3) We educate university students in counselling to…

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8
Alberta Caregivers Association

Alberta Caregivers Association (o/a Caregivers Alberta) is an organization of caregivers for caregivers. The mission is to empower caregivers and promote their wellbeing. They do so by providing group and one-on-one supports increasing…

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9
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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10
Calgary Drop-in & Rehab Centre Society

The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre provides access to a spectrum of care that supports adults at risk of homelessness to the most independent living possible - including various emergency shelter programs and services and affordable and…

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11
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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12
Calgary Learns Association

The Alberta Government funds the Provincial Community Adult Learning Program (CALP). It is the role of individual CALPs across the province to ensure the delivery of part-time non-formal literacy and foundational learning opportunities to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Families Matter Society of Calgary 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

49 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. 49 of the 53 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
16
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
38/49
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 budgetAlberta Children's Hospital Foundation — C$45,500 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetShock Traum Air Resuce Service Foundation — C$40,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYWCA Banff — C$35,500 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY CALGARY — C$30,550 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSt. Gabriel the Archangel Catholic Parish — C$18,125 over 7y, 1.8% of budgetFamilies Matter Society of Calgary — C$17,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetEducation Matters — C$16,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLead Foundation — C$11,750 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetCalgary Humane Society — C$11,375 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSheldon Kennedy Child Advocacy Centre — C$10,050 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRonald McDonald House Charities Alberta Society — C$7,600 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY FLAMES FOUNDATION — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetChildren's Cottage Society — C$6,550 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetDISCOVERY HOUSE — C$5,750 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Health Trust — C$5,375 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPalliative Care Society of Bow Valley — C$5,000 over 1y, 36% of budgetSt. Vladimir's Ukrainian Orthodox Church — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetEdmonton FireFighters Memorial Society — C$5,000 over 2y, 7.5% of budgetCalgary Police Youth Foundation — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBrown Bagging Calgary Kids — C$4,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetDEAF AND HEAR ALBERTA — C$3,300 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCentre for suicide prevention — C$2,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAlpha House Society — C$2,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetWounded Warriors of Canada — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY ROMAN CATHOLIC SEPARATE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMake A Wish Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Food Bank — C$1,750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's Centre of Calgary — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE ALEX COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLeftovers Foundation — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCentre for Newcomers — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelp From Canada — C$1,500 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetPacekids Society for Children and Special Needs — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Board of Education — C$1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Cancer Foundation — C$1,050 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDistress Centre — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCAMP CARMANGAY — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCalgary Outlink Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCMHA - Alberta — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCUPS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMiskanawah Community Services Association — C$1,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanLearn Society for Persons with Learning Difficulties — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARC Adolescent Recovery Centre — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Family Therapy Centre — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetStep by Step Early Intervention Society — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky Mountain Adaptive — C$500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetProstate Cancer Centre — C$250 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Gord Downie & Chanie Wenjack Fund — C$250 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.

Calgary Flames Founda…The Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Cenovus Employee Foun…Calgary Inter-Faith F…Atco Electric EpicKids Up Front Foundat…Nickle Family Foundat…Carthy FoundationChildren's Hospital A…Hunter Family Foundat…Place2Give Foundation
Calgary Flames FoundationAB22.3× affinity19 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Flames Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Atco Electric Epic · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Nickle Family Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Children's Hospital Aid Society · 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 53 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 2024-11-30, 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 888784816:2024-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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