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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Watershed Foundation

THE WATERSHED FOUNDATION distributes income earned from its investment portfolio to various projects and charities in alberta related to social health and educational matters

C$224k
Granted FY2024still arriving
6
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$4k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$210k
C$50,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTAC$100,000
ALBERTA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$60,000
RUNDLE COLLEGE SOCIETYC$50,000
ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CALGARY POLICE YOUTH FOUNDATIONC$2,500
INN FROM THE COLD SOCIETYC$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.

80%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$616k · 3 repeat orgsC$159k to everyone else

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
4

Total granted

C$616k
C$45k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+63%

Still filing today

100%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 49% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$114k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’21’22’23’24
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

  • CS
    CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION
    2× · 2017–2021 · C$366k · revenue +205%
  • AC
    ALBERTA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$150k · revenue -3%
  • RC
    RUNDLE COLLEGE SOCIETY
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$100k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ALBERTA SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue +71%
  • KC
    KIDSPORT CANADA - ALBERTA
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k
  • WV
    WINDERMERE VALLEY YOUTH CENTREgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue +63%

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
Kids Brain Cancer Canada Inc.

The charity receives donations on-line. a grant of $10 000 was awarded to the alberta children’s hospital foundation in support of pediatric cancer research

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2
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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3
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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4
Calgary Rangers Foundation

The foundation was formed to alleviate financial barriers to participating in physical activity for children in need and raises funding for this program.

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5
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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6
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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7
Alberta Dreams Foundation

The alberta dreams foundation is a not-for-profit society dedicated to fulfilling wishes of alberta children with chronic or life threatening illnesses.

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8
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment…

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9
Hunter's Fight for a Cure Foundation of Alberta
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10
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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11
Ronald Mcdonald House Charities of Northern Alberta, an Alberta Society

Ronald McDonald House Charities Alberta supports families seeking vital medical treatment for their seriously ill or injured child. Our warm, compassionate Houses provide a home-away-from home for families who need to travel for medical…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Alberta Children's Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Windermere Valley Youth Centre. 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

10 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. 10 of the 11 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
4/10
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 budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$366,136 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetALBERTA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRUNDLE COLLEGE SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKIDS CANCER CARE FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES ALBERTA SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWINDERMERE VALLEY YOUTH CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetCOMPASSION CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY POLICE YOUTH FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD SOCIETY — 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.

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 11 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 826462319:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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