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Canadian charities

Calgary, AB · Private foundation

The Wettstein Family Foundation

Limited to making gifts to qualified donees as defined in the Income Tax Act (Canada.

C$250k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$75k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$160k
C$20,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$1.1M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Renfrew Educational Services SocietyC$100,000
CW Asia Fund FoundationC$60,000
Inn From the Cold SocietyC$25,000
Island Arts Centre SocietyC$20,000
MMF FoundationC$20,000
Calgary Food BankC$10,000
National Access Arts CentreC$5,000
Downstage Performance SocietyC$5,000
Calgary Food BankC$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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$908k · 15 repeat orgsC$146k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
7

Total granted

C$908k
C$36k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+80%
+138%

Still filing today

87%
71%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$110k 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

  • IF
    Inn From the Cold Society
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$190k · revenue +40%
  • CF
    Calgary Food Bank
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$105k · revenue +80%
  • CW
    C W Asia Fund Foundation
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$100k · revenue +185%

Funded once

  • SS
    Salt Spring Arts Councilgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +63%
  • CH
    Childrens Hospital Aid Society
    one grant, 2017 · C$5k · revenue +1%
  • PC
    PALLIATIVE CARE SOCIETY OF THE BOW VALLEYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue ×17

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 Arts Academy Foundation

In support of the calgary arts academy society to advance arts immersion in education so support capital endeavors for the society.

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4
Calgary International Fringe Festival Society

The Calgary Fringe strives to support all artists of any discipline by offering opportunities that offer a hand up and not a hand out. We strive to offer Calgarians an opportunity to built community through the theatrical and performing…

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5
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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6
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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7
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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8
The Calgary Allied Arts Foundation

(1) caaf residency: the residency program offers studio space as well as monthly bursary to emerging artists in one to three month durations. (2) gallery 505: public gallery space featuring artist work or pieces from the civic art…

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9
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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10
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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11
Community Foundation of Central Alberta

The foundation is a community catalyst committed to growing a legacy which strengthens the quality of life in red deer and central alberta. activities in support of their mission include: working with donors to enable them to meet their…

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12
Sage Theatre Society

To produce professional local theater to enhance the calgary aris oosyslom and to use that experience to provide young and emerging artists an opportunity to develop and showcase their skills and to launch their careers in the arts field.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Island Arts Centre Society (Artspring) and the most unlike its peers is The Governors of the University of Calgary. 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

23 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. 23 of the 25 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)
10
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/23
Grantees still filing
17/23
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 budgetInn From the Cold Society — C$190,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetCalgary Food Bank — C$105,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetC W Asia Fund Foundation — C$100,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetRenfrew Educational Services Society — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMMF Foundation — C$90,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetCultivate Canada — C$70,000 over 3y, 7.0% of budgetIsland Arts Center Society — C$49,000 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetLady Minto Hospital Foundation — C$41,000 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetSalt Spring National Art Prize — C$37,520 over 2y, 9.0% of budgetSalt Spring Island Foundation — C$30,000 over 4y, 5.6% of budgetThe Alex Community Health Centre — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBrown Bagging For Calgary Kids — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetUniversity of Calgary — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTheatre Calgary — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCowtown Opera Company Society — C$15,000 over 2y, 6.3% of budgetSalt Spring Arts Council — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetChildrens Hospital Aid Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPALLIATIVE CARE SOCIETY OF THE BOW VALLEY — C$5,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetB.C.Parks Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNational Access Arts Centre — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDownstage Performance Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCalgary Stampede Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBrandon Flock Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 12% 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 Calgary FoundationNicola Wealth Private…Salt Spring Island Fo…Aqueduct FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Raymond James Canada …The Victoria Foundati…Canada GivesCharitable Gift Funds…BenefAction FoundationVancouver FoundationBc Government Employe…
The Calgary FoundationAB10.5× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · Salt Spring Island Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The Victoria Foundation · Canada Gives · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Vancouver Foundation · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust

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 25 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 855538229:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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