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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Thomas J. Ranaghan Foundation

We carry out or support charity programs alone or with others for the benefit of the public at large.

C$17k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$6k
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.

C$2,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$414k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Franciscan & Friends (Music) MissionC$5,800
The Franciscans Mount St. Francis RetreatC$2,500
Fresh Oil & Fire Ministries SocietyC$2,500
God Squad Canada SocietyC$2,000
Terminator FoundationC$1,000
St. Mary'sC$1,000
The Salvation Army (Calgary)C$1,000
The QR77/Westin Hotel Calgary Children s FoundationC$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.

52%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$160k · 10 repeat orgsC$145k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +5% since the first grant, against -3% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
14

Total granted

C$160k
C$143k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+5%
-3%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’24
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

  • MS
    Mount St. Francis Retreat
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$11k · revenue +47%
  • IA
    IMMANUEL ASSEMBLY OF GOD
    2× · 2018–2022 · C$9k · revenue +5%
  • ÉP
    Église pour la diffusion de l'Évangile de Kangirsuk
    2× · 2021–2022 · C$7k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • SP
    Sylvan Prayer Centre
    one grant, 2020 · C$60k · revenue -97%
  • SM
    ST MARY'S UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$45k · revenue +48%
  • SG
    Sunrise Gospel Association
    one grant, 2021 · C$16k · revenue -51%

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 Gospel Outreach

To promote and spread the teachings of the gospels

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2
Christ Embassy Calgary

Religious and Spiritual services Jesus Christ missionary work

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3
Calvary Grace Church of Calgary

Christian ministry and outreach

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4
Summit Global Ministries - Edmonton

Preaching the gospel prayer meetings worship services training and overseeing other pastors and churches planting churches ordaining pastors missions work within Canada and the world.

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5
Seed of the Lamb Ministries Edmonton

Evangelism Teaching Preaching Church Ministry Home Ministry Conferences Feeding the homeless Street ministry

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6
River Rock Ministries

Conduct worship services on Sundays at Evangelistic outreach in Calgary Promote Christian values and principles in society

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7
Godway International Ministry Edmonton Alberta

I) advancing promoting and preaching the teachings of the christian religion and faith in accordance with the christian bible. ii) advancing christian religion by establishing maintaining and supporting places of worship and retreat…

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8
Glorious Reign Ministries International Calgary

The prophetic and healing mandate

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9
Contend Canada Ministries - Calgary

Worship & prayer events within the City of Calgary and Province of Alberta. Worship & prayer events throughout Canada. Short-term international missions trips.

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10
Fire in the Bush Ministries Edmonton

Evangelism Teaching Preaching Church Ministry Home Ministry Conferences Workshops Community Outreach Young Adult Ministries

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11
Calvary International Canada

Evangelistic outreach ministerial training biblical training biblical seminars and various other forms of missionary and social work

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12
Calgary for Christ Ministrys

Wednesday Bible Study Friday Prayer Meetings Sunday morning Church Services Limited Outreach Events

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Immanuel Assembly of God Church of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is The Tri Terminator Foundation. 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

25 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. 25 of the 26 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
11/25
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 budgetMaranatha Evangelistic Association — C$70,500 over 3y, 3.4% of budgetSylvan Prayer Centre — C$60,000 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetST MARY'S UNIVERSITY — C$45,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetFAITH EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH — C$31,500 over 3y, 6.8% of budgetSunrise Gospel Association — C$15,500 over 1y, 12% of budgetFranciscan & Friends (Music) Mission — C$11,300 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetMount St. Francis Retreat — C$11,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetIMMANUEL ASSEMBLY OF GOD — C$8,500 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetÉglise pour la diffusion de l'Évangile de Kangirsuk — C$6,500 over 2y, 3.2% of budgetFresh Oil & Fire Ministries Society — C$6,500 over 2y, 5.1% of budgetGOD SQUAD CANADA SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetThe Salvation Army Community Services (Calgary) — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetTHE QR77/WESTIN HOTEL CALGARY CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetASCENSION PARISH — C$3,500 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetAPOSTOLIC YOUTH MINISTRIES INTERNATIONAL — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSeedCare International Ministries — C$3,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetFULL GOSPEL BUSINESS MEN'S FELLOWSHIP IN CANADA (1977) — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Power of the Word Evangelistic Association — C$2,500 over 1y, 31% of budgetGlobal PartnerLink Society — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY LA SOCIÉTÉ CANADIENNE DE LA C — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetS.A.FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetESK OMI MISSION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTerminator Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCalgary Senior's Resource Society — C$500 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.

Rc Diocese of CalgaryThe Calgary FoundationCentre Street ChurchThe Alberta Knights o…Living Water Pipeline…Link Charity Canada I…United Way of Calgary…Canadian National Chr…Canada GivesBenefAction FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Abundance Canada
Rc Diocese of CalgaryAB11× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Rc Diocese of Calgary · The Calgary Foundation · Centre Street Church · The Alberta Knights of Columbus Charitable Foundation · Living Water Pipeline Ministries · Link Charity Canada Inc · United Way of Calgary and Area · Canadian National Christian Foundation · Canada Gives · BenefAction Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Abundance Canada

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 26 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 108106014:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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