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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Three Sisters Charitable Foundation

To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and interest therefrom from time to time to qualified donnees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of the income tax act (canada).

C$489k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$458k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$9k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$22k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$458k
C$12,200
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$16M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RENFREW EDUCATION SERVICES FOUNDATIONC$458,000
RENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SOCIETYC$12,200
TOWN OF VEGREVILLEC$10,000
UNICEF CANADAC$8,500
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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.7M · 8 repeat orgsC$110k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +40% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
18

Total granted

C$1.7M
C$110k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+40%

Still filing today

63%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • RE
    RENFREW EDUCATION SERVICES FOUNDATION
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +143% · 34% of their budget
  • U
    UNICEF
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$88k · revenue +129%
  • RE
    RENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SOCIETY
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$61k · revenue +10%

Funded once

  • SF
    Sickkids Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$20k · revenue +30%
  • CV
    COLUMBIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +62%
  • CF
    CALGARY FLAMES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +67%

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 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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2
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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3
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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4
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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5
Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation

Charitable status was received on April 1 2018 and CAHF has been in a set up phase since that time. In this current fiscal year there has been activity related to preparing to deliver charitable activities which can be described as…

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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
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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8
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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9
Calgary Public Library Foundation

The Calgary Public Library Foundation's sole purpose is to raise funds for the Calgary Public Library to enhance programs and services provided to Calgarians.

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10
Calgary Police Foundation

The calgary police foundation (cpf)operates under the name of the calgary police youth foundation. it's purpose is to educate youth about good citizenship safe communities policing and avoiding victimization and criminality. cpf does this…

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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
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Movember Canada. 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

22 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. 22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
21/22
Grantees still filing
20/22
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 budgetRENFREW EDUCATION SERVICES FOUNDATION — C$1,414,968 over 7y, 34% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetUNICEF — C$88,240 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRENFREW EDUCATIONAL SERVICES SOCIETY — C$60,615 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA CHILDRENS HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSickkids Foundation — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA VALLEY COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetCALGARY FLAMES FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY HEATH TRUST — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCalgary Women's Emergency Shelter Association — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDRESS FOR SUCCESS — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCALGARY BOARD OF EDUCATION — C$8,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRAL OKANAGAN COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — C$5,112 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION MATTERS CBE — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOVEMBER FOUNDATION — C$1,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Sport Connection — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN ONLINE GIVING FOUNDATION — C$400 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.

United Way of Calgary…The Calgary FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…Cenovus Employee Foun…The Wagemakers Founda…Carthy FoundationAtco Electric EpicCharitable Gift Funds…Canada GivesAqueduct FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
United Way of Calgary and AreaAB10.7× affinity9 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · The Wagemakers Foundation · Carthy Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Canada Gives · Aqueduct Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation

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 798688727:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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