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C$23k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$5k
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$2,500
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$43k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
SOUTHERN FRANCOPHONE EDUCATION REGIONC$5,000
CALGARY ROMAN CATHOLIC SEPARATE SCHOOL DIVISIONC$4,000
THE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LAKELAND ROMAN CATHOLIC SEPARATE SCC$3,500
NORTHWEST SCHOOL DIVISION 203C$2,500
PRAIRIE VALLEY SCHOOL DIVISIONC$2,500
SOMMERFELD CHARITABLE TRUSTC$2,000
NORTHERN LIGHTS SCHOOL DIVISIONC$2,000
GADSBY CHARITABLE TRUSTC$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.

64%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$56k · 9 repeat orgsC$31k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +10% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
20

Total granted

C$56k
C$23k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+10%
+7%

Still filing today

89%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 64% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$8k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • NS
    NORTHWEST SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 203
    5× · 2019–2024 · C$9k · revenue +6%
  • PW
    PEACE WAPITI SCHOOL DIVISION
    3× · 2020–2022 · C$6k · revenue +15%
  • PV
    PRAIRIE VALLEY SD
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$6k · revenue +4%

Funded once

  • SE
    SOUTH EAST CORNERSTONE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 209
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue +6%
  • SM
    SAINT MARY'S UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k
  • CE
    CHINOOK EDGE SCHOOL DIVISION
    one grant, 2023 · C$2k · revenue +7%

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.

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The Wetaskiwin School Division
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2
High Prairie School Division No. 48

High Prairie School Division operates to the School Act and offers education to students from Kindergarten to Grade 12 in 12 schools

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3
Prairie Spirit School Division
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4
Border Land School Division

The division operates a kindergarten to grade 12 public education system in the south eastern area in the province of manitoba

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5
Prairie South School Division No. 210 of Saskatchewan

Provide pre-kindergarten to grade 12 services to saskatchewan schools.

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6
Red Deer Catholic Regional Division #39

K-12 public education

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7
The Board of Education of School District No. 5 (Southeast Kootenay)

K-12 School District operating 17 schools

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8
Black Gold School Division

Black Gold School Division provides training and instruction to approximately 12 300 students in Grades ECS to 12 through the operation of 32 schools.

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9
The Board of Education of School District No. 23 (Central Okanagan)

Enhancing education through the School Distruct

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10
Yellowknife Education District # 1

We are a public education school district. we educate children from preschool to grade 12. we follow the government of the northwest territories education act.

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11
The Red River Valley School Division

The Red River Valley School Division with the support of parents and the community strives to provide a learning environment that will allow our youth an opportunity to achieve their highest potential in a global environment.

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12
The Greater St. Albert Roman Catholic Separate School Division

Provide basic education as per provincial guidelines for students Kindergarten to Grade 12

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Northwest School Division No. 203 and the most unlike its peers is Gadsby Charitable Trust. 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

27 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. 27 of the 32 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)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
20/27
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 budgetSUNWEST SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 207 — C$10,000 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetNORTHWEST SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 203 — C$9,250 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE WAPITI SCHOOL DIVISION — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPRAIRIE VALLEY SD — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN LIGHTS SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 69 — C$5,500 over 2y, 68% of budgetCALGARY ROMAN CATHOLIC SEPARATE SCHOOL DIVISION — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetChinook School Division No. 211 — C$5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTHERN FRANCOPHONE EDUCATION REGION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LAKELAND ROMAN CATHOLIC SEPARATE SC — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSOUTH EAST CORNERSTONE PUBLIC SCHOOL DIVISION NO. 209 — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHINOOK EDGE SCHOOL DIVISION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSOMMERFELD CHARITABLE TRUST — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetCalgary Board of Education — C$1,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLESSED SACRAMENT SCHOOL — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPEACE RIVER SCHOOL DIVISION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHLANDS SD — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Thomas Aquinas Roman Catholic Regional Division #38 — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGADSBY CHARITABLE TRUST — C$1,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 49 — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVALHALLA SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE PRAIRIE LAND SCHOOL DIVISION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLiving Sky School Division No. 202 — C$750 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CALGARY JEWISH ACADEMY — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE BOARD OF EDUCATION OF SCHOOL DISTRICT NO. 27 (CARIBOU-CH — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRocky View School Division No.41 — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEDUCATION MATTERS — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGrande Yellowhead Public School Div. 77 — 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.

Indigo Love of Readin…Td Friends of the Env…Music Education Chari…Richardson Foundation…Cenovus Employee Foun…Cwb Welding FoundationThe Western Communiti…The Edmonton Communit…Club des petits déjeu…The Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la LectureON18.5× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Indigo Love of Reading Foundation/Fondation Indigo Pour L'Amour de la Lecture · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · Music Education Charity of Canada · Richardson Foundation Inc. /Fondation Richardson Inc. · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Cwb Welding Foundation · The Western Communities Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Club des petits déjeuners du Canada - Breakfast Club of Canada · The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · 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 32 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under support of schools and education.

Source object 791061518:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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