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Cochrane, AB · Private foundation

Totem Charitable Foundation

Research to determine qualified donees for the Foundation

C$499k
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$90k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k20 grants · C$82k
  • C$10k–50k20 grants · C$277k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$140k
C$10,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Route 22 Artist Collective Ltd.C$90,000
TOWN OF COCHRANEC$50,000
RIVER VALLEY SCHOOL SOCIETY CALGARYC$33,333
FRESH START RECOVERY CENTREC$25,000
GREENWOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD PLACE SOCIETYC$25,000
CALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ASSOCIATION/ FEAR IS NOT LC$20,000
WELLSPRING CALGARYC$16,000
ROCKY VIEW SCHOOL DIVISION 41C$13,000
AIRDRIE P.O.W.E.R.C$12,500
AUTISM ASPERGERS FRIENDSHIP SOCIETYC$12,500
IHUMAN YOUTH SOCIETYC$10,000
HELPING HANDS SOCIETY OF COCHRANE AND AREAC$10,000
SAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$10,000
THE BETHANY CARE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATIONC$10,000
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.

87%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.7M · 55 repeat orgsC$401k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against +15% for the ones you funded once.

55 repeat relationships — 28 still active in FY2024, 27 since wound down; 14 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

55
40

Total granted

C$2.7M
C$314k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
+15%

Still filing today

87%
95%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$87k 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

  • CA
    Cochrane Activettes Food Bank
    6× · 2017–2022 · C$145k · revenue +63%
  • HH
    HELPING HANDS SOCIETY OF COCHRANE AND AREA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$139k · revenue ×16 · 54% of their budget
  • CW
    CALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ASSOCIATION/ FEAR IS NOT L
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$126k · revenue +43%

Funded once

  • CD
    COCHRANE & DISTRICT AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +2%
  • RU
    ROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$25k · revenue +18%
  • HT
    HEAVENS TO BETSY
    one grant, 2023 · C$24k · 70% of their budget

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 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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2
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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3
Autism Society Alberta

Education and peer support - assisting families that are experiencing autism in their family unit. Matching more experienced members to mentor new members. Improving understanding of autism throughout the province of Alberta. Provide…

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4
Beam Foundation

BEAM Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of kids & youth in Calgary Alberta. Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable wellness programs to children and youth who are…

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5
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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6
Change Health Alberta

Runs a camp which aims to reconnect famililes and children with healthy active lifestyles through a series of educational programming in alberta

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7
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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8
Variety-the Children's Charity of Alberta Association

The charity supports children who are living with disabilities and specialized needs in our communities. Through education advocacy direct support and community outreach we support children who are facing physical developmental emotional…

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9
Calgary Therapeutic Riding Association

Our therapeutic riding programs provide unforgettable experiences and can benefit participants physically cognitively and socially.

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10
Alberta Spine Foundation

The objective of the asf is to advance the delivery of spine care in alberta through innovative clinical care focused education and academic collaboration.

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11
Inside Education Society of Alberta

Inside Education programs aim to create generations of engaged citizens who understand the important relationships betweenenvironment economy and society and who think critically and creatively about environmental topics and actively…

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12
Als Society of Alberta

The als society of alberta is a charitable organization dedicated to making each day the best possible day for people living with and affected by als (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis) across the province of alberta. we achieve our mission by…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Autism Aspergers Friendship Society of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Oxbow Health Care Auxiliary. 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

99 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. 99 of the 109 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.

6
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
22
Early backer (in before they grew)
99/99
Grantees still filing
62/99
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 budgetCochrane Activettes Food Bank — C$145,000 over 6y, 8.3% of budgetHELPING HANDS SOCIETY OF COCHRANE AND AREA — C$139,000 over 8y, 54% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ASSOCIATION/ FEAR IS NOT L — C$125,500 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetGREENWOOD NEIGHBOURHOOD PLACE SOCIETY — C$119,500 over 8y, 11% of budgetCALGARY FOUNDATION — C$107,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetROCKY VIEW SCHOOL DIVISION 41 — C$102,702 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCOLUMBIA VALLEY GREENWAYS TRAIL ALLIANCE — C$100,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSpray Lakes Sawmills Recreation Park Society — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetPanorama Foundation Society — C$94,100 over 8y, 34% of budgetEls for Autism Canada — C$92,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetWELLSPRING CALGARY — C$82,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$76,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BETHANY CARE FOUNDATION — C$75,500 over 7y, 1.3% of budgetRIVER VALLEY SCHOOL SOCIETY CALGARY — C$66,666 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetGlenbow Ranch Park Foundation — C$60,000 over 2y, 39% of budgetFRESH START RECOVERY CENTRE — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY COMMUNITY SERVICES (CALGARY) — C$50,000 over 6y, 4.6% of budgetSUNDRE & DISTRICT NUTRITION FOR LEARNING — C$46,000 over 3y, 28% of budgetTHE CANADIAN RED CROSS SOCIETY — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetBOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF COCHRANE AND AREA — C$40,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetAIRDRIE P.O.W.E.R. — C$37,500 over 3y, 8.8% of budgetCarnduff District Food Bank Inc. — C$35,000 over 6y, 29% of budgetThe Association for the Rehabilitation of the Brain Injured — C$34,192 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetAUTISM ASPERGERS FRIENDSHIP SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$27,500 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetInternational Centre for Development Learning Society — C$25,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetROYAL UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHEAVENS TO BETSY — C$23,500 over 1y, 70% of budgetIHUMAN YOUTH SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetBIB BROTHER BIG SISTERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY AND AREA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCOCHRANE WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetCALGARY PUBLIC LIBRARY FOUNDATION — C$17,500 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetJANUS ACADEMY SOCIETY — C$16,400 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetKIWANIS CLUB OF COCHRANE AND AREA — C$16,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPARKINSON ASSOCIATION OF ALBERTA — C$15,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetTrickster Theatre Society — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetTHE DOORWAY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST TIMOTHY JR/SR HIGH SCHOOL — C$14,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOOD'S HOMES — C$13,980 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHMOUNT KIWANIS CLUB OF CALGARY CHARITABLE TRUST — C$12,500 over 3y, 23% of budgetAlberta Institute for Wildlife Conservation — C$12,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetHELPING FAMILIES HANDLE CANCER — C$11,000 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetSENIORS FOR KIDS SOCIETY — C$11,000 over 3y, 8.3% of budgetCalgary Meals on Wheels — C$10,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLIVING LAKES CANADA SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSAFE HAVEN FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOCHRANE HISTORICAL & ARCHIVAL PRESERVATION SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 7.0% of budgetCOCHRANE & AREA VICTIM SERVICES SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.2% 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.

Calgary Flames Founda…The Calgary FoundationCenovus Employee Foun…Atco Gas Employees' C…Hunter Family Foundat…Calgary Shaw Charity …Atco Electric EpicAllard Foundation Ltd.United Way of Calgary…Nickle Family Foundat…Rotary Club of Calgar…Harry and Martha Cohe…
Calgary Flames FoundationAB26.9× affinity27 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Flames Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Hunter Family Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Allard Foundation Ltd. · United Way of Calgary and Area · Nickle Family Foundation · Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund · Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation

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 109 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 818431348:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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