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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Trico Charitable Foundation

The purpose of the foundation is to make donations to qualified donees within the meaning of the income tax act ( canada) and in doing so to donate all of the reserves to the relief of poverty the advancement of education and other purposes of a charitable nature beneficial to any community as a whole.

C$917k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$79k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$833k
C$24,573
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$500,000
BOW VALLEY COLLEGEC$333,333
THE CALGARY JOHN HOWARD SOCIETYC$25,000
WOMEN IN NEED SOCIETY OF CALGARYC$24,573
CENTRE FOR NECOMERS SOCIETY OF CALGARYC$15,000
CALGARY ALPHA HOUSE SOCIETYC$14,500
PARACHUTES FOR PETSC$4,650
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.0M · 14 repeat orgsC$1.7M to everyone else

14 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

14
29

Total granted

C$5.0M
C$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
97%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$3.0M · revenue +4%
  • BV
    BOW VALLEY COLLEGE
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$667k · revenue +12%
  • MR
    Mount Royal University Foundation
    3× · 2017–2020 · C$535k · revenue +15%

Funded once

  • CS
    CALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$710k · revenue -23%
  • TC
    Trico Centre for Family Wellness
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue +4%
  • VN
    VANCOUVER NATIVE HOUSING SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$100k · revenue +35%

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 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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3
Calgary Learns Association

The Alberta Government funds the Provincial Community Adult Learning Program (CALP). It is the role of individual CALPs across the province to ensure the delivery of part-time non-formal literacy and foundational learning opportunities to…

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4
Calgary Dream Centre

The calgary dream centre's programs provide recovery-oriented training vocational training and housing opportunities to those experiencing addiction and homelessness. at the calgary dream centre people are given the resources and…

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5
Cups Calgary Society

CUPS supports Calgarians impacted by poverty trauma and systemic marginalization with a unique integrated approach to care. We empower people to work holistically to create and achieve goals that support their well-being and build…

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6
Trades Guild

Trades Guild proposes to help meet labor demand by getting low income and unemployed Calgarians at-risk of homelessness 'work ready.' In order to help meet industry demand return people to work and in some cases help people enter the labor…

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7
Homespace Society

Homespace society is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to creatively apply expertise to increase and manage the number of affordable and specialized housing units in calgary

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8
United Way of Calgary and Area

United way of calgary and area is a 100% local charity that brings together donors corporations agencies and government to solve complex issues and improve lives. we strategically invest in local agencies and collaboratives to create…

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9
Casa Mental Health

CASA Mental Health delivers holistic culturally safe wrap-around mental health services to Albertans aged 3 - 18 and their families. Major programs include Residential and Day Programs that consist of CASA House Preschool Day Programs…

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10
The Calgary Bridge Foundation for Youth

The Calgary Bridge Foundation for Youth (CBFY) is a youth-centered and family-focused non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the well-being of newcomer children youth and families. CBFY fosters a welcoming and inclusive…

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11
The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary an Alberta Society

The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary aims to prevent harm and neglect to all children and to build strong families through support services respite programs and a crisis nursery in and around Calgary. The programs offered by the…

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12
Y.E.S.S.: Youth Emergency Shelter Society of Edmonton

Based in Edmonton Youth Empowerment & Support Services (YESS) provides 24/7 singe-point-of-access to immediate and low-barrier physical mental cultural and emotional health supports and safe places to stay for youth aged 15-21 who are…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Calgary John Howard Society and the most unlike its peers is Ambrose University. 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

44 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/44
Grantees still filing
35/44
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$3,000,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY STAMPEDE FOUNDATION — C$710,000 over 1y, 6.2% of budgetBOW VALLEY COLLEGE — C$666,666 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetMount Royal University Foundation — C$535,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetJ.W. MCCONNELL FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$202,749 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$174,573 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetFurniture Bank — C$125,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetMomentrum Community Economic Development Society — C$110,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetTrico Centre for Family Wellness — C$100,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetVANCOUVER NATIVE HOUSING SOCIETY — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetShorefast Foundation — C$100,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetStrathcona Tweedsmuir School — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCALGARY COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$75,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetROOTS OF EMPATHY — C$75,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER ASSOCIATION — C$55,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALGARY DROP-IN & REHAB CENTRE SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRE FOR SEXUALITY — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY MEALS ON WHEELS — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetCENTRE FOR NEWCOMERS SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$42,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY ALPHA HOUSE SECIETY — C$39,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetVETERANS ASSOCIATION FOOD BANK — C$27,500 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCALGARY YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLINKAGES SOCIETY OF ALBERTA — C$25,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetLEFTOVERS FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMCMAN YOUTH FAMILY & COMMUNITY SERVICES ASSOCIATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNEXT STEP MINISTRIES SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetTHE CALGARY JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetJane Goodball Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetEDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMARS DISCOVERY DISTRICT — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetACCA LEADERSHIP FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetPARACHUTES FOR PETS — C$12,594 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWEST ISLAND COLLEGE SOCITY OF ALBERTA — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARY — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetWINDMILL MICROLENDING — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetASSIST COMMUNITY SERVICES CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN CED NETWORK — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BRENDA STAFFORD SOCIETY FOR THE PREVENTION OF FAMILY VIO — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY FAMILY THERAPY CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCALGARY IMMIGRANT WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetIMAGINE CANADA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAMBROSE UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 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.

Carthy FoundationThe Calgary FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…United Way of Calgary…Hunter Family Foundat…The Burns Memorial Fu…Cenovus Employee Foun…Nickle Family Foundat…Atco Electric EpicSt Paul's Anglican Ch…Calgary Homeless Foun…The Rotary Club of Ca…
Carthy FoundationAB20.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Carthy Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Hunter Family Foundation · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · St Paul's Anglican Church · Calgary Homeless Foundation · The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund

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 44 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 815391354:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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