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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

Unitarian Church of Calgary

Calgary Unitarians offer weekly worship services and a religious exploration program for children and youth.

C$11k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$882
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$1.3M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Skipping Stone Scholarship FoundationC$2,672
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of CalgaryC$1,243
Child Haven InternationalC$1,242
Inn From the Cold SocietyC$1,085
Canadian Unitarian CouncilC$1,081
Urban Society for Aboriginal YouthC$882
End of the Rainbow FoundationC$783
Flaming Chalice InternationalC$665
Industrial Areas FoundationC$497
Calgary Interfaith CouncilC$294
Knox Presbyterian ChurchC$225
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.

79%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$45k · 15 repeat orgsC$12k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +106% since the first grant, against +57% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
18

Total granted

C$45k
C$9k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+106%
+57%

Still filing today

93%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k 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

  • CU
    Canadian Unitarian Council
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$7k · revenue +240%
  • IA
    Industrial Areas Foundation Canada
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$4k · revenue +132%
  • SS
    Skipping Stone Scholarship Foundation
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$4k · revenue +169%

Funded once

  • KA
    Kerby Assembly
    one grant, 2022 · C$940 · revenue -21%
  • EF
    Elizabeth Fay Societygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$801 · revenue +25%
  • CF
    CENTRE FOR SEXUALITY SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$775 · 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
Green Calgary Association

Green Calgary is a leading urban environmental charity supporting Calgarians in living a more sustainable life; helping them take actions in their homes workplace schools and communities. We deliver workshops on waste reduction water and…

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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
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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4
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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5
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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6
Calgary Humane Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The mission of the Society is to Protect Animals. Support People. Create A More Humane World. The Society offers services to the Calgary and surrounding areas in the sheltering and care of animals adoptions protection and investigation and…

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7
Calgary Drop-in & Rehab Centre Society

The Calgary Drop-In & Rehab Centre provides access to a spectrum of care that supports adults at risk of homelessness to the most independent living possible - including various emergency shelter programs and services and affordable and…

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8
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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9
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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10
Alberta Council for Environmental Education

Work collaboratively to advance environmental education in Alberta. Move environmental education from the margins to mainstream by harnessing youth voice to guide decision makers increasing students environmental and climate literacy and…

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11
Arusha Centre Society

The Arusha Centre inspires and supports communities to connect gather and create socially economically and environmentally. Calgary Dollars is Calgary's complementary currency system started by the Arusha Center in 1995 that brings…

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12
Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society

Calgary Spay Neuter Assistance Society supplies funding primarily to Qualified Donees that support spay and neuter assistance programs in Calgary and surrounding areas.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Women's Centre of Calgary and the most unlike its peers is Knox Presbyterian Church. 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

34 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. 34 of the 37 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
27/34
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 budgetCanadian Unitarian Council — C$7,240 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetIndustrial Areas Foundation Canada — C$4,491 over 6y, 1.9% of budgetSkipping Stone Scholarship Foundation — C$4,436 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetInn From the Cold Society — C$4,371 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetChild Haven International — C$3,867 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetFLAMING CHALICE INTERNATIONAL — C$2,647 over 3y, 1.1% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$2,565 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetAwo Taan Healing Lodge Society — C$2,404 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetThe Climate Reality Project Canada — C$2,383 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$2,349 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Young People's Theater — C$2,042 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetUSC Canada — C$1,792 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUrban Society for Aboriginal Youth — C$1,679 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetUNICEF — C$1,410 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetAboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary — C$1,243 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKerby Assembly — C$940 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetElizabeth Fay Society — C$801 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEnd of the Rainbow Foundation — C$783 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCENTRE FOR SEXUALITY SOCIETY — C$775 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN'S CENTRE OF CALGARY — C$682 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Canadian Red Cross Society — C$670 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPET ACCESS LEAGUE SOCIETY (PALS) — C$669 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCanada Helps — C$547 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetImmigrant Services Calgary Society — C$524 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA ECO-TRUST FOUNDATION — C$463 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWestern Sky Land Trust — C$410 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCalgary Outlink: Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity — C$404 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCalgary Centre for Spiritual Living — C$388 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMEOW FOUNDATION — C$305 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Interfaith Council — C$294 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKnox Presbyterian Church — C$225 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetUNITARIAN CONGREGATION OF SASKATOON — C$200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAlberta Wilderness Association — C$188 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlberta Animal Rescue Crew Society — C$187 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.

The Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Atco Electric EpicCenovus Employee Foun…The Calgary Roman Cat…Kids Up Front Foundat…Nickle Family Foundat…Calgary Shaw Charity …Calgary Inter-Faith F…The Edmonton Communit…Aqueduct FoundationThe Peter Gilgan Foun…
The Calgary FoundationAB16.7× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Atco Electric Epic · Cenovus Employee Foundation · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Nickle Family Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Aqueduct Foundation · The Peter Gilgan 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 37 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 2024-07-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 130724834:2024-07-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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