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Grande Prairie, AB · Public foundation

United Way Alberta Northwest Society

Each fall the Society campaigns to raise funds.

C$50k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$16k
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.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k10 grants · C$34k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$16k
C$3,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$332k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY-TABANOC$16,000
GP COUNCIL ON AGING-MEALS ON WHEELSC$8,000
NORTH PEACE YOUTH SUPPORT ASSOCIATION-FAIRVIEWC$4,000
CENTRE FOR CREATIVE ARTSC$4,000
GRANDE PRAIRIE AND AREA SAFE COMMUNITIES COMMITTEEC$3,200
MUNICIPAL DISTRICT OF SPIRIT RIVER #133C$3,000
Individual grant recipientC$3,000
TOWN OF SPIRIT RIVER LIBRARY BOARDC$2,800
WAPITI COMMUNITY SUPPORT ASSOCIATIONC$2,000
FORT VERMILLION SUPPORT SERVICESC$2,000
Individual grant recipientC$2,000
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.8M · 34 repeat orgsC$507k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +35% since the first grant, against +5% for the ones you funded once.

34 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 29 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

34
70

Total granted

C$1.8M
C$485k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+35%
+5%

Still filing today

62%
6%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 56% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$22k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • TJ
    THE JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$180k · revenue +61%
  • BB
    BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS
    5× · 2017–2022 · C$168k · revenue +73% · 78% of their budget
  • TG
    THE GRANDE PRAIRIE AND AREA COUNCIL ON AGING
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$167k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • CF
    CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES
    one grant, 2021 · C$48k
  • N
    NORTHREACH
    one grant, 2021 · C$43k
  • FE
    FAMILY EDUCATION SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$43k

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
Grande Prairie Family Education Society

Family resource network healthy families program parent education programs fasd and family support program parent child assistance program (pcap) children and youth programing.

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2
Grande Prairie and Area Safe Communities Committee

Car seat safety (child passenger safety) * home alone safety program (includes light first aid internet kitchen stranger and other safety topics to assist kids in learning to be safe and learn self-care) progressive agriculture safety days…

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3
Association of High Prairie and District Childrens' Resourcecouncil

Brighter futures program goodstart prenatal nutrition program family resource network - hub family resource network - stronger together home visitation program family resource network - brighter futures parent education program healthy…

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4
Grande Prairie Council for Lifelong Learning Society

Provided programs include adult learning programs and services in the areas of literacy career upgrading english as an additional language and public education.

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5
Grande Prairie Public Library

Provide public library service to the city of grande prairie and region.

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6
Big Brothers Big Sisters of Central Plains Inc.

1. we arrange and oversee the matching of little brothers and sisters to provide a more complete life for a child who has one or no parents. 2. we arrange and provide an in school mentoring for children who require additional one on one…

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7
Grande Prairie & District Burn Society
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8
High Prairie & District Museum and Historical Society

School programs senior and general public programs. community and school art shows. exhibits research and displays about local regional and national history.

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9
Grande Prairie & District Society for Christian Education

Independent schooling

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10
Great Plains College

Great Plains College provides Post-Secondary training adult upgrading and academic counseling as well as custom training classes.

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11
Grande Spirit Foundation

Representing 11 municipalities the grande spirit foundation provides affordable housing quality care and dignity to seniors and families in the grande prairie region. we are an non-profit organization operating 5 seniors lodges 15…

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12
Prairie Spirit School Division
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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Catholic Family Services Society of Grande Prairie and the most unlike its peers is Northreach Society. 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

26 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. 26 of the 110 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
25/26
Grantees still filing
20/26
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 budgetTHE JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE — C$179,660 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS — C$167,800 over 5y, 78% of budgetTHE GRANDE PRAIRIE AND AREA COUNCIL ON AGING — C$167,330 over 6y, 9.8% of budgetTHE COOL AND SOCIETY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE — C$99,000 over 6y, 6.7% of budgetCamp Tamarack Association — C$58,254 over 5y, 10% of budgetCENTRE FOR CREATIVE ARTS SOCIETY OF GRAND PRAIRIE — C$57,850 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetPARKINSON ALBERTA SOCIETY — C$53,050 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE AND DISTRICT GRIEF SUPPORT ASSOCIATION — C$47,400 over 4y, 22% of budgetCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE — C$44,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetSPINAL CORD INJURY ASSOCIATION ALBERTA — C$43,100 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetSOCIETY FOR SUPPORT TO PREGNANT AND PARENTING TEENS — C$38,350 over 4y, 2.6% of budgetThe Canadian National Institute for the Blind — C$37,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE AND DISTRICT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUND — C$33,250 over 4y, 4.5% of budgetP.A.C.E.(Providing Assistance, Counselling and Education on — C$29,250 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT — C$28,500 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetYMCA — C$22,800 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetHIV NORTH SOCIETY — C$19,600 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetNorth Peace Youth Support Association — C$18,800 over 2y, 19% of budgetStepping Stones Daycare Society — C$17,800 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetDISABLED TRANSPORTATION SOCIETY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE — C$16,500 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetHigh Prairie and District Food Bank Society — C$8,250 over 1y, 10% of budgetCoalition for Far Northwest Albert Brighter Futures Society — C$8,150 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSt. Johns United Anglican Church — C$5,740 over 2y, 9.3% of budgetGRANDE PRAIRIE YOUTH EMERGENCY SHELTER SOCIETY — C$5,500 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSt.James Cathedral Church — C$4,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetPeace River Regional Womens Shelter Society — C$3,800 over 1y, 0.3% 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.

  • Who funds THE JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE ↗
  • Who funds BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS ↗
  • Who funds THE GRANDE PRAIRIE AND AREA COUNCIL ON AGING ↗
  • Who funds THE COOL AND SOCIETY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE ↗
  • Who funds Camp Tamarack Association ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE FOR CREATIVE ARTS SOCIETY OF GRAND PRAIRIE ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON ALBERTA SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds GRANDE PRAIRIE AND DISTRICT GRIEF SUPPORT ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds CATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES SOCIETY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE ↗
  • Who funds SPINAL CORD INJURY ASSOCIATION ALBERTA ↗
  • Who funds SOCIETY FOR SUPPORT TO PREGNANT AND PARENTING TEENS ↗
  • Who funds The Canadian National Institute for the Blind ↗
  • Who funds GRANDE PRAIRIE AND DISTRICT CATHOLIC SCHOOLS EDUCATION FOUND ↗
  • Who funds P.A.C.E.(Providing Assistance, Counselling and Education on ↗
  • Who funds GRANDE PRAIRIE PUBLIC SCHOOL DISTRICT ↗
  • Who funds YMCA ↗
  • Who funds HIV NORTH SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds North Peace Youth Support Association ↗
  • Who funds Stepping Stones Daycare Society ↗
  • Who funds DISABLED TRANSPORTATION SOCIETY OF GRANDE PRAIRIE ↗

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.

Northwestern Alberta …Atco Electric EpicAlberta Blue Cross He…Abc Benefits Corporat…Edmonton Oilers Commu…United Way of the Alb…The Peace Wapiti Scho…The Canadian Red Cros…The Muttart FoundationAtco Gas Employees' C…United Way of Calgary…TELUS Friendly Future…
Northwestern Alberta FoundationAB22.4× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Northwestern Alberta Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Alberta Blue Cross Hearts of Blue · Abc Benefits Corporation Foundation · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · The Peace Wapiti School Division · The Canadian Red Cross Society / la Societe Canadienne de la Croix-Rouge · The Muttart Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · United Way of Calgary and Area · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur

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 110 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 131791790:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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