How much did United Way of Calgary and Area grant in FY2024?

United Way of Calgary and Area reported 904 grants totaling C$33,617,974 in its FY2024 T3010 return.

Where is United Way of Calgary and Area based?

United Way of Calgary and Area is based in CALGARY, AB.

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Calgary, AB · Public foundation

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.

C$34M

Granted FY2024still arriving

904

Grants FY2024still arriving

Regions reached

C$1.9M

Largest

01What you fund

01FY2024 · 904 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

Under C$10k652 grants · C$1.2M
C$10k–50k118 grants · C$2.4M
C$50k–250k102 grants · C$11M
C$250k+32 grants · C$19M

C$1,784

Median grant

Regions reached

C$100M

Total assets

Largest grants
Recipient	Amount
TRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT	C$1,931,006
TRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT	C$1,553,308
CARYA SOCIETY OF CALGARY	C$1,069,956
DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY	C$1,042,238
MOMENTUM	C$939,000
KINDRED CONNECTIONS SOCIETY	C$885,127
YMCA CALGARY	C$838,367
RISE CALGARY RESOURCE CENTRES SOCIETY	C$762,692
CITY OF CALGARY	C$737,413
RISE CALGARY RESOURCE CENTRES SOCIETY	C$637,607
CALGARY COUNSELLING CENTRE	C$635,700
HULL SERVICES	C$518,812
FEAR IS NOT LOVE SOCIETY	C$515,940
YWCA	C$499,999
VIBRANT COMMUNITIES CGY	C$499,999

02The need

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Alberta

C$31M

Ontario

C$1.4M

British Columbia

C$237k

Saskatchewan

C$32k

Manitoba

C$31k

New Brunswick

C$15k

Quebec

C$15k

Nova Scotia

C$5k

Newfoundland and Labrador

C$2k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.

C$290M · 1641 repeat orgsC$12M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

1641 repeat relationships — 662 still active in FY2024, 979 since wound down; 78 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

1641

281

Total granted

C$290M

C$8.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%

+16%

Still filing today

94%

66%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 89% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3.7M went to new ones.

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

BG
Boys & Grils Clubs of Calagary
8× · 2017–2024 · C$22M · revenue +73% · 33% of their budget
MC
Momentum Community Economic Development Society
8× · 2017–2024 · C$14M · revenue +20%
DC
Distress Centre Calgary
7× · 2017–2024 · C$8.0M · revenue +138% · 29% of their budget

Funded once

DC
Distress Centre
one grant, 2020 · C$1.2M
BG
Boys & Girls Clubs of Calgary
one grant, 2022 · C$786k · revenue -25%
CD
CALGARY DROP-IN & REHAB CENTRE SOCIETY
one grant, 2019 · C$583k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your field

03the grantee network

1853 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. 1853 of the 2,000 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.

Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)

518

Early backer (in before they grew)

1774/1853

Grantees still filing

1285/1853

Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing

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 Inter-Faith Food Bank SocietyAB25.9× affinity101 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Calgary Flames Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · Viewpoint Foundation · The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - 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.

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