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Red Deer, AB · Public foundation

United Way of Central Alberta Society

United way central alberta listens to central albertan voices to determine today's needs an partners with citizens community agencies and businesses to address social issues and invest donor dollars into vital programs that support people in need across central alberta.

C$458k
Granted FY2023
32
Grants FY2023
2
Regions reached
C$175k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 32 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k21 grants · C$92k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$191k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$175k
C$6,366
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$1.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DESIGNATIONSC$174,610
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATIONC$45,493
RED DEER NATIVE FRIENDSHIP SOCIETYC$26,000
THE OUTREACH CENTREC$20,062
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RED DEERC$17,732
CENTRAL ALBERTA SAFE HARBOUR SOCIETYC$17,440
JOHN HOWARD SOCIETY OF RED DEERC$13,929
COSMOS COMMUNITY SUPPORT SERVICESC$13,494
CATHOLIC SOCIAL SERVICESC$12,990
FAMILY SERVICES OF CENTRAL ALBERTAC$12,213
BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OF RED DEERC$12,143
PONOKA YOUTH CENTRE ASSOCIATIONC$8,094
GOLDEN CIRCLE SENIOR RESOURCE CENTREC$7,465
SPINAL CORD INJURY ASSOCIATIONC$7,255
CENTRAL ALBERTA PREGNANCY CARE CENTRE SOCIETYC$6,858
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 85% of grant dollars (C$6.7M). The 15% that went abroad (C$1.2M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 15% of all-years giving (C$1.2M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

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.

94%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$7.4M · 36 repeat orgsC$481k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 29 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
28

Total granted

C$7.4M
C$478k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+17%

Still filing today

89%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 99% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • CM
    Canadian Mental Health Association
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$540k · revenue +3%
  • CA
    Central Alberta Women's Outreach Society
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$462k · revenue +32%
  • CA
    Central Alberta Safe Harbour Society
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$403k · revenue +103%

Funded once

  • DA
    Designations as per attached financial statements (Statement
    one grant, 2017 · C$246k
  • TM
    THE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT LENDING SOCIETY OF WEST
    one grant, 2021 · C$42k · revenue -17% · 32% of their budget
  • TM
    THE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$30k · revenue +19%

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

04Your 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
Southern Alberta Self-Help Association

Supports for adults with severe &/or persistent mental illness to achieve individual success through a continuum of supportive living options & services.

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2
Central Alberta Fasd Society

Assessment-and-diagnosis-of-fasd community-outreach-and-support restorative-justice-program education-and-prevention parent-and-child-assistance-program fasd-coaching-partnership emotional-support-groups

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3
Southern Alberta Community Living Association

We provide support to adults and children with disabilities through community connectors (roommate companions) renting a home or living in their natural home providing weekend respite having a host family provide respite or an associate…

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4
The Central Alberta Women's Emergency Shelter Society

Safe refuge for battered women and their children child support program intensive case management volunteer training public education/professional training emotional support safety planning risk assessment

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5
Centre for Autism Services Alberta

Intensive intervention and ECS programs for children youth teens and young adults with autism Family support services Therapeutic and recreational groups for children youth teens and young adults with autism Employment readiness and…

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6
Mountain Plains Family Service Society of Edmonton

Programs that place children referred by childrens services into foster homes and provide support to both the children and the foster family

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7
Alberta Home Visitation Network Association

Ahvna supported quality home visitation programs across alberta

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8
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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9
Society for Autism Support and Services (Calgary Region)

Services and supports for individuals with autism spectrum disorder and their families including: diagnostic and assessment services residential treatment toddler program early intervention and preschool programming consultation services…

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10
Chinook Sexual Assault Centre

Providing leadership advocacy and comprehensive services specific to victims of sexual violence within southwestern alberta.

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11
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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12
Learning Disabilities Association of Alberta-Red Deer Chapte

Information referral education public awareness service support and advocacy for persons

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Red Deer Native Friendship Society and the most unlike its peers is Magdalene House Society. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

59 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. 59 of the 67 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
57/59
Grantees still filing
41/59
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 Mental Health Association — C$539,703 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetCentral Alberta Women's Outreach Society — C$462,085 over 6y, 3.4% of budgetCentral Alberta Safe Harbour Society — C$403,231 over 6y, 2.6% of budgetTURNING POINT SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ALBERTA — C$346,255 over 6y, 7.0% of budgetJohn Howard Society of Red Deer — C$310,662 over 6y, 5.2% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters-Red Deer — C$307,934 over 6y, 14% of budgetCatholic Social Services — C$304,087 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetFamily Services of Central Alberta — C$296,483 over 6y, 8.5% of budgetSHALOM COUNSELLING CENTRE OF ALBERTA — C$282,414 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetBoys & Girls Club of Red Deer — C$234,418 over 6y, 4.9% of budgetCentral Alberta Refugee — C$230,568 over 5y, 1.8% of budgetRocky Youth Development Society — C$230,242 over 7y, 80% of budgetSPINAL CORD INJURY ASSOCIATION — C$180,115 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetSpinal Cord Injury Association — C$173,920 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetGolden Circle Senior Resource Centre — C$163,366 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetRed Deer Native Friendship Society — C$163,290 over 5y, 6.3% of budgetPonoka Youth Centre Association — C$154,145 over 6y, 6.6% of budgetKCS Association for Early Learning Special Needs & Family — C$148,481 over 6y, 2.4% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters-Ponoka & District — C$143,660 over 6y, 15% of budgetRed Deer Native Friendship Society — C$131,000 over 6y, 11% of budgetCentral Alberta Pregnancy Care Centre Society — C$115,374 over 6y, 2.3% of budgetAssociation of Communities Against Abuse — C$88,855 over 5y, 5.4% of budgetBashaw & District Support Services — C$87,949 over 5y, 4.9% of budgetHeartland Youth Centre — C$85,178 over 6y, 4.8% of budgetSundre & District Nutrition for Learning Society — C$80,750 over 3y, 50% of budgetTURNING POINT SOCIETY OF CENTRAL ALBERTA — C$69,101 over 4y, 57% of budgetPONOKA YOUTH CENTRE ASSOCIATION — C$68,469 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters -Lacombe & District — C$67,813 over 4y, 11% of budgetEpilepsy Association of Calgary — C$55,100 over 2y, 13% of budgetTHE MEDICAL EQUIPMENT LENDING SOCIETY OF WEST — C$42,039 over 1y, 32% of budgetCNIB — C$35,596 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetROCKY MOUNTAIN HOUSE AND DISTRICT WEST COUNTRY FAMILY — C$27,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetRONALD MCDONALDS HOUSE CHARITIES ALBERTA — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJunior Achievement of Southern Alberta — C$17,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetButt Ugly Anti-Tobacco Program Society — C$16,650 over 2y, 39% of budgetTHE LORD'S FOOD BANK — C$15,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetCentral Alberta Immigrant Women's Association — C$11,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetSTARLIGHT CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION CANADA — C$10,720 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GOOD SAMARITAN SOCIETY — C$5,900 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetStudent Legal Assistance Society (Calgary) — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetPro Bono Law Alberta Society — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCentral Alberta Legal Clinic Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetEdmonton Community Legal Centre — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetStudent Legal Services of Edmonton — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAGESSE DOMESTIC VIOLENCE PREVENTIVE SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSENIOR OUTREACH PROGRAM SOCIETY (THREE HILLS) — C$2,963 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetSHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE FOUNDATION — C$2,500 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.

Community Foundation …Red Deer Food Bank So…Atco Electric EpicBattle River Communit…Red Deer Gaetz Memori…The Muttart FoundationAtco Gas Employees' C…The Chinook's Edge Sc…Boston Pizza Foundati…United Way of Calgary…Kids Up Front Foundat…Lifelong Learning Cou…
Community Foundation of Central AlbertaAB26.8× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Community Foundation of Central Alberta · Red Deer Food Bank Society · Atco Electric Epic · Battle River Community Foundation · Red Deer Gaetz Memorial United Church · The Muttart Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · The Chinook's Edge School Division · Boston Pizza Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Kids Up Front Foundation (Calgary) · Lifelong Learning Council of Red Deer

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 67 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 2023-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 119278364:2023-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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