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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

Varsity Acres Presbyterian Church

Weekly worship services (in person and streamed to youtube) collected donations for the food bank provided space for gamblers anonymous english as a second language sunday school programs youth groups refugee support wedding funerals stephen ministries.

C$48k
Granted FY2024still arriving
3
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$36k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 3 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$775
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$47k
C$11,277
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Presbyterian Church in CanadaC$35,636
Presbytery of Calgary MacleodC$11,277
Veteran's Transition NetworkC$775
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$369k · 5 repeat orgsC$2k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +81% since the first grant, against +22% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
3

Total granted

C$369k
C$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+81%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • PC
    Presbyterian Church in Canada
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$139k · revenue +29%
  • PC
    Presbyterian Church in Canada
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$75k · revenue +117%
  • VT
    Veteran's Transition Network
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$2k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • WI
    Winnipeg Inner City Missions of the Presbyterian Churchgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$1k · revenue +81%
  • CK
    Camp Kannawin
    one grant, 2018 · C$1k · revenue +15%
  • CC
    CUPS CALGARY SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$200 · revenue +22%

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
Calgary Kasota Camp Society
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2
Calgary Community Church

Weekly worship services Bible Study Pastoral Care Food Program Free Summer camp for children in our community (VBS). Community Involvement with other churches in Montgomery and Bowness.

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3
Calgary Keys to Recovery Society

Calgary Keys to Recovery Society provides housing and case management services to at risk individuals upon their exit from addictions treatment.

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4
Camp Cadicasu Association of Calgary

Summer camp and winter camp for 8-17 year olds camp facility rental camp programs for k-12

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5
Teen Time of Edmonton

Summer camping programs for ages 8-17 throughout july & august. retreats for ages 8-17 throughout september-december january-june. city program for ages 12-17 in edmonton running every friday. leadership programs for ages 14-17

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6
Theatre Calgary

Professional theatre company

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7
Mosaic Ministries of Calgary

Christian ministries

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8
Canadian Veterans Services Society

The charity oeprates 4 food bank warehouses across alberta and british columbia. canadian veteran services society strives to support all military and first responder personnel by providing reliable and free food used clothing items…

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9
Synod of Alberta

The synod oversees and helps direct activities of the presbyterian churches in alberta and the north west territories. it also assists in the operation and administration of camp kannawin actively supports charitable activities and works…

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10
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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11
Alberta Camping Association

The Alberta Camping Association is the accreditation body for summer and youth camps in Alberta. We are committed to supporting camps provide high quality safe fun and inclusive experiences to all. Our standards ensure camps and parents…

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12
Calgary Narrative Collective

Provide barrier reduced counselling to at risk clients in the calgary area provide trainings to students and therapists on narrative therapy

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society and the most unlike its peers is Camp Kannawin Association. 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

8 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)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPRESBYTERIAN CHURCH IN CANADA — C$152,173 over 4y, 7.2% of budgetPresbyterian Church in Canada — C$138,778 over 7y, 24% of budgetPresbyterian Church in Canada — C$74,649 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetVeteran's Transition Network — C$1,725 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetINTERFAITH FOOD BANK — C$1,520 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetWinnipeg Inner City Missions of the Presbyterian Church — C$1,100 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCamp Kannawin — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCUPS CALGARY SOCIETY — C$200 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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.

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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 8 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 charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 108168881:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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