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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

View West Foundation

The private foundation does not intend to carry out charitable activities itself.

C$587k
Granted FY2018
10
Grants FY2018
4
Regions reached
C$525k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2018 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2018

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$25k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$37k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$525k
C$9,084
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$603k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARYC$525,000
COLIN B. GLASSCO CHARITABLE FOUNDATION FOR CHILDRENC$15,000
CALGARY HIGHLANDERS REGIMENTAL FUNDS FOUNDATIONC$12,000
NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADAC$10,000
CARTHY FOUNDATIONC$9,084
THE RANCHE AT FISH CREEK RESTORATION SOCIETYC$5,000
PHEASANTS FOREVER CALGARY CHAPTERC$5,000
ALBERTA ARMY CADET LEAGUEC$2,500
DUCKS UNLIMITED CANADAC$2,500
PPCLI FOUNDATIONC$1,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

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

Your giving at home — 57% of grant dollars (C$692k). The 43% that went abroad (C$525k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 43% of all-years giving (C$525k)

1 country, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
USC$525k · 1 grant

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.

37%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$447k · 6 repeat orgsC$770k to everyone else

6 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2018, 0 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2018 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
8

Total granted

C$447k
C$233k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+32%

Still filing today

100%
88%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2018, 8% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$538k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18
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

  • CF
    Carthy Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$330k · revenue +29%
  • CH
    Calgary Highlanders Regimental Funds Foundation
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$41k · revenue +49%
  • NC
    Nature Conservancy of Canada
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$25k · revenue +144%

Funded once

  • CG
    Canadian Global Affairs Institutegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$175k · revenue +87%
  • TM
    The Manning Foundation for Democratic Education
    one grant, 2017 · C$20k · revenue -22%
  • DW
    Delta Waterfowl Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k · revenue +232%

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
Canadian Forces College Foundation

Promote public awareness of the canadian forces college accomplishments capabilities and mission. organize and support curriculum development lectures symposia and other educational initiatives in the area of defence and national security…

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2
Canadian Cattle Foundation

1. facilitate and encourage stewardship practice and conservation that preserve and or enhance the environment biodiversity and wildlife habitat on working agricultural landscapes; 2.create and /or support education leadership development…

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3
Canadian Defence Lawyers Foundation

Canadian defence lawyers foundation's (cdlf) purpose is to advance education to students from canadian law schools and to support excellence in post-secondary education. it does this by conducting student essay competitions and awarding…

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4
Sci Canada Foundation

Conservation efforts through conducting surveys anti-poaching programs predation studies wildlife restoration and harvest initiatives programs education through scholarship programs for college students apprentice hunter programs support…

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5
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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6
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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7
The Governors of the University of Alberta

The University of Alberta operates under the Post-Secondary Learning Act of the Province of Alberta to provide post-secondary and graduate education and to engage in research and public service. The university has approximately 40 061…

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8
The British Columbia Conservation Foundation

Land for wildlife: make financial contributions to land acquisitions; wildsafebc: provides public awareness to reduce human/wildlife conflict; wildlife collision prevention program: provides public awareness to prevent wildlife/vehicle…

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9
Banff Forum

The Banff Forum's objective is to advance education by hosting an annual forum and events across the country that bring together emerging and established leaders across all sectors and regions to enhance their leadership skills and support…

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10
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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11
World Wildlife Fund Canada Foundation-Fondation Du Fonds Mondial Pour La Nature Canada

The Foundation is a registered Canadian charitable foundation and is the legal body responsible for administering assets donated to be held in trust and other capital funds designated by the Board of Directors. Funds are provided to World…

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12
Canada West Foundation

The canada west foundation is an independent non-partisan public policy think tank that focuses on the policies that shape the west and by extension canada. through our evidence-based research and commentary we provide practical solutions…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Carthy Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Rothesay Netherwood School. 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

16 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. 16 of the 18 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)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
16/16
Grantees still filing
12/16
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTHE UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$525,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCarthy Foundation — C$329,584 over 2y, 3.5% of budgetCanadian Global Affairs Institute — C$175,000 over 1y, 20% of budgetCalgary Highlanders Regimental Funds Foundation — C$40,500 over 2y, 6.7% of budgetColin B Glassco Charitable Foundation for Children — C$40,000 over 2y, 2.1% of budgetNature Conservancy of Canada — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Manning Foundation for Democratic Education — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetDelta Waterfowl Foundation — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCanadian Constitution Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetAlberta Army Cadet League — C$7,500 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetPHEASANTS FOREVER CALGARY CHAPTER — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetThe Canadian Lyford Cay Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE RANCHE AT FISH CREEK RESTORATION SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetPPCLI Foundation — C$4,750 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetRothesay Netherwood School — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMount Royal University — C$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.

M-E Squared FoundationCarthy FoundationThe Calgary FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Fiera Capital Foundat…Toronto FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…Aqueduct FoundationUnited Way of Greater…United Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…Canadian Online Givin…
M-E Squared FoundationAB11.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: M-E Squared Foundation · Carthy Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Fiera Capital Foundation - Fondation Fiera Capital · Toronto Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 18 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 2018-11-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2018. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2019) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2018, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 864470331:2018-11-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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