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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Vitality Fund

Vitality Fund supports various community social educational and research charities.

C$336k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$100k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$61k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$275k
C$50,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$8.4M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FRESH START RECOVERY CENTREC$100,000
CALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATIONC$75,000
CALGARY FOOD BANKC$50,000
FEAR IS NOT LOVE SOCIETYC$50,000
TRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACTC$25,000
CHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARYC$25,000
TRADES GUILDC$11,000
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.

74%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$823k · 5 repeat orgsC$294k to everyone else

5 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
7

Total granted

C$823k
C$208k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

-16%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 74% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$86k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • AA
    ALBERTA ADOLESCENT RECOVERY CENTRE
    4× · 2018–2021 · C$303k · revenue -19%
  • FS
    FRESH START RECOVERY CENTRE
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$210k · revenue -53%
  • CH
    CALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$150k · revenue -2%

Funded once

  • HH
    HORIZON HOUSING SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$75k · revenue +19%
  • LF
    LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES
    one grant, 2023 · C$28k · revenue -4%
  • DC
    DISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY
    one grant, 2022 · C$26k · revenue +19%

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 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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2
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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3
Calgary Dream Centre

The calgary dream centre's programs provide recovery-oriented training vocational training and housing opportunities to those experiencing addiction and homelessness. at the calgary dream centre people are given the resources and…

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4
Y.E.S.S.: Youth Emergency Shelter Society of Edmonton

Based in Edmonton Youth Empowerment & Support Services (YESS) provides 24/7 singe-point-of-access to immediate and low-barrier physical mental cultural and emotional health supports and safe places to stay for youth aged 15-21 who are…

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5
Recovery Acres (Calgary) Society

The program helps people help themselves achieve sobriety employment and integration into the community by providing an effective treatment for alcoholism and drug abuse. the program offers day and long term treatment.

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6
Calgary Alpha House Society

Calgary alpha house society provides safe and caring environments for individuals whose lives are affected by alcohol and other drug dependencies. our continuum of programs helps connect these individuals with multiple levels of support…

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7
Cups Calgary Society

CUPS supports Calgarians impacted by poverty trauma and systemic marginalization with a unique integrated approach to care. We empower people to work holistically to create and achieve goals that support their well-being and build…

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8
Threshold Housing Society

The Society continues to provide long-term transitional housing for youth ages 16-25 at risk of becoming homeless. Two housing programs are offered based on the ability of the individual to live independently. A Life Skills component helps…

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9
Homespace Society

Homespace society is a not-for-profit organization whose purpose is to creatively apply expertise to increase and manage the number of affordable and specialized housing units in calgary

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10
Canadian Mental Health Association-Calgary Region

Supported living programs in group homes and apartment complexes for people with mental illnesses. Independent living support included bereavement counselling and group support support programs for families of those suffering from mental…

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11
Accessible Housing Society

Inclusio - 45 Suite fully accessible supportive living facility. - Bridge to Home - Personal supports for people with limited mobility who are exiting homelessness. - Residential Accessible Design (RAD) - Service which provides…

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12
Edmonton People in Need Shelter Society

Providing room board and support services to people with chronic mental illness.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Homeless Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Lethbridge Food Bank 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

15 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
14/15
Grantees still filing
7/15
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 budgetALBERTA ADOLESCENT RECOVERY CENTRE — C$302,840 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetFRESH START RECOVERY CENTRE — C$210,000 over 3y, 3.8% of budgetCALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY FOOD BANK — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHORIZON HOUSING SOCIETY — C$75,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S COTTAGE SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetFEAR IS NOT LOVE SOCIETY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetLIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA DOG GUIDES — C$28,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRE CALGARY — C$26,450 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetRESET SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetTRELLIS SOCIETY FOR COMMUNITY IMPACT — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLETHBRIDGE FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetEDMONTON'S FOOD BANK — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTRADES GUILD — C$11,000 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Canada — C$3,265 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.

Atco Electric EpicAtco Gas Employees' C…The Calgary FoundationClearwater Charitable…Calgary Inter-Faith F…Calgary Shaw Charity …United Way of Calgary…Sam Ousher Switzer Ch…Hunter Family Foundat…Calgary Flames Founda…Cenovus Employee Foun…BenefAction Foundation
Atco Electric EpicAB10.3× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atco Electric Epic · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · The Calgary Foundation · Clearwater Charitable Foundation · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Sam Ousher Switzer Charitable Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · BenefAction Foundation

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 15 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 781672126:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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