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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Werklund Foundation

To support post secondary education through scholarships and bursaries based on scholastic achievement and/or financial need.

C$843k
Granted FY2024still arriving
22
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$300k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 22 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$11k
  • C$10k–50k12 grants · C$260k
  • C$50k–250k4 grants · C$272k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$300k
C$16,800
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$19M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
NORTHERN GATEWAY REGIONAL DIVISION NO. 10C$300,000
ARTS COMMONSC$85,000
SPIRIT NORTHC$70,000
CANADA HELPSC$61,955
YOUTH AND PHILANTHROPY INITIATIVE CANADAC$55,000
UMOJA COMMUNITY MOSAICC$46,200
YOUTH CENTRAL SOCIETYC$40,000
JUNIOR ACHIEVEMENT OF SOUTHERN ALBERTAC$30,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CALGARYC$25,000
KIDS HELP PHONEC$25,000
YOUTH SINGERS OF CALGARY SOCIETYC$16,800
THE BACK DOOR A YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SOCIETYC$16,500
CALGARY COUNSELLING CENTREC$16,500
TWO WHEEL VIEWC$12,000
PENTICTON ART GALLERY SOCIETYC$11,700
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.3M · 48 repeat orgsC$605k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +29% for the ones you funded once.

48 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 31 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

48
42

Total granted

C$5.3M
C$285k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+29%

Still filing today

100%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 62% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$320k 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

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF CALGARY
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$1.3M · revenue +27%
  • CS
    CALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$465k · revenue +205%
  • YS
    YOUTH SINGERS OF CALGARY
    3× · 2019–2024 · C$327k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • CO
    CALGARY OUBLIC LIBRARY
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k · revenue +14%
  • CR
    CHINOOK ROTARY CLUB SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +74%
  • RH
    ROWAN HOUSE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +3%

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
Beam Foundation

BEAM Foundation is a not-for-profit foundation dedicated to improving the mental health and wellbeing of kids & youth in Calgary Alberta. Our mission is to provide accessible and affordable wellness programs to children and youth who are…

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2
Calgary Arts Foundation

Calgary arts foundation was created to generate financial support for the calgary arts sector. the foundation is focused on the arts creative industries and cultural sector to strengthen existing programs that support organizations artists…

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3
Calgary Eye Foundation

Foundation supports calgary's ophthalmology program through enhanced education research and program development.

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4
Calgary Learns Association

The Alberta Government funds the Provincial Community Adult Learning Program (CALP). It is the role of individual CALPs across the province to ensure the delivery of part-time non-formal literacy and foundational learning opportunities to…

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5
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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6
Evenstart for Children Foundation of Calgary

The foundation provides a centre based program for disadvantaged and at risk preschool aged children and their families as well as sponsorship program for children at risk who are referred by the community partners.

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7
Calgary Society for Healthy Child Development
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8
Alberta Foundation for Health Research

Alberta foundation for health research supports health research projects that are provinvial in scope which impact and originate but are beyond the scope of alberta innovates - health solutions

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9
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. we strategically invest in local agencies and collaboratives to create…

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10
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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11
Calgary Youth Justice Society

Calgary Youth Justice Committees (CYJC): A restorative justice alternative for youth facing minor offenses. Volunteer-led committees work with young offenders and their families to design meaningful community-based consequences emphasizing…

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12
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Seniors Resource Society and the most unlike its peers is The Northern Gateway School Division. 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

93 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. 93 of the 95 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
92/93
Grantees still filing
65/93
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 budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$1,299,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY SHAW CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$464,500 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetWE CHARITY — C$455,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYOUTH SINGERS OF CALGARY — C$326,800 over 3y, 24% of budgetCLASSROOM CHAMPIONS — C$306,200 over 5y, 4.7% of budgetNORTHERN GATEWAY REGIONAL DIVISION NO. 10 — C$300,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEmpowering Minds — C$236,000 over 3y, 26% of budgetJUNIOR ACHIEMENT OF SOUTHERN ALBERTA — C$190,000 over 7y, 3.2% of budgetYOUTH AND PHILANTHROPY INITIATIVE CANADA — C$185,000 over 6y, 8.7% of budgetSPIRIT NORTH — C$180,000 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$176,834 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetARTS COMMONS — C$170,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF CALGARY — C$165,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetKIDS HELP PHONE — C$161,891 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetYOUTH CENTRAL — C$140,000 over 4y, 5.1% of budgetUMOJA COMMUNITY MOSAIC — C$87,500 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetTELUS WORLD OF SCIENCE — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYOUNG ALBERTA BOOK SOCIETY — C$64,000 over 8y, 4.8% of budgetTHE BACK DOOR A YOUTH EMPLOYMENT SOCIETY — C$61,500 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetCALGARY OUBLIC LIBRARY — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTWO WHEEL VIEW CALGARY LTD. — C$37,000 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetEducation Matters — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetGLASSCO FOUNDATION — C$33,300 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetPENTICTON ART GALLERY SOCIETY — C$32,145 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetALBERTA ADOLESCENT RECOVERY CENTRE — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCALGARY COUNSELLING CENTRE — C$30,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN WOMEN FOR WOMEN IN AFGHANISTAN INC. — C$27,927 over 3y, 1.5% of budgetSYNERGY YOUTH AND COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT — C$25,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetCALGARY HOMELESS FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROWAN HOUSE SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetCALGARY MILITARY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$22,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCAMP CHESTERMERE ASSCIATION — C$20,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetFRESH START RECOVERY CENTRE — C$18,182 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCUPS CALGARY SOCIETY — C$16,091 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY POLICE FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetWOODS HOMES FOUNDATION — C$14,320 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetCALGARY SENIORS RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$12,612 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetinn from the Cold — C$12,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER — C$11,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BEE PLAN — C$11,000 over 3y, 21% of budgetSPORT FOR CALGARY FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCALGARY HUMANE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetBROWN BAGGING FOR KIDS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUND — C$9,091 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEQUAL VOICE FOUNDATION — C$9,091 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetK O ARTS CENTRE SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$9,000 over 1y, 5.2% of budgetPLAN INTERNATIONAL CANADA INC — C$8,308 over 4y, 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.

Calgary Shaw Charity …Calgary Flames Founda…The Calgary FoundationHunter Family Foundat…Cenovus Employee Foun…Viewpoint FoundationAtco Electric EpicAtco Gas Employees' C…Children's Hospital A…Carthy FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…Lily Street Foundation
Calgary Shaw Charity Classic FoundationAB29× affinity29 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · The Calgary Foundation · Hunter Family Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Children's Hospital Aid Society · Carthy Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Lily Street 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 95 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 842593923:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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