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Calgary, AB · Public foundation

West Calgary Rotary Club - Community Service Fund

Calgary west rotary has continued to support a varied of used base programs and scholarships in addition to disability assistance and food insecurity programs.

C$69k
Granted FY2024still arriving
24
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k23 grants · C$59k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$2,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$82k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANLEARN SOCIETYC$10,000
FEED THE HUNGRYC$6,000
MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITYC$5,000
KOMKAN AFRICANA INSTITUTEC$5,000
STARDALE WOMEN'S GROUPC$5,000
HOPE FOR THOSE LEFT BEHINDC$5,000
Individual grant recipientC$5,000
NEVER TOO LATEC$4,811
RYLAC$3,000
PURSATC$2,713
Individual grant recipientC$2,500
RAYECC$2,000
Individual grant recipientC$2,000
UNLOCKING POTENTIAL FOUNDATIONC$1,860
RISE TO SHINE FOUNDATIONC$1,800
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 — 74% of grant dollars (C$334k). The 26% that went abroad (C$116k) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 26% of all-years giving (C$116k)

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

grant dollars sentlessmore
HNC$12k · 1 grant
EthiopiaC$10k · 1 grant
UgandaC$5k · 1 grant
KenyaC$4k · 2 grants
BZC$3k · 1 grant
KHC$3k · 1 grant
ThailandC$2k · 1 grant
UAC$2k · 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.

56%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$254k · 22 repeat orgsC$196k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +18% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

22 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
43

Total granted

C$254k
C$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+18%
+7%

Still filing today

73%
44%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$29k 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

  • MR
    MOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$21k · revenue +32%
  • CS
    CANLEARN SOCIETY
    2× · 2020–2024 · C$20k · revenue +18%
  • CR
    CALGARY ROTARY CLUBS FDN
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$15k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • HO
    HOMES OF HOPEgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$15k · revenue +84% · 71% of their budget
  • LO
    LEFT OVERS FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$15k · revenue +84%
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2023 · C$12k

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
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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2
Calgary Homeless Foundation

Actively engage community stakeholders and funding partners to work together to guide the fight against homelessness. Providing grants to qualified donees and other community organizations to assist individuals experiencing homelessness…

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3
Calgary Co-Op Community Foundation

Relief of poverty through food security and other supports for vulnerable populations including at-risk youth seniors and others in the community; Advancement of education through scholarships bursaries and grants Providing benefit to the…

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4
Calgary Affordable Housing Foundation

Charitable status was received on April 1 2018 and CAHF has been in a set up phase since that time. In this current fiscal year there has been activity related to preparing to deliver charitable activities which can be described as…

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5
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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6
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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7
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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8
Social Venture Partners Calgary Ltd.

Svp calgary continued its ongoing programs; our investee granting and capacity building program. our organization is an engaged philanthropic charity where members pool their donation dollars and give their time money and skill to propel…

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9
Calgary Police Foundation

The calgary police foundation (cpf)operates under the name of the calgary police youth foundation. it's purpose is to educate youth about good citizenship safe communities policing and avoiding victimization and criminality. cpf does this…

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10
Calgary Public Library Foundation

The Calgary Public Library Foundation's sole purpose is to raise funds for the Calgary Public Library to enhance programs and services provided to Calgarians.

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11
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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12
The Calgary Construction Association Education Fund

Awarded scholarships

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Rotary Club of Calgary North Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Apu Malawi Education Foundation. 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

39 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. 39 of the 78 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
37/39
Grantees still filing
19/39
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 budgetBethany Care Foundation — C$50,659 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetFEED THE HUNGRY — C$24,500 over 5y, 2.6% of budgetMOUNT ROYAL UNIVERSITY — C$20,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCANLEARN SOCIETY — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetNSTEP — C$16,920 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetHOMES OF HOPE — C$15,402 over 1y, 71% of budgetCALGARY ROTARY CLUBS FDN — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetLEFT OVERS FOUNDATION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetShelter Box Canada — C$13,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES (UNLOCKING POTENTIAL) — C$12,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetHOME SPACE SOCIETY — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOPEN TO GROW MICROCREDIT — C$10,000 over 1y, 18% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetI CAN FOR KIDS FOUNDATION — C$9,591 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCOMMUNITY KITCHEN PROGRAM OF CALGARY SOCIETY — C$9,008 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDRENS COTTAGE SOCIETY — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMOTIVE ACTION TRAINING FOUNDATION — C$6,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetSAIT Alumni & Development — C$6,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetSONSHINE COMMUNITY SERVICES OF CALGARY — C$5,489 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY CHARITY CLASSIC FOUNDATION — C$5,246 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSTARDALE WOMEN'S GROUP — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetHayati Children's Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 8.1% of budgetHighbanks Society — C$4,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF CALGARY NORTH — C$3,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetThe Rotary Foundation Canada — C$2,262 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetECSSEN CAREER SCHOOL — C$2,140 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$2,025 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY ROTARY CHALLENGER PARK SOCIETY — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStrongest Oak Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetWOMEN IN NEED SOCIETY OF CALGARY — C$1,920 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUNLOCKING POTENTIAL FOUNDATION — C$1,860 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCrohns & Colitis Canada — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospital Partners International of Canada — C$1,300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFRIENDS OF FISH CREEK PROVINCIAL PARK SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMalawai Education Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetVeterans Food Bank — C$800 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCALGARY ALPHA HOUSE SOCIETY — C$715 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Organ Transplant Assoc. — C$500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE ALEX — C$250 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.

The Calgary FoundationCalgary Shaw Charity …The Rotary Club of Ca…Calgary Flames Founda…United Way of Calgary…Cenovus Employee Foun…Nickle Family Foundat…The Burns Memorial Fu…Carthy FoundationRotary Club of Calgar…Viewpoint FoundationAtco Electric Epic
The Calgary FoundationAB16.5× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · The Rotary Club of Calgary - Community Service Fund · Calgary Flames Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · The Burns Memorial Fund for Children · Carthy Foundation · Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund · Viewpoint Foundation · Atco Electric Epic

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 78 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 2024-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 889395398:2024-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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