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Calgary, AB · Charitable organization

West Island College Society of Alberta

West island college provides education to students grade 7-12 and follows the alberta program of studies for curriculum implementation.

C$9k
Granted FY2024still arriving
17
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 17 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$364
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$35M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Aboriginal Friendship Centre of CalgaryC$1,940
Canadian Red CrossC$1,033
Kids Help PhoneC$908
Polar Bears International - CanadaC$858
Moose Hide FoundationC$563
Alberta Children's HospitalC$519
Calgary Branches Poppy FundC$500
Skipping StoneC$434
Canadian Tire JumpstartC$364
Bear Valley Rescue SocietyC$316
Calgary FoundationC$300
Water FirstC$199
The Period PurseC$169
Veteran's Food BankC$147
Heart and Stroke Foundation of CanadaC$118
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.

50%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$29k · 12 repeat orgsC$30k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +40% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
41

Total granted

C$29k
C$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+40%
+11%

Still filing today

92%
98%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
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

  • RV
    River Valley School
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$15k · revenue +26%
  • KH
    Kids Help Phone
    3× · 2018–2024 · C$2k · revenue +140%
  • RC
    ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BR#291
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$2k · revenue +40%

Funded once

  • RV
    RIVER VALLEY SCHOOL
    one grant, 2023 · C$8k · revenue +11%
  • EF
    EVENTSTART FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION OF CALGARYgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$6k · revenue +154%
  • DT
    Dream Take Flight Calgary
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue -86%

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 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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2
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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3
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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4
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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5
Calgary Health Foundation

Provide support for medical services long term care medical research and education by granting to alberta health services - calgary zone university of calgary medical school and other registered charities providing support of health care…

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6
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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7
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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8
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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9
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment…

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10
Mental Health Foundation

The charity's purpose is fund raising for the primary areas of education research innovation and integrated mental health and addiction services. the foundation's mandate supports programs and services throughout the province of alberta.

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11
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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12
University Hospitals Foundation

The University Hospital Foundation raises funds to advance the position of the community and academic medical centre including the University of Alberta Hospital Mazankowski Alberta Heart Institute and the Kaye Edmonton Clinic as centers…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Mustard Seed Society and the most unlike its peers is Simon House Residence 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

68 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
67/68
Grantees still filing
38/68
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetRiver Valley School — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetRIVER VALLEY SCHOOL — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVENTSTART FOR CHILDREN FOUNDATION OF CALGARY — C$6,300 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetHAYATI CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION OF ALBERTA — C$3,214 over 4y, 9.9% of budgetKids Help Phone — C$2,364 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL CANADIAN LEGION BR#291 — C$2,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Red Cross — C$1,998 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetAboriginal Friendship Centre of Calgary — C$1,940 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSKIPPING STONE SCHOLARSHIP — C$1,790 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$1,649 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDream Take Flight Calgary — C$1,137 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVILLAGES OF HOPE: AFRICA SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEMILY BRYDON FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINSPIRE — C$906 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPolar Bears International - Canada — C$858 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Wood's Home Foundation — C$650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHUMANITARIAN COALITION — C$578 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMoose Hide Foundation — C$563 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSTARFISH CANADA — C$530 over 1y, 22% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$527 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD — C$428 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY THERAPY DOGS SOCIETY — C$400 over 1y, 4.2% of budgetCanadian Tire Jumpstart — C$364 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBear Valley Rescue Society — C$316 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Foundation — C$300 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY OUTLINK — C$271 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFIELD OF CROSSES — C$250 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION — C$234 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$229 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSIMON HOUSE REDIDENCE SOCIETY — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAARC ADOLESCENT RECOVERY CENTRE — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY DROP-IN & REHAB CENTRE SOCIETY — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWater First — C$199 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart and Stroke Foundation of Canada — C$193 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCalgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society — C$187 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Period Purse — C$169 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY CHINESE CULTURAL CENTRE — C$158 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$150 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association — C$149 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetVeteran's Food Bank — C$147 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Mustard Seed Society — C$138 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE CHARITY — C$132 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY READS (AN EARLY LITERACY INITIATIVE) SOCIETY — C$114 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAGA Khan Foundation Canada — C$105 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORD CANADA — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRUNDLE COLLEGE SOCIETY — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEGACY OF HOPE FOUNDATION — C$100 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 EpicUnited Way of Calgary…The Calgary FoundationCalgary Shaw Charity …Cenovus Employee Foun…Calgary Flames Founda…Calgary Inter-Faith F…The Calgary Roman Cat…Nickle Family Foundat…The Prosser Charitabl…United Way of the Alb…Youth and Philanthrop…
Atco Electric EpicAB17.1× affinity21 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Atco Electric Epic · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Inter-Faith Food Bank Society · The Calgary Roman Catholic Separate School Division · Nickle Family Foundation · The Prosser Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie

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 63 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 2024-08-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under teaching institutions.

Source object 105645212:2024-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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