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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

Westman Charitable Foundation

The foundation continues to support various community social and health focused charities.

C$565k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$150k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$35k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$525k
C$100,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$5.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
KIDS CANCER CAREC$150,000
NAITC$100,000
SOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (SAIT)C$100,000
SOUTHERN ALBERTA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY (SAIT)C$100,000
ALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$75,000
PROSTATE CANCER CENTREC$25,000
NATIONAL MUSIC CENTREC$10,000
ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATIONC$5,000
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.

86%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.6M · 9 repeat orgsC$597k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
10

Total granted

C$3.6M
C$432k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+9%
+21%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 71% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$165k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’19’20’21’22’23’24
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
    4× · 2019–2023 · C$1.1M · revenue +4%
  • S
    SAIT
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$700k · revenue +36%
  • ND
    NAIT DEPARTMENT OF ADVANCEMENT
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$700k · revenue +24%

Funded once

  • TM
    THE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2023 · C$150k · revenue +10%
  • HS
    HOMESPACE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2020 · C$102k · revenue -22%
  • CR
    CALGARY READS
    one grant, 2022 · C$75k · revenue -90%

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
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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2
Calgary Eye Foundation

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

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3
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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4
Alberta Diabetes Foundation

Funding of diabetes research

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5
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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6
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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7
The Boma Calgary Foundation
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8
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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9
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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10
Alberta Spine Foundation

The objective of the asf is to advance the delivery of spine care in alberta through innovative clinical care focused education and academic collaboration.

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11
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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12
Northern Alberta Urology Foundation

Research prostate cancer awareness

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Health Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Mustard Seed Foundation. 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

22 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)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
13/22
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$1,102,250 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetSAIT — C$700,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNAIT DEPARTMENT OF ADVANCEMENT — C$700,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetEDMONTON PUBLIC SCHOOLS FOUNDATION — C$380,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetMS SOCIETY — C$352,250 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetTHE MUSTARD SEED FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKIDS CANCER CARE — C$150,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetALBERTA CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCalgary Homeless Foundation — C$110,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCALGARY HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$105,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHOMESPACE SOCIETY — C$102,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALGARY READS — C$75,000 over 1y, 3.5% of budgetHULL SERVICES — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROSTATE CANCER CENTRE — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetWELLSPRING CALGARY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCalgary Women's Emergency Shelter Association — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCHILD ADVOCACY CENTRE OF KELOWNA — C$22,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetNATIONAL MUSIC CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJDRF CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCALGARY FOUNDATION/ MENTAL HEALTH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPhilanthropic foundations Canada — C$640 over 1y, 0.1% 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 FoundationUnited Way of Calgary…The Hotchkiss Family …The Arthur J E Child …Viewpoint FoundationUnited Way of the Alb…Cenovus Employee Foun…Aqueduct FoundationAtco Electric EpicRbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…BenefAction FoundationRaymond James Canada …
The Calgary FoundationAB11.6× affinity10 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Hotchkiss Family Foundation · The Arthur J E Child Foundation · Viewpoint Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Atco Electric Epic · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · BenefAction Foundation · Raymond James Canada 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 22 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 851987966:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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