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Calgary, AB · Private foundation

William S. Herron Family Charitable Foundation

Assist alberta community and agricultural projects and activities

C$448k
Granted FY2024still arriving
19
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$75k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 19 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$18k
  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$355k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$75k
C$20,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$7.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
AGAPE HOSPICE - SALVATION ARMYC$75,000
WOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTERC$35,000
MEALS ON WHEELSC$35,000
INN FROM THE COLDC$35,000
DISTRESS CENTREC$35,000
FOOTHILLS COUNTRY HOSPICE SOCIETYC$30,000
SIMON HOUSE RESIDENCE SOCIETYC$30,000
YMCAC$25,000
CALGARY SENIORS' RESOURCE SOCIETYC$25,000
KIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$20,000
HIGHBANKS SOCIETYC$20,000
CANADIAN LEGACY PROJECTC$15,000
YOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARYC$15,000
BOW VALLEY AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY - INDUS COMMUNITY CENTREC$15,000
LEFTOVERS FOUNDATIONC$10,000
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.

95%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.3M · 19 repeat orgsC$164k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +49% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

19 repeat relationships — 16 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

19
10

Total granted

C$3.3M
C$109k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+49%
+21%

Still filing today

95%
90%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$55k 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

  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY - AGAPE HOSPICE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$540k · revenue ×19 · 71% of their budget
  • BV
    BOW VALLEY AG. SOCIETY - INDUS COMMUNITY CENTRE
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$365k · revenue +49%
  • HP
    HERITAGE PARK
    3× · 2019–2022 · C$317k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • AC
    ALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$25k · revenue +40%
  • HS
    HIGHBANKS SOCIETY
    one grant, 2019 · C$16k
  • LA
    L'ARCHE ASSOCIATION OF LETHBRIDGE
    one grant, 2021 · C$10k · revenue +21%

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
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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3
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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4
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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5
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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6
Calgary Society for Persons With Disabilities

Providing residential & community supports to adults with developmental disabilities to reach their greastest potential through quality community living.

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7
Community Kitchen Program of Calgary Society

Calgary cooking - teaching low income families to buy and prepare meals at a low price. good food box program - teaching low income families to buy fresh fruit and vegetables at an affordable cost. sprinz around program - provide food to…

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8
Brown Bagging for Calgary's Kids Society

BB4CK is dedicated to supporting children and youth facing food insecurity by providing nutritious meals that promote healthy growth and development. We collaborate with local partners schools and volunteers to implement sustainable…

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9
Bethany Care Society

Bethany care society (bcs) is one of western canada's largest not-for-profit providers of care housing and community services for seniors and persons with disabilities. bethany provides services along the continuum from independent seniors…

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10
The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary an Alberta Society

The Children's Cottage Society of Calgary aims to prevent harm and neglect to all children and to build strong families through support services respite programs and a crisis nursery in and around Calgary. The programs offered by the…

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11
Casa Mental Health

CASA Mental Health delivers holistic culturally safe wrap-around mental health services to Albertans aged 3 - 18 and their families. Major programs include Residential and Day Programs that consist of CASA House Preschool Day Programs…

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12
Calgary Humane Society for Prevention of Cruelty to Animals

The mission of the Society is to Protect Animals. Support People. Create A More Humane World. The Society offers services to the Calgary and surrounding areas in the sheltering and care of animals adoptions protection and investigation and…

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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 Athabasca University. 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

30 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. 30 of the 32 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
30/30
Grantees still filing
25/30
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetSALVATION ARMY - AGAPE HOSPICE — C$540,000 over 8y, 71% of budgetBOW VALLEY AG. SOCIETY - INDUS COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$365,000 over 8y, 6.3% of budgetHERITAGE PARK — C$316,800 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetDISTRESS CENTRE — C$295,500 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetINN FROM THE COLD — C$267,500 over 8y, 0.6% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS — C$255,000 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetSIMON HOUSE RESIDENCE SOCIETY — C$251,800 over 8y, 2.6% of budgetWOMEN'S EMERGENCY SHELTER — C$246,800 over 8y, 0.4% of budgetCALGARY SENIORS' RESOURCE SOCIETY — C$172,000 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetHIGHBANKS SOCIETY — C$136,000 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetYMCA — C$75,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF CALGARY — C$70,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetATHABASCA UNIVERSITY — C$52,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetCALGARY INTER-FAITH FOOD BANK SOCIETY — C$45,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetBETWEEN FRIENDS — C$40,000 over 4y, 0.6% of budgetFOOTHILLS COUNTRY HOSPICE SOCIETY — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetALBERTA CANCER FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN'S BACKPACK SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 8y, 1.7% of budgetYOUTH CENTRES OF CALGARY — C$25,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetCANADIAN LEGACY PROJECT — C$15,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetL'ARCHE ASSOCIATION OF LETHBRIDGE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetI CAN FOR KIDS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCORNERSTONE YOUTH CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetLEFTOVERS FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPROVIDENCE DEVELOPMENT CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE FOR SUICIDE PREVENTION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST JOHN XXIII PARISH — C$7,500 over 1y, 1.7% of budgetAUTISM ASPERGERS GRIENDSHIP SOCIETY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetKINDRED CONNECTIONS SOCIETY — C$5,000 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 FoundationNickle Family Foundat…Calgary Flames Founda…Calgary Shaw Charity …United Way of Calgary…Hunter Family Foundat…Cenovus Employee Foun…Atco Gas Employees' C…Children's Hospital A…Harry and Martha Cohe…Viewpoint FoundationAtco Electric Epic
The Calgary FoundationAB18.4× affinity22 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Calgary Foundation · Nickle Family Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Hunter Family Foundation · Cenovus Employee Foundation · Atco Gas Employees' Community Service Fund · Children's Hospital Aid Society · Harry and Martha Cohen Foundation · 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 32 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 888540457:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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