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Banff, AB · Private foundation

Wim and Nancy Pauw Foundation

The goal of the pauw foundation is to reinvest in banff supporting projects that contribute to a more active vibrant and happy community of banff.

C$3.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$1.0M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 23 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$4k
  • C$10k–50k10 grants · C$267k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$661k
  • C$250k+4 grants · C$2.2M
C$45,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$62M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CANADIAN ROCKIES REGIONAL DIVISION NO 12C$1,003,000
YWCA BANFFC$550,000
TOWN OF BANFFC$411,946
BANFF CANMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$263,000
ROCKY MOUNTAIN ADAPTIVEC$155,000
TAKE ME OUTSIDE -OUTDOOR EDUCATIONC$100,000
STONEY EDUCATION AUTHORITYC$100,000
SPIRIT NORTHC$100,000
THE HOWL EXPERIENCEC$75,000
HOMELESS SOCIETY OF THE BOW VALLEYC$75,000
THE SOUTHER FRANCOPHONE EDUCATION REGIOC$56,000
BOW VALLEY CONNECTIONS CENTREC$45,000
RALPH CONNOR MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCHC$35,591
PETER AND CATHERINE WHYTE FOUNDATION- WC$30,000
CANMORE COMMUNITY CRUISER BIKE SHARE SOC$30,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$13M · 18 repeat orgsC$354k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +23% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 17 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
8

Total granted

C$13M
C$130k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+23%
0%

Still filing today

72%
75%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$224k 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

  • CR
    CANADIAN ROCKIES REGIONAL DIVISION NO.12
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$4.7M · revenue +31%
  • YB
    YWCA BANFF
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$1.1M · revenue +2%
  • BC
    BANFF CANMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$713k · revenue +32% · 97% of their budget

Funded once

  • RC
    Rotary Club of Canmoregraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$60k · revenue +34% · 64% of their budget
  • BV
    BOW VALLEY TRUE SPORT AND RECREATION COUNCIL
    one grant, 2023 · C$42k
  • RU
    Rundle United Church
    one grant, 2022 · C$12k · revenue 0%

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 Council for Environmental Education

Work collaboratively to advance environmental education in Alberta. Move environmental education from the margins to mainstream by harnessing youth voice to guide decision makers increasing students environmental and climate literacy and…

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2
Inside Education Society of Alberta

Inside Education programs aim to create generations of engaged citizens who understand the important relationships betweenenvironment economy and society and who think critically and creatively about environmental topics and actively…

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3
Banff Forum

The Banff Forum's objective is to advance education by hosting an annual forum and events across the country that bring together emerging and established leaders across all sectors and regions to enhance their leadership skills and support…

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4
The Banff Centre Foundation

The banff centre foundation supports the activities of the board of governors of the banff centre which is a charitable organization providing the public with the opportunity to access a broad range of learning experiences.

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5
Pembina Institute for Appropriate Development

The Pembina Institute promotes public education and information that increases understanding about environmental and global energy issues. We provide research analysis and recommendations to inform policies and practices related to energy…

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6
Alberta Recreation and Parks Association

Awards and Scholarships June is Recreation and Parks Month Youth Development Through Recreation Services Symposium HIGH FIVE Communities in Bloom Alberta Communities ChooseWell CPRA Professional Development and Certification Program…

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7
Alberta Camping Association

The Alberta Camping Association is the accreditation body for summer and youth camps in Alberta. We are committed to supporting camps provide high quality safe fun and inclusive experiences to all. Our standards ensure camps and parents…

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8
Community Foundation of Central Alberta

The foundation is a community catalyst committed to growing a legacy which strengthens the quality of life in red deer and central alberta. activities in support of their mission include: working with donors to enable them to meet their…

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9
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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10
Alberta Emerald Foundation

The mission of the alberta emerald foundation is to recognize and celebrate environmental excellence in alberta. the foundation accomplishes this by organizing the emerald awards annually which honours nominated selected award finalists…

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11
Rocky Mountain Book Award: an Alberta Children's Choice Book Award Society

The rocky mountain book award is a children's choice book award for alberta students in grades 4-7. participating students must read at least five books from the 20 short listed and vote for their favourite. the program is designed to…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Mountain Arts Foundation and the most unlike its peers is St. Georges in the Pines Anglican Church. 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

25 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. 25 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/25
Grantees still filing
14/25
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCANADIAN ROCKIES REGIONAL DIVISION NO.12 — C$4,676,000 over 8y, 3.8% of budgetYWCA BANFF — C$1,150,000 over 4y, 11% of budgetBANFF CANMORE COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$712,660 over 7y, 97% of budgetRocky Mountain Adaptive — C$492,000 over 7y, 23% of budgetSPIRIT NORTH — C$240,000 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetTAKE ME OUTSIDE -OUTDOOR EDUCATION — C$203,000 over 3y, 12% of budgetTHE SOUTHER FRANCOPHONE EDUCATION REGIO — C$152,400 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetTRUE SPORT FOUNDATION — C$142,722 over 5y, 71% of budgetBANFF CHILD CARE CENTRE — C$93,500 over 7y, 1.4% of budgetCANMORE COMMUNITY CRUISER BIKE SHARE SO — C$92,250 over 4y, 34% of budgetTHE HOWL EXPERIENCE — C$75,000 over 1y, 4.9% of budgetCANADIAN MOUNTAIN ARTS FOUNDATION (ARTSPLACE) — C$64,750 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetRotary Club of Canmore — C$60,000 over 1y, 64% of budgetPETER AND CATHERINE WHYTE FOUNDATION- W — C$58,400 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetRALPH CONNOR MEMORIAL UNITED CHURCH — C$51,827 over 2y, 8.4% of budgetBOW VALLEY CONNECTIONS CENTRE — C$45,000 over 1y, 57% of budgetST.GEORGE'S-IN-THE-PINES ANGLICAN CHURCH O — C$25,000 over 1y, 9.7% of budgetRundle United Church — C$11,740 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetCANMORE PRESCHOOL — C$8,000 over 1y, 5.5% of budgetSHOCK TRAUMA AIR RESCUE SERVICE FOUNDATION — C$3,011 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALL ONE SKY FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetBOWSTRINGS HERITAGE FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHabitat for Humanity — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST.MICHAEL'S ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetCOVENANT FOUNDATION — C$880 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.

Banff Canmore Communi…The Edmonton Communit…Canmore Rotary Club C…Crossway Community Ch…The Calgary FoundationCalgary Flames Founda…Edmonton Oilers Commu…United Way of Calgary…Calgary Shaw Charity …Community Foundations…Canada GivesRaymond James Canada …
Banff Canmore Community FoundationAB22.8× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Banff Canmore Community Foundation · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · Canmore Rotary Club Charitable Foundation · Crossway Community Church Canmore · The Calgary Foundation · Calgary Flames Foundation · Edmonton Oilers Community Foundation · United Way of Calgary and Area · Calgary Shaw Charity Classic Foundation · Community Foundations of Canada · Canada Gives · 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 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 860527381:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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