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Fort Mcmurray, AB · Public foundation

Wood Buffalo Community Foundation

Offers grants to various npo organizations in the fort mcmurray area.

C$513k
Granted FY2024still arriving
23
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$137k
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$10k15 grants · C$27k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$72k
  • C$50k–250k5 grants · C$414k
C$3,431
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$608k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ATHABASCA CHIPEWYAN FIRST NATIONC$137,161
PASTEW PLACE DETOX CENTREC$75,000
NISTAWOYOU ASSOCIATION FRIENDSHIP CENTERC$73,576
FORT MCMURRAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL DIVISIONC$71,534
FORT MCMURRAY GOLDEN YEARS SOCIETYC$56,840
EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$41,976
SOME OTHER SOLUTIONS SOCIETY FOR CRISIS PREVENTIONC$19,600
SAFE COMMUNITY WOOD BUFFALOC$10,000
ARTS COUNCIL WOOD BUFFALOC$4,420
Individual grant recipientC$3,431
UNITED WAY FORT MCMURRAY AND WOOD BUFFALOC$3,431
FORT MCMURRAY SPCAC$3,431
KIDSPORT WOOD BUFFALOC$2,794
UKRAINIAN CANADIAN CONGRESSC$1,800
YMCA OF NORTHERN ALBERTAC$1,600
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.

67%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.4M · 21 repeat orgsC$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +28% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

21 repeat relationships — 13 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

21
22

Total granted

C$2.4M
C$833k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+9%

Still filing today

86%
82%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 37% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$321k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • EC
    Edmonton Community Foundation
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$770k · revenue +493%
  • SA
    ST. AIDAN'S HOUSE SOCIETY FUND
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$325k · revenue +67%
  • PP
    Pastew Place Detoxification Centre
    3× · 2018–2021 · C$175k · revenue +27%

Funded once

  • EC
    EDMONTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$303k
  • ST
    SUPPORT THROUGH HOUSING TEAM SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$55k · revenue -3%
  • WB
    WOOD BUFFALO WELLNESS SOCIETYgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$54k · revenue +97%

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.

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Wood Buffalo Community Foundation

Offers grants to various npo organizations in the fort mcmurray area. these organzations provide community support and cultural awareness programs in the area. offers grants to various npo organizations in the fort mcmurray area.…

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2
Wood's Homes

Intensive residential programs including mental health programs covering a range of high risk behaviors. - crisis stabilization programs aimed at defusing parent/adolescent conflict. - group care programs designed to transition youth from…

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3
Choices Association of Fort Mcmurray

The organization's mandate is to support individuals who have a wide range of barriers and/or limitations to employment including physical/mental challenges health issues mental health issues learning disabilities acquired brain injury…

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4
Friends of the Fort Mcmurray Firefighter Charities Fund Society

Raise funds to support community programs such as the wood buffalo food bank waypoints the spca the boys and girls club and the centre of hope

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5
Women Building Futures Society

Developing and delivering trades training programs in alberta geared to women's learning styles - increasing women's employment opportunities and sustainability - identifying and addressing the systemic barries women face - providing…

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6
Ywca Nwt

Family Violence Shelters: It is a secure and anonymous place for women & their children to receive support while they are fleeing violence. Family Centre: The Centre is for children up to age 5. We focus on mental and physical wellness and…

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7
Mountain Plains Family Service Society of Edmonton

Programs that place children referred by childrens services into foster homes and provide support to both the children and the foster family

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8
Woodstock and District Developmental Services

Provide supports/services for people with developmental disabilities through programs: family support: provide support/assistance for families with children/young adults comjunity activity: provide day time services re:…

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9
The Boyle Street Service Society

Boyle street service society provide the following services: 1) housing first- assists in placing individuals and families in affordable accomodations. 2) street outreach- helps people meet immediate needs such as food warm clothing and…

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10
Canadian Mental Health Association-Edmonton Region

Cmha edmonton is the leading community meantal health organization in the region delivering key services in the areas of mental health support education and training wayfinding and collective action. this supports individuals families…

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11
Red Deer Family Service Bureau

COUNSELING-provide counseling services regardless of income HOME SUPPORT-provide home support services to families facing adverse circumstances that prevent them from maintaining their home environment ADULT DAY SUPPORT-provide skill…

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12
Children First Community Child Care Network Society

Providing childcare services in the Fort McMurray area.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Mcman Youth Family & Community Services Association and the most unlike its peers is Gethsemane International Assembly. 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

37 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. 37 of the 53 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
36/37
Grantees still filing
27/37
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 budgetEdmonton Community Foundation — C$769,589 over 5y, 1.9% of budgetST. AIDAN'S HOUSE SOCIETY FUND — C$325,306 over 6y, 13% of budgetThe Hub Family Resource Centre — C$305,473 over 5y, 6.9% of budgetPastew Place Detoxification Centre — C$174,600 over 3y, 5.8% of budgetAUTISIM SOCIETY OF RMWB — C$92,795 over 3y, 15% of budgetFORT MCMURRAY GOLDEN YEARS SOCIETY — C$89,781 over 3y, 13% of budgetFORT MCMURRAY PUBLIC SCHOOL DIVISION — C$79,201 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE OF HOPE — C$78,849 over 5y, 2.7% of budgetFORT MCMURRAY CATHOLIC SCHOOL DIVISION — C$76,534 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS INC. OF NORTHERN ALBERTA — C$64,782 over 2y, 7.0% of budgetSAFE COMMUNITY WOOD BUFFALO — C$64,054 over 3y, 18% of budgetSUPPORT THROUGH HOUSING TEAM SOCIETY — C$55,327 over 1y, 18% of budgetWOOD BUFFALO WELLNESS SOCIETY — C$53,870 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetFUSESOCIAL WOOD BUFFALO — C$50,800 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetUNITED WAY FOR FORT MCMURRAY — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetARTS COUNCIL WOOD BUFFALO — C$42,096 over 2y, 3.9% of budgetKEYANO COLLEGE — C$41,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$40,325 over 1y, 13% of budgetBBBS WOOD BUFFALO — C$40,000 over 1y, 9.5% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetWOOD BUFFALO FOOD BANK — C$28,086 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetWAYPOINTS COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLOCAL HERO FOUNDATION — C$23,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYMCA OF NORTHERN ALBERTA — C$21,302 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORT MCMURRAY SPCA — C$20,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetFamily Christian Centre — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMULTICULTURAL ASSOCIATION OF WOOD BUFFALO — C$20,000 over 1y, 2.9% of budgetNORTHREACH SOCIETY — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetKING'S KIDS — C$13,161 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetCNIB — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNorth East Alberta FASD Network — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFORT MCMURRAY BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB — C$9,855 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCANCER SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetREHOBOTH ALLIANCE — C$5,985 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetNORTHLIFE FELLOWSHIP BAPTIST CHURCH — C$5,274 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$4,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE FORT MCMURRAY SOCIETY OF THE FRIENDS OF MUSIC — C$3,010 over 5y, 1.6% 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.

United Way Fort McMur…Suncor Energy Foundat…The Canadian Red Cros…Rotary District 5370 …United Way of the Alb…Atco Electric EpicUnited Way of Calgary…The Edmonton Communit…John Wilson Family Fo…Alberta Genealogical …Bouchier Family Chari…The Muttart Foundation
United Way Fort McMurray and Wood BuffaloAB31× affinity28 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Fort McMurray and Wood Buffalo · Suncor Energy Foundation/Fondation Suncor Energie · The Canadian Red Cross Society / la Societe Canadienne de la Croix-Rouge · Rotary District 5370 Charitable Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Atco Electric Epic · United Way of Calgary and Area · The Edmonton Community Foundation Priv Act · John Wilson Family Foundation · Alberta Genealogical Society · Bouchier Family Charitable Trust · The Muttart 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 53 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 721278927:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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