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Alberta · Registered charity

SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION

SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$377,156 to it, the largest being CM FOUNDATION (C$373,656). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$-13782482
Revenue FY2024
2
Funders on record
C$377k
Grants received
C$266M
Net assets
0/2 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 10%

Against its field

SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION holds deeper cash reserves than three-quarters of the 3,067 foundations nonprofits its size.

Operating margin187% · outside the comparable range
Months of reserve139.1mo · top quartile
Revenue growth (annualized)15% · top quartile

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 3,067 foundations nonprofits under $100k, FY2024

Three funders worth looking at

Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

The organization over time

Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$59M) Expenses 100 (C$1.4M) Net assets 100 (C$95M)2018 Revenue 6 (C$3.8M) Expenses 187 (C$2.6M) Net assets 101 (C$96M)2019 Revenue 34 (C$20M) Expenses 260 (C$3.6M) Net assets 118 (C$113M)2020 Revenue -14 (C$-8293779) Expenses 278 (C$3.9M) Net assets 105 (C$100M)2021 Revenue 103 (C$61M) Expenses 305 (C$4.3M) Net assets 165 (C$157M)2022 Revenue 15 (C$9.1M) Expenses 0 (C$0)2023 Revenue 237 (C$140M) Expenses 615 (C$8.6M) Net assets 306 (C$292M)2024 Revenue -23 (C$-13782482) Expenses 858 (C$12M) Net assets 279 (C$266M)
'17'18'19'20'21'22'23'24
Revenue (-23)Expenses (858)Net assets (279)Peer revenue range

How it's funded, over time

Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

-1% of SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION’s revenue is contributions — more earned-revenue than three-quarters of its peers (97% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 2,538 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$58M
’17
C$1.1M
’18
C$16M
’19
−C$12M
’20
C$56M
’21
C$9.1M
’22
C$131M
’23
−C$26M
’24
139
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

Grant support over time, funder by funder — shade shows the grant size each year.

Funder
'18
'24*
total
Cm Foundationunclassified
C$374k
funders
1
1

From the CRA filings of SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

How concentrated its funding is

SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left

100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION.

99%
largest funder
100%
top three
~1
effective funders

“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

Where its funders are

100% of SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION's grant income comes from Alberta funders.

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.

03Its place in the field

Funders to approach

Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first.

From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.

Government revenue SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$0
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION

Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.

In Alberta

Nationally

04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 0%

Governance

5
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION?
SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION (Alberta) receives grants from 2 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$377,156 to it, the largest being CM FOUNDATION (C$373,656). 0 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 2 organizations giving C$377,156 in grants to SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION.
Who is the largest funder of SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION?
CM FOUNDATION is the largest funder on record, with C$373,656 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like SHAW FAMILY FOUNDATION find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Alberta.

These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register