Each year we publish a Charity List of reviewed organizations to coincide with Giving Tuesday, and the start of the holiday season. Giving Tuesday is an annual global movement of generosity.

The Charity List is a compilation of organizations supported throughout the year by all of our donors through the Place2Give Foundation and our consulting clients through Karma & Cents. In many cases, these are agencies that we have reviewed and recommended based on a donor risk tolerance and/or the funding objectives of the donor.

If you are interested in supporting any one of these agencies, please visit the GIVE page at Place2Give where you can specify the charity you’d like to support. In addition, you can choose to support a fund that has outlined how it will be allocating the funds in the coming year.

2024 List of Charities

Animals

  • AARCS (Calgary)
  • Calgary Humane Society (Calgary)
  • Calgary Wildlife Rehabilitation Society (Calgary)
  • Central Alberta Humane Society (Edmonton)
  • Cochrane Humane Society (Cochrane)
  • MEOW Foundation (Calgary)
  • Pacific Assistance Dogs Society (PADS) (Canada)
  • Parachutes for Pets (Alberta)
  • Pause4Change Rescue Foundation (Calgary)
  • Saving Grace Animal Rescue (Rural Alberta)
  • Wildlife Rehabilitation Society of Edmonton (Edmonton)
  • Winnipeg Humane Society (Winnipeg)
  • Zoe’s Animal Rescue (Edmonton)

Arts & Culture

  • Calgary Jewish Federation – Holocaust Education (Calgary)
  • Chamberfest West (Calgary)
  • Bucking Jam Music Foundation (Calgary)
  • Honens (Calgary)
  • Jewish Historical Society of Southern Alberta (Calgary)
  • Jewish Film Festival (Calgary)
  • National Music Centre (Canada)
  • Opera Canada (Ontario)

Community Foundations/Public Foundations/Community Funds

  • United Jewish Appeal (Calgary)
  • United Jewish Appeal (Toronto)
  • Get S#!t Done (GeShiDo) Foundation (Canada)

Education

  • Headwater Learning Foundation (Calgary)
  • Southwest Horizon School Division (Souris)

Environment

  • Ducks Unlimited (Canada)
  • Nature Conservancy of Canada (Winnipeg)
  • Nature Manitoba (Winnipeg)

Entrepreneurship

  • IncluCity (Calgary) (non-profit)
  • Momentum (Calgary)
  • Two-Wheel View (Calgary)
  • Platform Calgary (Calgary)

Food Security

  • The Alex Food Centre (Calgary)
  • Agape Table (Winnipeg)
  • Food Centres Canada
  • Fresh Routes (non-profit) (Calgary)
  • Harvest Manitoba (Winnipeg)
  • Leftovers Foundation (Calgary)
  • YYC Food Security Fund (Calgary)

Healthcare

  • The Alex – Dental Health Program (Calgary)
  • Branchout Neurological Foundation (Canada)
  • CancerCare Manitoba Foundation (Manitoba)
  • Dream Factory (Winnipeg)
  • iGift Sight (Alberta)
  • STARS Foundation (Alberta, Manitoba)

Indigenous Programming

  • Artemis Place (Kelowna)
  • Creating Hope Society (Alberta)
  • Grey Bruce Aboriginal Qimmiq Team (Northern Ontario)
  • Indspire Awards (Canada)
  • Miskanaw Community Services Organization (Calgary)
  • Thrive Community Support (Winnipeg)
  • Tribe Artist Society (Calgary)
  • Urban Aboriginal Youth Society (Calgary)

International

  • CAWST (International)
  • Charities Aid Foundation (International)
  • Dentistry for All (Guatemala)
  • The George Small Project (Kenya)
  • KBF Canada (International)
  • Mogen David Adom (Israel)
  • World Central Kitchen (International)

Intersectional Feminism & Equity/Diversity/Inclusion

  • Calgary Women’s Emergency Shelter (Calgary)
  • Canvas (Ontario)
  • Centre for Sexuality (Calgary)
  • Community Links – Airdrie (Airdrie)
  • Fast & Female (Canada)
  • Informed Opinions (Canada)
  • NextGen Men (Canada)
  • Odem’s World Fund (Canada)
  • Sagesse (Alberta)
  • Two-Wheel View (Calgary)
  • Victoria Women’s Transition Housing Society (Victoria)
  • West Coast LEAF (BC)

Mental Health

  • Anxieties Disorder Assoc. of Manitoba (ADAM) (Winnipeg)
  • Bruce Oake Recovery Centre (Winnipeg)
  • CASA (Alberta)
  • Calgary Counseling Centre (Calgary)
  • CINIM (Canada)
  • Converge Mental Health Coalition (Canada) (non-profit)
  • DASCH Foundation (Winnipeg)
  • Distress Centre Calgary (Calgary)
  • Dollar-A-Day Foundation (Canada)
  • Kickstand (Alberta)
  • Kids Help Phone (Canada)
  • The Huddle – United Way of Winnipeg (Winnipeg)
  • IYS Net (Canada)
  • Live Different (Brandon, MB)
  • Mental Health Foundation – Kickstand (Alberta)
  • Punjabi Community Association – Men’s Program (Calgary)
  • Sam’s Foundation – formerly the Samantha Mason Foundation (Manitoba)
  • The Summit: Marian & Jim Sinneave Centre for Youth Resilience (Calgary)
  • Two-Ten Recovery Centre (Winnipeg)

Post Secondary Education – Scholarships & Research

  • AUArts (Calgary)
  • Branchout Foundation (Canada)
  • University of Calgary – Cummings School of Medicine (Calgary)
  • University of Calgary – Werklund Faculty of Education (Calgary)
  • University of Calgary – Faculty of Science (Calgary)
  • University of Calgary – Faculty of Social Work – SHIFT Program (Calgary)
  • University of Calgary – Haskayne School of Business (Calgary)
  • Hebrew University (Jerusalem)

Refugee & Immigration

  • Centre for Newcomers (Calgary)
  • Islamic Family & Social Services Association (Edmonton)
  • Windmill Micro-Lending (Canada)

Sports

  • Canadian Association for Disabled Skiing (National)
  • Road to Racing (National)
  • Carlyle Township – Bike Project (Carlyle, SK)

Youth & Children

  • Big Brothers Big Sisters (Calgary)
  • Boys & Girls Club of Thompson (Thompson, MB)
  • Camp BB (Alberta)
  • Camp Miriam (BC)
  • The Link – Youth & Family Supports (Manitoba)
  • Made by Momma (Calgary)
  • Quest Theatre (Calgary)
  • THORN (US)
  • Toba Centre (Winnipeg)
  • Trellis (Calgary)
  • Umoja Community Mosaic (Calgary)
  • YMCA/YWCA of Winnipeg (Winnipeg)
  • Youth Centres of Calgary (Calgary)
  • WITS (Canada)

Philanthropy planning conversations focus on the donation of “stuff”  leading to deeper discussions (and a more important one), what does inheritance mean? This conversation seems to be reinforced during the holiday season when we are in the throws of “giving things” and considering the needs and wants of others. We encourage families to write out their charity list and see how things have changed over time. How do these organizations reflect your values? Have things shifted over time?

In working with clients, we explore the different types of assets at their disposal that can be integrated in a giving plan. We call these assets the 4 T’s – Time, Talent Treasures and Ties. When you consider your giving for the 2024 holiday season, aside from your wealth, how else can you tap into your time, your expertise and your network? We hope this charity list provides you with some starting places and reinforces the organizations you already support.

What we consider when reviewing a charity or project

We assess the following areas in relation to our clients’ overall philanthropic risk tolerance: governance, leadership, competitive landscape, program delivery, community engagement and financials. As practice we only look at the financials if the organization has met the standards in the other performance areas.

As with all of our work, this list is unique to the donors we worked with this year. These organizations meet the individual philanthropic objectives of the funders’. As such, this list is not an endorsement of an organization’s overall transparency or performance. A connection between a donor and a charity is based on the risk tolerance, project interest and objectives set out by our client.