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Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization

Actua

ACTUA's mandate is to support deliver and advocate for the engagement of youth in stem programming that builds their confidence and skills.

C$8.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
40
Grants FY2024still arriving
10
Regions reached
C$697k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 40 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k2 grants · C$10k
  • C$50k–250k25 grants · C$2.8M
  • C$250k+13 grants · C$5.3M
C$149,209
Median grant
10
Regions reached
C$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GEERING UPC$696,869
ONTARIO TECH UNIVERSITY ENGINEERING OUTRC$566,357
ENGINEERING OUTREACHC$505,778
UOTTAWA ENGINEERING OUTREACHC$483,180
WATERLOO ENGINEERING OUTREACHC$440,333
SUPER NOVAC$417,615
EYESC$404,709
MCMASTER ENGINEERING OUTREACHC$374,873
WISE KID-NETIC ENERGYC$330,209
VIRTUAL VENTURESC$290,554
SCIENCE VENTUREC$278,139
DESTINATION EXPLORATIONC$268,522
WESTERN ENGINEERING OUTREACH PROGRAMSC$250,845
YOUTH MOVING MOUNTAINSC$214,035
QUEEN'S ENGINEERING OUTREACHC$210,000
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$26M
British Columbia
C$9.2M
Saskatchewan
C$4.2M
Manitoba
C$3.9M
Alberta
C$3.5M
Nova Scotia
C$3.5M
Quebec
C$2.0M
New Brunswick
C$1.4M
Yukon
C$978k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$955k
Northwest Territories
C$508k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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$55M · 41 repeat orgsC$1.5M to everyone else

41 repeat relationships — 36 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

41
9

Total granted

C$55M
C$693k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+28%
+41%

Still filing today

93%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$838k 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

  • GU
    GEERING UP
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$5.1M · revenue +55%
  • UE
    UOTTAWA ENGINEERING OUTREACH
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$4.4M · revenue +39%
  • EO
    ENGINEERING OUTREACH
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$3.5M · revenue +42%

Funded once

  • DE
    DESTINATION EXPLORATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$165k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · C$149k
  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2022 · C$109k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Brock University

Teaching and Research in broadly based undergraduate and graduate education programs including professional and interdisciplinary programs. The University provides education programs across seven faculties: Applied Health Sciences Business…

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2
University of the Fraser Valley

The University of the Fraser Valley is a special purpose teaching university. The University is governed by a Board of Governors the majority of which are appointed by the Province of British Columbia. The primary purpose of the University…

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3
Thompson Rivers University

Thompson Rivers University operates as an accredited Post Secondary University offering a variety of undergraduate and masters degrees as well as a variety of diplomas certificates and continuing education courses.

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4
University of Prince Edward Island

Post-Secondary Education

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5
Saint Mary's University

Saint Mary’s University is one of Canada’s top primarily undergraduate universities known for its international collaborations leadership in entrepreneurship and research that benefits local and global communities. We provide undergraduate…

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6
Alberta University of the Arts

Post-secondary education in the field of visual art and design. alberta university of the arts (auarts) provides bachelor of fine arts bachelor of design and masters of fine arts programs.

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7
The University of Western Ontario

Post secondary research and education

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8
Universite Du Quebec

Enseignement et recherche universitaire

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9
Universite De Moncton

Programmes d'enseignement post-secondaire et de recherche

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10
British Columbia Institute of Technology

BCIT is a public polytechnic institute that operates across five campuses located in the Metro Vancouver region. BCIT provides post secondary education to nearly 50 000 students in subjects ranging from applied and natural sciences…

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11
UniversitÉ Du QuÉBec À MontrÉAl

La mission de l'université consiste à former des étudiants et à contributer à l'avancement des connaissances par des activités de recherche. toutes les ressources de l'université ont été dépensées dans le cadre le cardre de sa mission par…

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12
Concordia University of Edmonton

Offer post-secondary undergraduate and graduate programs upgrading and distance learning programs

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Saskatchewan and the most unlike its peers is Visions of Science Network for Learning. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

43 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. 43 of the 54 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
43/43
Grantees still filing
39/43
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 budgetGEERING UP — C$5,107,846 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetUOTTAWA ENGINEERING OUTREACH — C$4,365,596 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetENGINEERING OUTREACH — C$3,487,298 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetWISE KID-NETIC ENERGY — C$3,030,874 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetQueen's Engineering Outreach — C$2,823,420 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSUPERNOVA — C$2,717,390 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetVenture Academy — C$2,709,744 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetEYES — C$2,529,617 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetSCIENCE VENTURE — C$1,925,604 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetWATERLOO ENGINEERING OUTREACH — C$1,802,112 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetVirtual Ventures — C$1,793,511 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetSCI-FI — C$1,647,136 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO TECH UNIVERSITY — C$1,559,363 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH MOVING MOUNTAINS — C$1,503,185 over 8y, 0.9% of budgetScience AL!VE — C$1,281,706 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWISE Kid-Netic Energy — C$1,260,689 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDestination Exploration — C$1,221,847 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMINDS IN MOTION — C$1,055,501 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetMemorial Engineering Outreach — C$954,729 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetNUScience Explorations — C$750,940 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetWorlds Unbound — C$687,930 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetTRACKS Youth Program — C$686,794 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCreative Encounters — C$680,347 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFirst Peoples' Centre — C$623,700 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetAurora Research Institute — C$508,031 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetMini University — C$503,985 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetEUReKA! Science Program — C$484,612 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetSUPERIOR SCIENCE — C$474,267 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetSix Nations Polytechnic — C$465,298 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetGENITRUCS — C$451,866 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRED HOT SCIENCE — C$429,172 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Moving Mountains — C$403,924 over 3y, 11% of budgetIndigenous House of Learning — C$382,941 over 5y, 3.4% of budgetUNBC ACTIVE MINDS — C$329,811 over 6y, 56% of budgetPROGRAMMES JUEUNESSE — C$326,239 over 8y, 5.6% of budgetWII CHIIIWAAKANAK — C$258,050 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetX-Chem Outreach — C$217,063 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetAdventure Kids — C$166,950 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetGÉNITRUCS — C$92,879 over 1y, 9.8% of budgetDiscoverE — C$73,500 over 1y, 3.9% of budgetDigi Camps/Science Innovations Program — C$65,700 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetFNUniv Science Outreach Program — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCONCORDIA YOUTH ENGAGEMENT — C$520 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.

  • Who funds GEERING UP ↗
  • Who funds UOTTAWA ENGINEERING OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds ENGINEERING OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds WISE KID-NETIC ENERGY ↗
  • Who funds Queen's Engineering Outreach ↗
  • Who funds SUPERNOVA ↗
  • Who funds Venture Academy ↗
  • Who funds EYES ↗
  • Who funds SCIENCE VENTURE ↗
  • Who funds WATERLOO ENGINEERING OUTREACH ↗
  • Who funds Virtual Ventures ↗
  • Who funds SCI-FI ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO TECH UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds YOUTH MOVING MOUNTAINS ↗
  • Who funds Science AL!VE ↗
  • Who funds WISE Kid-Netic Energy ↗
  • Who funds Destination Exploration ↗
  • Who funds MINDS IN MOTION ↗
  • Who funds Memorial Engineering Outreach ↗
  • Who funds NUScience Explorations ↗
  • Who funds Worlds Unbound ↗
  • Who funds TRACKS Youth Program ↗
  • Who funds Creative Encounters ↗
  • Who funds First Peoples' Centre ↗
  • Who funds Aurora Research Institute ↗
  • Who funds Mini University ↗
  • Who funds EUReKA! Science Program ↗
  • Who funds SUPERIOR SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds Six Nations Polytechnic ↗
  • Who funds GENITRUCS ↗
  • Who funds RED HOT SCIENCE ↗
  • Who funds Youth Moving Mountains ↗
  • Who funds Indigenous House of Learning ↗
  • Who funds UNBC ACTIVE MINDS ↗
  • Who funds PROGRAMMES JUEUNESSE ↗
  • Who funds WII CHIIIWAAKANAK ↗

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.

Central Okanagan Burs…The Leonard FoundationThe Joyce Family Foun…Ottawa Community Foun…Future Generations Fo…Enactus CanadaRideau Hall Foundatio…The Calgary FoundationThe Kpmg Foundation/L…Suncor Energy Foundat…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…Wcs Wildlife Conserva…
Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship SocietyBC11.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Central Okanagan Bursary and Scholarship Society · The Leonard Foundation · The Joyce Family Foundation · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · Future Generations Foundation / la Fondation Des Generationsà Venir · Enactus Canada · Rideau Hall Foundation / Fondation Rideau Hall · The Calgary Foundation · The Kpmg Foundation/La Fondation Kpmg · Suncor Energy Foundation/Fondation Suncor Energie · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

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 54 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 charitable organization under support of schools and education.

Source object 140573320:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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