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Ottawa, ON · Public foundation

Barristers for a Better Bytown

Donations were made to organizations previously supported including : 1) cornerstone housing for women to support the furnishing and completion of one of their apartments at their new building located at 44 eccles to allow them to support additional unhoused women 20 local food banks to support the purchase of food to low income…

C$30k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$15k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$15k
C$2,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
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Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMENC$15,000
COLLABORATIVE JUSTICE PROGRAMC$2,500
OTTAWA SHOOTING STARS YOUTH BASKETBALL - GET IN THE GAME...C$2,500
GLOUCESTER EMERGENCY FOOD CUPBOARDC$2,000
DALHOUSIE FOOD ACTION GROUPC$2,000
VANIER COMMUNITY SERIVCES CENTREC$2,000
ST. JOE'S SUPPER TABLEC$2,000
DEBRA DYNES FAMILY HOUSEC$2,000
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.

55%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$77k · 8 repeat orgsC$65k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +36% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
13

Total granted

C$77k
C$60k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+36%
+14%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 83% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k 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

  • DD
    DEBRA DYNES FAMILY HOUSE
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$28k · revenue +7%
  • CH
    CORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMEN
    2× · 2022–2024 · C$20k · revenue +65%
  • SJ
    ST. JOE'S WOMEN'S CENTRE
    3× · 2020–2024 · C$9k · revenue ×1,397

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER OTTAWA
    one grant, 2019 · C$12k · revenue +14%
  • SO
    Shepherds of Good Hope Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$8k · revenue +88%
  • OC
    Operation Come Homegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$7k · revenue +90%

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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Options Housing Incorporated

Options bytown is a non-profit organization that provides supportive housing in ottawa on combining affordable housing with on-site counselling training and other services for people who need help to live independently. we help people who…

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2
The Ottawa Food Bank/La Banque D'alimentation D'ottawa

During this fiscal period the ottawa food bank (ofb) has actively pursued its mission to combat food insecurity through a range of charitable programs. the organization operates as a non-profit providing both fresh and non-perishable food…

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3
Ottawa Inner City Health Inc.

Ottawa inner city health inc. was established to provide health care and social support services to people living in ottawa affected by poverty substance use physical and mental illness. services are provided through a range of programs…

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4
Circles of Support and Accountability - Ottawa

Reintegration of former offenders.

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5
Care Centre Ottawa

Care centre ottawa exists to provide immediate relief in the form of food support to those facing food insecurity in the ottawa region with dignity and excellence while offering community and capacity building programming to help…

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6
Ottawa Neighbourhood Services

Ottawa Neighbourhood Services specializes in the collection and resale of previously owned goods that are donated by the community. ONS offers these articles as a free relief service to individuals in distress through disaster or in…

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7
John Howard Society of Ottawa

Reintegration of ex-offenders housing for adults and youth involved with the law programs that reduce crime and poverty while building self-sufficiency bail residence services literacy and basic skills programs semi-independent…

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8
Centre 507 Association of Ottawa

Centre 507 is an adult drop-in centre (available during the daytime overnight and weekends) which collaborates with partners to provide healthy meals a welcoming community and access to resources.

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9
Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre/Centre De Ressources De L'est D'ottawa

Resource navigation and referral programs: crisis intervention and support short term counselling emergency and baby food cupboard support for new immigrants poverty reduction. programs against violence: crisis support regional help lines…

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10
Matthew House Ottawa/la maison Matthew d'Ottawa

1.refuge service: at matthew house ottawa we provide a supportive family -like environment that offers much more then just shelter. each refugee claimant in our program receives comprehensive wrap-around support that includes a bed food…

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11
Immigrant Women Services Ottawa

Crisis intrvention service 6. 24-hour language interpretation & translation services 2. long & short term counselling 7. employment services: a)job search workshop b) computer training & c) english conversation 3. support group 8. language…

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12
Morrison Gardens Emergency Food Outlet

Distribution of donated food for families and individuals in need living in the catchment area designated by the main ottawa food bank. purchase of additional food items needed by clients.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Shepherds of Good Hope and the most unlike its peers is The Good Companions. 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

22 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. 22 of the 23 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)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
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 budgetDEBRA DYNES FAMILY HOUSE — C$27,542 over 4y, 4.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMEN — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER OTTAWA — C$11,661 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST. JOE'S WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetShepherds of Good Hope Foundation — C$8,100 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOUCESTOR EMERGENCY FOOD CUPBOARD — C$7,029 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetOperation Come Home — C$7,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetPINECREST-QUEENSWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$6,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYouth Services Bureau Charitable Foundation - WEYM — C$5,239 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GOOD COMPANIONS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOttawa Mission Foundation — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OTTAWA MISSION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. MARY'S HOME — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetVANIER COMMUNITY SERIVCES CENTRE — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDALHOUSIE FOOD ACTION GROUP — C$3,000 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetWELCOME FRIEND ASSOCIATION - RAINBOW CAMP — C$2,600 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetOTTAWA COMMUNITY HOUSING-HOP ON BIKES — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMIINWAASHIN LODGE - SACRED CHILD PROGRAM — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOLLABORATIVE JUSTICE PROGRAM — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetTwice Upon A Time — C$1,500 over 1y, 9.9% of budgetSoup Sisters — C$1,320 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARKDALE FOOD CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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.

Ottawa Community Foun…The Incorporated Syno…The Ottawa Food Bank/…Kids Up Front Foundat…TELUS Friendly Future…Wcpd FoundationFood Banks Canada/Ban…The Eastern Ontario &…Ottawa-Carleton Distr…The Roman Catholic Ep…Kiwanis Club of Ottaw…United Way East Ontar…
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON17.7× affinity17 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa · The Ottawa Food Bank/La Banque D'Alimentation D'Ottawa · Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa) · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · Wcpd Foundation · Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada · The Eastern Ontario & Western Quebec Christmas Cheer Foundat · Ottawa-Carleton District School Board · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Ottawa-Cornwall · Kiwanis Club of Ottawa Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario

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 23 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 2024-10-31, 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 829702190:2024-10-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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