Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization
British Isles Family History Society of Greater Ottawa
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Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| City of Ottawa | C$500 |
| Ontario Genealogical Society | C$490 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against -15% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 11 since wound down.
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.
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
- COCITY OF OTTAWA8× · 2017–2024 · C$2k · revenue +79% · 40% of their budget
- TOTHE ONTARIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY3× · 2018–2024 · C$1k · revenue +29%
- PAPONTIAC ARCHIVES6× · 2017–2022 · C$1k · revenue ×14
Funded once
- FOFRIENDS OF LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADAone grant, 2019 · C$160
- TBTHE BYTON MUSEUMone grant, 2018 · C$160 · revenue -15%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Conducted and supported historical research in hastings county
Achives of documents and photos Guest Speakers Open house Research Preservation Fall Fair
The promotion of public interest in the history of harriston and the surrounding area. we maintain historical records do historical research collecting and displaying artifacts and memorabilia.
Local guest speaker programs to reflect the history of the township and area to foster appreciation of the area and its history and connections to historical events. we also keep records of the local families in the area to preserve our…
The grimsby historical society's purpose is to preserve promote and share the history and stories of grimsby through the archives speaker series newsletters publications social media community outreach and website with researchers and the…
Historic research - published newsletters organized public meetings at markham museum assisted markham museum with collecting artifacts & at public events
Monthly meetings continued with speakers bringing historical information about our community and surrounding area
Maintaining 3 heriage-based websites maintaining archival and artifact collections
Discover collect and preserve any material which may help to establish or illustrate the history of the waterford and former townsend township to encourage research into the above named areas to foster the interest and awareness of people…
Research promotion and celebreation of local history - print material website events and research -operate a research centre and museum space
Providing assistance in researching family connections to the former township
The kghs holds 10 monthly meetings and publishes monthly newsletters. kghs financially supports and operates the kingsville archives where historical records documents books maps and photos and cataloged digitized and properly stored by a…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Goulbourn Township Historical Society and the most unlike its peers is Archives Du Pontiac/Pontiac Archives. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
10 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. 10 of the 15 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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 CITY OF OTTAWA ↗
- Who funds THE ONTARIO GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds RIDEAU TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds PONTIAC ARCHIVES ↗
- Who funds HISTORICAL SOCIETY OF OTTAWA ↗
- Who funds GLOUCESTER HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds LANARK COUNTY GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds GOLBOURN TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds HUNTLEY TOWNSHIP HISTORICAL SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds THE BYTON MUSEUM ↗
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 set of overlaps that mostly run through you, not between each other.
Open a dossier: Canadahelps Canadon
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.