Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization
Dominion-Chalmers United Church
We hold weekly worship services (in person and online).
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k3 grants · C$20k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| Ottawa Innercity Ministry | C$10,000 |
| The Ottawa Mission | C$7,000 |
| Centre 507 | C$7,000 |
| Centretown Emergency Food Centre | C$6,000 |
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 +64% since the first grant, against +3% for the ones you funded once.
13 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
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, 20% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$24k 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
- UCUNITED CHURCH OF CANADA MISSION & SERVICE FUND6× · 2017–2022 · C$37k · revenue +22%
- OIOttawa Innercity Ministry4× · 2017–2023 · C$8k · revenue +71%
- CHCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMEN2× · 2017–2018 · C$6k · revenue +381% · 73% of their budget
Funded once
- PTPower to Change - Connecting Streams Ottawaone grant, 2023 · C$5k
- OORKIDSTRAgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$4k · revenue +115%
- OCOttawa Centre Refugee Actionone grant, 2023 · C$3k
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.
Capital city mission inc. (ccm) operates a drop-in centre in ottawa's lowertown. we support everyone - irrespective of race religion gender and sexual orientation - as they deal with physical social and spiritual needs. through friendship…
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…
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…
Provide a choice of permanent affordable housing and or ongoing flexible support to individuals with long-term mental health illness. to assist the individuals to live at their optimal level of functioning within the community.
Serving free meals providing various other services such as crisis intervention and social activities.
The charity operates a 58 bed homeless shelter a 20 unit supportive housing complex a warming centre for homeless people a day program for homeless people an outreach program for homeless people and a motel voucher program.
Church services and community outreach
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…
To advance religion by teaching religious tenets doctrines and observances associated with Christian faith. Maintaining a house of worship with services held in accordance with the tenets and doctrines of the Christian faith.
Outflow ministry is a 24 hour shelter that serves nearly 600-800 meals per week. our acts of kindness include a food pantry emergency assistance including rent housing utilities identification advocacy dental care transportation and…
To provide inspiration experiences and personal relationships with volunteer role models -saturday playhouse in overbrook area (bus pick up food and activities included) -weekly home visits to registered families in low income areas to…
The Association's objectives are as follows: 1. To alleviate poverty by supplying essential resources including food and clothing toindividuals and families with low incomes. 2. To relieve poverty by providing affordable residential…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ottawa Innercity Ministries and the most unlike its peers is Help Lesotho. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 27 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 UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA MISSION & SERVICE FUND ↗
- Who funds Ottawa Innercity Ministry ↗
- Who funds CORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMEN ↗
- Who funds YOUVILLE ↗
- Who funds ORKIDSTRA ↗
- Who funds MISSION AVAIATION FELLOWSHIP ↗
- Who funds CENTRETOWN CHURCHES SOCIAL COMMITTEE ↗
- Who funds CENTRE 507 ↗
- Who funds SHEPPARDS OF GOOD HOPE ↗
- Who funds HELP LESOTHO ↗
- Who funds THE BRIDGE ↗
- Who funds THE MISSION ↗
- Who funds PARKDALE UNITED CHURCH ↗
- Who funds DAYBREAK HOUSING ↗
- Who funds URBAN CHRISTIAN OUTREACH ↗
- Who funds SOUTHMINSTER UNITED CHURCH ↗
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.
Open a dossier: Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · St Peter and St Paul's Anglican Church Ottawa · St Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church · The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa · Centretown United Church · Southminster United Church · The Eastern Ontario & Western Quebec Christmas Cheer Foundat · Fourth Avenue Baptist Church · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Ottawa-Cornwall · Canadian National Christian Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation
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.