Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization
Friends of the National Arts Centre Orchestra/Les Amis de L'Orchestre Du Centre National Des Arts
Through memberships donations and fundraising events we support the nac orchestra's music educations initiatives and provide awards and grants to support young people's music programs and projects.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$7k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$26k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATION | C$26,000 |
| CARLETON UNIVERSITY | C$2,500 |
| THE KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL | C$1,500 |
| MASC | C$1,000 |
| YOUNG STRING PERFORMERS | C$1,000 |
| ORKIDSTRA - SISTEMA OTTAWA | C$1,000 |
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.
9 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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
- NANATIONAL ARTS CENTRE6× · 2017–2022 · C$155k · revenue +73%
- UOUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA2× · 2022–2023 · C$10k · revenue +28%
- OORKIDSTRA8× · 2017–2024 · C$8k · revenue +115%
Funded once
- NANATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2018 · C$11k
- NANATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATIONone grant, 2017 · C$10k
- OYOTTAWA YOUTH ORCHESTRA ACADEMYone grant, 2017 · C$1k
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.
Supports artists and art organizations
Funded in 1960 the organization is dedicated to the discovery & training of young musicians in advanced orchestral musicianship. programs include national auditions of prospective students and a summer session & national/international tour.
To provide student of music and speech arts a forum in which they can perform and are tested adjudicatedin a competitive environment of their peers.
Thirteen strings presents an annual concert season of music for string orchestra including works by canadian composers playing for audiences in the greater ottawa-gatineau area. the orchestra also promotes music education with its junior…
Promotion of local arts activities and opportunities including a billngual website that features and profiles artists and arts organizations. other programs include the annual arts awards; networking mentorship and professional development…
Provide music and orchestral experiences to the ottawa community
Live concerts increased marginally and educational programs experienced a drop in revenues due to a reduction in class sizes and an increase in student cancellations. rental revenue for live stream services incrreased as demand was higher…
Since its inception in 1963 the ontario arts council (oac) has played a vital role in promoting and supporting the development creation and production of the arts for the enjoyment and benefit of all ontarians. the oac has fostered the…
Research on orchestras Online job board for musicians and arts administrators Workshops conferences peer meetings and webinars for Arts Administrators and Board Members Newsletters websites and other resources for Orchestras Youth…
The primary aim of the ottawa symphony orchestra ('oso' or the 'orchestra') is to create memorable musical experiences that bring people together. they do this by performing large-scale repertoire including canadian music for the general…
The ontario band association (oba) is a network of music leaders dedicated to inspiring enriching and connecting students and educators to share explore and enhance the experience of music through bands. the oba hosts performance beginning…
Through memberships donations and fundraising events we support the nac orchestra's music educations initiatives and provide awards and grants to support young people's music programs and projects.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is National Arts Centre Corporation/Societe Du Centre National Des Arts and the most unlike its peers is Carleton University. 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 13 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 NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE ↗
- Who funds NATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA ↗
- Who funds ORKIDSTRA ↗
- Who funds YOUNG STRING PERFORMERS FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds KIWANIS MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds CARLETON UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA YOUTH ORCHESTRA ACADEMY ↗
- Who funds THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION MUSIC FESTIVAL ↗
- Who funds MASC ↗
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 · The Leacross Foundation/La Fondation Leacross · Crabtree Foundation Fondation Crabtree · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · 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.