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Ottawa, ON · Private foundation

Hallmark Giving

The foundation supports several local organizations with substantial funding initiative over approximately a 3 year time frame.

C$155k
Granted FY2024still arriving
20
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$25k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 20 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k15 grants · C$65k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$90k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$125k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
RESTORING HOPEC$25,000
OPERATION COME HOMEC$25,000
RED DOOR FAMILY SHELTERC$15,000
ONTARIO SHORES FOUNDATIONC$15,000
HELP LESOTHOC$10,000
THE SHOEBOX PROJECT FOR WOMENC$8,000
YOUTH HAVENC$5,000
YES SHELTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIESC$5,000
THE GOOD COMPANIONS CENTREC$5,000
SEASONS CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDRENC$5,000
LUKE'S PLACE SUPPORT AND RESOURCE CENTREC$5,000
HARVEST HOUSE MINISTRIESC$5,000
CARING & SHARING EXCHANGEC$5,000
BLAKE BOULTBEE YOUTH OUTREACHC$5,000
BASKET BRIGADE CANADAC$5,000
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.0M · 30 repeat orgsC$134k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +62% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

30 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

30
25

Total granted

C$1.0M
C$118k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+62%
+18%

Still filing today

97%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$16k 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

  • OC
    OPERATION COME HOME
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$309k · revenue +83%
  • HL
    HELP LESOTHO
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$205k · revenue +3%
  • RH
    RESTORING HOPE
    5× · 2020–2024 · C$136k · revenue +35%

Funded once

  • OF
    OTTAWA FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2020 · C$15k · revenue +10%
  • TO
    THE OTTAWA MISSIONgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$15k · revenue +126%
  • VF
    Voice Foundgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue ×34 · 28% of their budget

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.

1
OneMeal Inc.

Prepares and gives out food packages to homeless people in toronto

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2
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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3
The Hope Centre: Community Resources in Advocacy

Soup kitchen adult drop-in support short-term food assistance medical assistance housing help centre christmas baskets rental assistance and emergency beds transitional housing

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4
FOOD4KIDS Toronto

Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…

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5
London Cares Homeless Response Services

London Cares is a housing First initiative aimed at individuals experiencing chronic and persistent homelessness based on a highly collaborative community-based approach. London Cares provides 24/7 street outreach support engaging with…

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6
The People's Pantry Food Recovery Society

Healthy hamper program - collecting surplus food and provides nutritious recovered food hampers on a weekly basis to seniors single parents and at-risk youth who have been impacted by a variety of challenges

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7
North House

North house provides a wide range of housing and support programs for those who are at risk or in crisis within the communitied or north durham. the programs are aimed at helping low income families and individuals in need of subsidized…

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8
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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9
Toronto Cares Initiative

Homeless meals clothing drives produce market/food bank services Easter and Christmas gift programs back-to-school supplies and direct donation support through clients.

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10
Durham and District Foodbank

Relief of poverty providing food security to low income individuals and families

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11
Harvest House Community Outreach Centre Windsor

Provide overnight accommodation for homeless. drop-in center providing meals for those in need and for shut-ins. food bank outlet

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12
All Neighbours Network Inc.

Food bank meals to homeless and the intercity soup kitchen emergency hamper program.

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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 Simcoe Hall Settlement House. 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

58 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. 58 of the 59 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)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
58/58
Grantees still filing
46/58
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetOPERATION COME HOME — C$309,000 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetHELP LESOTHO — C$205,126 over 8y, 3.1% of budgetRESTORING HOPE — C$135,500 over 5y, 21% of budgetDAILY BREAD FOOD BANK — C$50,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE MINISTRIES — C$30,800 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCARING & SHARING EXCHANGE — C$30,000 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GOOD COMPANIONS CENTER — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetONTARIO SHORES FOUNDATION — C$23,535 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE SHOEWBOX PROJECT SIMCOE COUNTY — C$22,500 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetRED DOOR FAMILY SHELTER — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSHEPHERDS OF GOOD HOPE — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHELP OUR STUDENTS PROGRAM — C$17,000 over 2y, 9.7% of budgetOTTAWA FOOD BANK — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OTTAWA MISSION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTH HAVEN — C$14,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetLUKE'S PLACE SUPPORT AND RESOURCE CENTRE — C$13,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetVoice Found — C$10,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetBLUE SEA PHILANTHROPY INC — C$10,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetPHILIP AZIZ CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE GLEBE CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMEN — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetBASKET BRIGADE CANADA — C$10,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetPLEO — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetOttawa Intercity Ministries — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetFEED THE NEED DURHAM — C$9,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetThe Door Youth Centre — C$8,500 over 1y, 6.3% of budgetRICHMOND HILL FOOD BANK — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetSEASONS CENTER FOR GRIEVING CHILDREN — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBARRIE FOOD BANK — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetNEWMARKET FOOD PANTRY — C$7,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetThe Ottawa Mission — C$5,470 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetEXCELLENCE IN LITERACY FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetJERICHO ROAD — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetINNISFILL FOOD BANK — C$5,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTOTTENHAM FOOD BANK — C$5,000 over 4y, 1.4% of budgetBLAKE BOULTBEE YOUTH OUTREACH — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetYES SHELTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budget360 KIDS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCLARINGTON EAST FOOD BANK — C$4,250 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCANADAHELPS.COM (SEASONS CEENTRE FOR GREIVING CHILDRE — C$4,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetALLISTON-GOOD SHEPHERD FOOD BANK — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetBRADFORD-HELPING HAND FOOD BANK — C$4,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetAURORA FOOD BANK — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCOMMUNITY CENTRE 55 — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGREEK COMMUNITY OF TORONTO — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetPROCESS ALLIANCE MHCS TORONTO — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLEEDS & GRENVILLE INERVAL HOUSE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPROJECT HOSTEL — C$1,000 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.

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.

Ontario Realtors Care…Food Banks Canada/Ban…Ottawa Community Foun…Ontario Association o…Youth and Philanthrop…Hydro One Employees' …TELUS Friendly Future…The Incorporated Syno…The Tenaquip Foundati…The Albarrie Foundati…The Harry P Ward Foun…Taggart Parkes Founda…
Ontario Realtors Care FoundationON15.6× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada · Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · Ontario Association of Food Banks · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · TELUS Friendly Future Foundation - Fondation TELUS Pour un Futur Meilleur · The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa · The Tenaquip Foundation / la Fondation Tenaquip · The Albarrie Foundation · The Harry P Ward Foundation · Taggart Parkes 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.

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 59 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 827252859:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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