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Ottawa, ON · Private foundation

Happy Roots Foundation

Supporting canadian registered charities that operate health and education programs aimed at promoting mental health and wellness in children.

C$817k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$350k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k2 grants · C$37k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$425k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$350k
C$75,020
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$8.5M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
PLAYFUL MINDSETC$350,000
SOUTH EAST OTTAWA COMMUNITY SERVICES INCC$200,000
CONNECTWELL COMMUNITY HEALTHC$150,000
FAMILY SERVICES OTTAWAC$75,020
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OTTAWAC$25,000
FORWARD GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY SOCIETYC$12,000
THE OTTAWA HOSPITALC$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.

68%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.8M · 9 repeat orgsC$838k to everyone else

9 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

9
24

Total granted

C$1.8M
C$276k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
96%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$562k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • CF
    CHEO FOUNDATION
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$1.0M · revenue +28%
  • CC
    CONNECTWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$315k · revenue +16%
  • FS
    FAMILY SERVICES OTTAWA
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$225k · revenue +5%

Funded once

  • CR
    CHEO RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    one grant, 2023 · C$50k · revenue +23%
  • AF
    ANDREW FLECK CHILDREN'S SERVICES
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +20%
  • BW
    BRITANNIA WOODS COMMUNITY HOUSE
    one grant, 2021 · C$15k · revenue +24%

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
Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario - Ottawa Children's Treatment Centre

CHEO is the national capital region's pediatric health and research centre offering a wide range of services: full-service 24-hour specialized children's hospital school and preschool autism therapy provider child and youth mental health…

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2
Everymind Mental Health Services

EveryMind Mental Health Services provides a continuum of high quality mental health services for children youth and families who are experiencing or may experience serious emotional difficulties. Services are provided using a variety of…

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3
Canadian Mental Health Association Waterloo Wellington Branch

Community based mental health services including: mental health promotion and intervention crisis intervention clinical therapeutic services children's (mental health and developmental) adults and seniors programs and community consultant…

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4
The Canadian Mental Health Association Ottawa Branch

The canadian mental health association ottawa branch aspires to provide client directed services and programs for people with mental health problems and to enchance promote and maintain the mental health of individuals and communities…

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5
Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa/Bureau Des Services a La Jeunesse D'ottawa

1) *mental health programs-counselling services*: service coordination intensive family support wraparound youth mental health walk-in clinic youth and family counselling bridges program 2) *mental health pgms – crisis services*: step up…

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6
Ottawa Parent Resource Centre

1. information and referral phone link linking parents caregivers and community professional serving children and families to community programs and resources. 2. a parent support phone line for parents seeking advice and counseling. 3.…

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7
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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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
Open Doors Mental Health for Children Youth & Families

Open doors for lanark children and youth provides counseling services to children and youth living in lanark county and experiencing children's mental health problems. the organization also purchases accommodation and care for children and…

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10
Centre Youville Centre Ottawa-Carleton Inc.

Located in ottawa youville centre is a non-profit registered charity that serves adolescent mothers and their children. youville's trauma-informed holistic programs and services include: crisis intervention intensive mental health therapy…

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11
Osborne House Inc.

Support services include 24 hour crisis line counselling children's counselling and follow up services for women and children that have been abused by an intimate partner.

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12
Ottawa Rape Crisis Centre

Service to survivors of sexual and gender-based violence in the city of ottawa and the surrounding areas. 24 hour crisis line public education outreach hospital police and court accompaniment and client advocacy.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Family Services a La Famille Ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Forward Global Philanthropy Society. 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

35 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. 35 of the 36 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
28/35
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHEO FOUNDATION — C$1,000,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCONNECTWELL COMMUNITY HEALTH — C$315,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetFAMILY SERVICES OTTAWA — C$225,020 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetSOUTH EAST OTTAWA COMMUNITY SERVICES INC — C$200,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OTTAWA — C$75,015 over 5y, 1.6% of budgetCHEO RESEARCH INSTITUTE — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLANARK COUNTY INTERVAL HOUSE — C$50,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOTTAWA NETWORKS FOR EDUCATION — C$25,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetANDREW FLECK CHILDREN'S SERVICES — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetPARENT'S LIFELINES OF EASTERN ONTARIO FAMILY MENTAL HEALTH S — C$25,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetBIG BROTHER BIG SISTERS OF LANARK COUNTY — C$25,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBRITANNIA WOODS COMMUNITY HOUSE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLE CAP: CENTRE D'APPUI ET DE PREVENTION — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFORWARD GLOBAL PHILANTHROPY SOCIETY — C$12,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA — C$10,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetNELSON HOUSE OF OTTAWA CARLETON — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetYOUTH SERVICES BUREAU OF OTTAWA CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetST MATTHEW'S HARMONY HOUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetSMITH FALLS COMMUNITY FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetOTTAWA FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CARING AND SHARING EXCHANGE — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.1% of budgetWESTERN ONTARIO COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOTTAWA DISTRESS CENTRE AND REGION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetMINWAASHIN LODGE - INDIGENOUS WOMEN'S SUPPORT CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE OF OTTAWA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetLANARK COUNTY FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetTHE OTTAWA HOSPITAL — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROAD CHILDRENS MENTAL HEALTH — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS OTTAWA — C$9,985 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetROYAL OTTAWA FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLOWERTOWN COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADAHELP — C$2,004 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE FAM NETWORK — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.5% 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…Kids Up Front Foundat…Senators Community Fo…Ottawa-Carleton Distr…Ottawa Gatineau Youth…Ontario Realtors Care…Wcpd FoundationThe Leacross Foundati…Taggart Parkes Founda…Royal Lepage Shelter …Quickie Community Fou…
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON21.5× affinity24 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 · Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa) · Senators Community Foundation / Fondation communautaire des Senateurs · Ottawa-Carleton District School Board · Ottawa Gatineau Youth Foundation la Fondation Jeunesse D'Ottawa Gatineau · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · The Leacross Foundation/La Fondation Leacross · Taggart Parkes Foundation · Royal Lepage Shelter Foundation · Quickie Community Foundation - Fondation Communautaire Quickie

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 36 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 710172289:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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