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Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization

Helpage Canada - / Aide Aux Aînes (Canada)

Men's sheds: a men's shed is a community -based group open to all providing a safe friendly inclusive environment to gather and raticipate in group activities.

C$1.0M
Granted FY2024still arriving
27
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$730k
Largest
01What it fundsRead
02The needRead
03Its granteesRead
04Its fieldRead
01What it funds
01FY2024 · 27 grants

Where the money goes

Grants by size, and the largest recipients.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k4 grants · C$25k
  • C$10k–50k22 grants · C$262k
  • C$250k+1 grant · C$730k
C$10,000
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$1.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Individual grant recipientC$730,000
Individual grant recipientC$21,755
MEN'S SHED ASSOCIATION OF BCC$20,000
COUNCIL ON AGING OF OTTAWAC$20,000
ALBERTA MEN'S SHED ASSOCIATIONC$20,000
CARYA SOCIETY OF CALGARY (CARYA)C$10,000
SOU'WEST NOVA TRANSIT ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
NEVER ALONE CANCER FOUNDATIONC$10,000
MEALS ON WHEELS LONDONC$10,000
MAWI TA'MK SOCIETYC$10,000
LES PETITS FRÈRESC$10,000
LA PORTE JAUNE/ THE YELLOW DOORC$10,000
DESERT VALLEY HOSPICE SOCIETYC$10,000
AGE FRIENDLY LAKE SOCIETYC$10,000
CAPITAL REGION MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICTIONS ASSOCIATIONC$10,000
02The need
02

Where the grant dollars land

At home and around the world.

Giving at home: 26% of grant dollars (C$984k). The 74% that went abroad (C$2.8M) is mapped below.

Which regions its grants reach

Ontario
C$254k
British Columbia
C$167k
Manitoba
C$149k
Quebec
C$145k
Alberta
C$135k
Nova Scotia
C$72k
New Brunswick
C$23k
Saskatchewan
C$20k
Newfoundland and Labrador
C$7k
Northwest Territories
C$2k

Beyond home: 74% of all-years giving (C$2.8M)

5 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore
UAC$1.3M · 1 grant
GBC$730k · 1 grant
MoldovaC$404k · 2 grants
PolandC$340k · 1 grant
USC$4k · 1 grant
How this is measured
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
03Its grantees
repeat funding

Who it funds again

Organizations funded in more than one year, against those funded once.

83%of every dollar goes to organizations it has funded before.
C$3.2M · 28 repeat orgsC$642k to everyone else

Grantees it renews have grown median revenue +27% since the first grant, against +16% for those funded once.

28 repeat relationships: 8 still active in FY2024, 20 since wound down; 18 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
71

Total granted

C$3.2M
C$442k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+16%

Still filing today

96%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$200k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’20’21’22’23’24
RenewedFirst-time
How this is measured
First-time means a grantee’s first year in the filing window; renewed means funded in an earlier year too. The renewed share climbs naturally as a portfolio matures, so the signal is a year that bucks it (a wave of new grantees). The earliest year is left-censored: relationships that predate the data read as new.

Backed again, and grew

  • CD
    CHRISTIAN DIRECTION INC.
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$47k · revenue +37%
  • TG
    THE GOOD COMPANIONS
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$30k · revenue +3%
  • SS
    SAGE SENIORS ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2021–2023 · C$25k · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CE
    CENTRAIDE ESTRIE (CONSEIL RÉGIONAL DE BIEN-ÊTRE DE SHERBROOK
    one grant, 2021 · C$23k · revenue -8%
  • SC
    SCHUBERT CENTRE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2021 · C$18k · revenue +16%
  • QC
    QUEBEC COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$12k · revenue +269% · 42% of their budget
How this is measured

Repeat means funded in two or more distinct years. Growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Its field

Closest unfunded matches

The nonprofits that most resemble its grantees but are not funded by it, scored along the direction from the rest of the field toward the portfolio. A resemblance in what they say they do, not a recommendation.

1
Renfrew and Area Seniors' Home Support Inc

Community based home support services for seniors and adults living with disabilities including: transportation friendly visiting telephone security and assurance home maintenance frozen meals grocery delivery intervention and assistance…

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2
Good Neighbours Active Living Centre Inc.

Providing programs services and opportunities for social interaction that enhance the quality of life for individuals 55+. home maintenance community outreach prevention of elder abuse hot congregate meal programs seniors resource finder…

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3
St. Clair West Services for Seniors Inc.

Case management, crisis intervention, meals on wheels, day programs, escort and transportation, congregation dinning, home help, aging at home, community development, elderly persons centre, exercise and fall prevention

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4
Senior Peoples' Resources in North Toronto Incorporated

SPRINT Senior Care is a not-for-profit neighborhood agency providing home support and community services to seniors in North Toronto. SPRINT purpose is to sustain independent living; encourage participation in community life; enhance the…

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5
Senior Support Services-Lanark Leeds & Grenville

Community support services delivered to seniors & caregivers to enable them to remain living in their homes and communities for as long and safely as possible. ongoing services: adult day program meals on wheels; essential transportation;…

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6
Seniors Outreach Program

The society offers programs to senior resident in the areas of transportation community service assistance visiting and mentoring health and well-being as well as a drop-in centre.

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7
Senior Persons Living Connected

Senior persons living connected provides services to seniors in the community. these services include: alzheimer programs chinese and greek day programs congregate dining meals on wheels transportation supportive housing security checks…

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8
Carman Community Seniors Resource Council Inc.

Senior services: meal programs transportation services equipment loan program tenant coordinator services home maintenance provider referrals assistance completing forms and income tax returns health and safety work shops fitness programs.

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9
North York Seniors Centre

1. active living centre: provides recreational and social programs for seniors including multicultural activities; health programs; foot care; income tax assistance; computer training; dancing; physical exercises; educational program and…

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10
Quadra Circle Community Connections Society

Service: Senior Activity Centre - games activities exercises lunch talks Service: Home meals - pick up and delivery of meals and food bank Service: Seniors Resource Centre - transportation (groceries activity centre medical appointments)…

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11
Barry's Bay & Area Senior Citizens Home Support Services

Volunteer transportation to medical appointments Banking Shopping Telephone Assurance Frozen meals program Hot meals on wheels supportive housing for seniors in social housing and assisted living services for high risk seniors in own home…

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12
Senior Citizens Opportunity Neighbourhood Association

Senior programs and services intergenerational programs

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How this is measured
The grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Calgary Seniors Resource Society; the most unlike its peers is Minnedosa Heritage Inc.. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
03the grantee network

104 grantees tracked through their own filings, 2017–2024.

Each grant beside the grantee’s revenue from every source, year by year.

How this is measured

Counted here: distinct organizations funded across 2017 to 2024, not grant rows in a single year, so this will not match the grant count on the cover. 104 of the 117 grantees resolved in that span have returns of their own we could reconcile.

Each grantee is resolved to its own CRA returns. Association, dated; never a causal claim.

2
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
102/104
Grantees still filing
71/104
Grew since first funded

Each grantee by its size and the funder’s share of it; top left is load-bearing

25%50%75%100%C$100kC$1.0MC$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ funder's share of their budgetSPINAL CORD INJURY ONTARIO: C$51,324 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetCHRISTIAN DIRECTION INC.: C$46,500 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetTHE GOOD COMPANIONS: C$30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetSAGE SENIORS ASSOCIATION: C$24,625 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetCENTRAIDE ESTRIE (CONSEIL RÉGIONAL DE BIEN-ÊTRE DE SHERBROOK: C$23,467 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHINESE COMMUNITY POLICING CENTRE: C$20,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetCAPITAL REGION MENTAL HEALTH & ADDICITIONS INC: C$20,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCOUNCIL ON AGING OF OTTAWA: C$20,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetAGE FRIENDLY LAKE SOCIETY: C$20,000 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetSPENCER HOUSE SENIOR CENTRE: C$17,720 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetSCHUBERT CENTRE SOCIETY: C$17,500 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetNEVER ALONE CANCER FOUNDATION: C$17,075 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetCARTIER SENIOR CITIZEN SUPPORT COMMITTEE: C$16,750 over 2y, 7.2% of budgetCALGARY SENIORS' RESOURCE SOCIETY: C$15,100 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetDARTMOUTH SENIORS: C$15,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetSOU'WEST NOVA TRANSIT ASSOCIATION: C$15,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetINDO CANADIAN WOMEN'S ASSOCIATION: C$15,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetBURNABY NEIGHBOURHOOD HOUSE: C$13,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetKERBY ASSEMBLY: C$12,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetQUEBEC COMMUNITY HEALTH AND SOCIAL SERVICES FOUNDATION: C$12,000 over 1y, 42% of budgetSASKATOON COUNCIL ON AGING INC.: C$12,000 over 2y, 2.8% of budgetPAS DE LA RUE: C$12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetWEST END SENIOR' NETWORK SOCIETY: C$11,000 over 2y, 1.0% of budgetLIVING INDEPENDENCE OF ELDERS (L.I.F.E.) INC.: C$11,000 over 1y, 5.1% of budgetTHE OLD FORGE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE: C$10,568 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetABBEYFIELD HOUSES SOCIETY OF TORONTO: C$10,000 over 1y, 3.2% of budgetMAWI TA'MK SOCIETY: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOLDER ADULT CENTRE ASSOCIATION OF ONTARIO (OACAO): C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetACTIVE ADULT CENTRE OF MISSISSAUGA (AACM): C$10,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetMEALS ON WHEELS LONDON: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCARYA SOCIETY OF CALGARY (CARYA): C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLA PORTE JAUNE/ THE YELLOW DOOR: C$10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetBRELLA COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetPORTAGE SERVICE FOR SENIORS: C$10,000 over 1y, 2.4% of budgetDESERT VALLEY HOSPICE SOCIETY: C$10,000 over 1y, 4.4% of budgetWESTEND SENIORS ACTIVITY CENTRE: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetLUSO COMMUNITY SERVICES: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetSOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL OTTAWA: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetLES PETITS FRÈRES: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetABUHURIARA CENTRE: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetSHELLEY CARES FOUNDATION: C$10,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetPARKGATE COMMUNITY SERVICES SOCIETY: C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetHAMILTON COMMUNITY ASSOCIATION: C$10,000 over 1y, 1.4% of budgetMETIS NATION OF ONTARIO CULTURAL COMMISSION: C$10,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetLANGLEY MEALS ON WHEELS: C$10,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetGWEN SECTER CREATING LIVING: C$9,814 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetNORTHERN ASSOCIATION OF COMMUNITY COUNCILS: C$9,767 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetU-TURN PARKINSON'S: C$9,650 over 1y, 4.7% of budget
Grantee by grantee: a decade per organization, before and after funding

A decade per grantee: revenue shaded, grants as bars, all rows on one timeline.

Co-funders

Grantmakers whose grantees overlap with this funder’s far more than size alone predicts. Closer means stronger alignment; arcs show where they also fund each other. Here they form a tightly interlocked group: most of these funders back each other's grantees too.

Petro-Canada CareMake…Home Instead CharitiesRight To FoodFondation Grace Dart/…Rotary Club of Calgar…Thomas Sill Foundatio…The Canadian Bridge F…Canadian Women's Foun…Alexandra Foundation …The Canadian Red Cros…Second Harvest Canada…Lindsay Memorial Foun…
Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-CanadaAB15.1× affinity14 shared granteesties to 9 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Petro-Canada CareMakers Foundation Fondation Proches Aimants Petro-Canada · Home Instead Charities · Right To Food · Fondation Grace Dart/Grace Dart Foundation · Rotary Club of Calgary at Stampede Park - Community Service Fund · Thomas Sill Foundation Inc. · The Canadian Bridge Federation Charitable Fund · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · Alexandra Foundation for Neighbourhood Houses · The Canadian Red Cross Society / la Societe Canadienne de la Croix-Rouge · Second Harvest Canada Deuxième Récolte Canada · Lindsay Memorial Foundation

How this is measured
Affinity is a Gamma-Poisson posterior co-funding rate, re-centered on the typical rate, so thin evidence shrinks toward no signal. Overlap is association, not proof of shared intent.

On method. Every financial figure here is read from the Canada Revenue Agency’s published T3010 data, the funder’s own annual information return, and from the multi-year returns of the 117 grantees we resolved, each linked to its source. Grantee outcomes are each organization’s own program description on its T3010, read as association with funding, never as caused by it. Low-confidence name matches are suppressed rather than guessed. How we build these →

How this is measured
Each figure carries one of six labels. Filed is what the funder reported on its 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.

Generated from the T3010 annual information return for the fiscal period ending 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 118955921:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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