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Ottawa, ON · Private foundation

Mind on Development

The charity has continued donating to environmental youth and international support programs.

C$29k
Granted FY2024still arriving
13
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$249k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
IndspireC$5,000
Debra Dynes Family HouseC$3,000
Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation InitiativeC$3,000
Environmental Youth AllianceC$2,500
Humanitarian CoalitionC$2,000
Nature Trust of New BrunswickC$2,000
Alpha House SocietyC$2,000
Mind Your PlasticC$2,000
Habitat for HumanityC$2,000
Ottawa Dragonboat FoundationC$2,000
InterParesC$1,500
Watersheds CanadaC$1,000
The Dharma Centre of CanadaC$500
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$116k · 12 repeat orgsC$25k to everyone else

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

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
9

Total granted

C$116k
C$19k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+69%
+86%

Still filing today

100%
89%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 77% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k 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

  • HF
    Habitat for Humanity
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$21k · revenue +23%
  • YT
    Yellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$21k · revenue +693%
  • I
    INDSPIRE
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$15k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • TN
    THE NEIGHBOURHOOD GROUPgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +51%
  • I
    Indspire
    one grant, 2023 · C$4k
  • CF
    CANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$3k · revenue -80%

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
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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2
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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3
Nature United/ Nature Unie

Nature united is a canadian charity affiliated with the nature conservancy which works globally to conserve the lands and waters on which all life depends. we strive for a world where healthy communities and sustainable development drive…

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4
The Toronto and Region Conservation Authority / Office De Protection De La Nature De Toronto

TRCA works to protect conserve and restore natural resources within its jurisdiction for the benefit of current and future generations. TRCA provides programs and services that support healthy rivers and shorelines sustainable communities…

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5
Environment Funders Canada / Philanthropie Canadienne pour l'environnement

All of environment funders canada's programs are designed to expand the scope and effectiveness of grantmaking in support of the canadian environment and to support a vibrant network of philanthropic and other funders working individually…

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6
Generate Canada Inc.

Generate Canada is a national charity that connects problem-solvers across sectors and value chains to generate solutions to the most complex challenges at the nexus of environment economy and society. The organization’s vision is a strong…

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7
Canadian Parks and Wilderness Society/La Société pour la nature et les parcs du Canada

A) Terrestrial Parks and Protected Areas Program - To establish new and expanded terrestrial protected areas while protecting nature in our existing parks; - To protect wilderness ecosystems across Canada; and - To educate Canadians about…

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8
Freshwater Conservation Canada

Freshwater conservation canada is committed to conserving protecting and restoring canada's freshwater ecosystems and their coldwater resources for current and future generations. programs and projects are delivered by our professional…

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9
Td Friends of the Environment Foundation

Td friends of the environment foundation (tdfef) is a national charity that funds environmental projects across canada. with the support from our donors td fef has provided more than $117 million to over 29 000 environmental projects and…

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10
Nature-Based Solutions Foundation

Protecting canada's most endangered ecosystems by acquiring and managing funds to address key funding gaps through: supporting land-embedded communities and qualified donees with grants and facilitating access to other funding sources to…

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11
EcoSchools Canada

EcoSchools Canada delivers programs to advance environmental education and leadership in K-12 schools across Canada. Ongoing programs include a certification program for K-12 schools that promotes and recognizes environmental learning and…

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12
Cooperation Canada - Coopération Canada

Cooperation Canada is Canada's national association of international development and humanitarian organizations. Cooperation Canada brings together and advocates for effective Canadian international development assistance by convening…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Habitat for Humanity Canada/Habitat Pour L'humanitÉ Canada and the most unlike its peers is Tisarana Buddhist Monastery. 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

24 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. 24 of the 25 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)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
19/24
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 budgetHabitat for Humanity — C$21,400 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetYellowstone to Yukon Conservation Initiative — C$20,500 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetENVIRONMENTAL YOUTH ALLIANCE — C$10,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetINTER PARES — C$9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetPLASTIC OCEANS — C$9,000 over 6y, 1.3% of budgetOttawa Dragon Boat Foundation — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetDebra Dynes Family House — C$8,000 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetBirds Canada — C$6,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NEIGHBOURHOOD GROUP — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWATERSHEDS CANADA — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAlpha House Society — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Alliance to End Homelessness — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNature Conservancy Canada — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHumanitarian Coalition — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHelping with Furniture — C$2,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetNature Trust of New Brunswick — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHERAPEUTIC RIDING ASSOCIATION OF OTTAWA-CARLETON INC. — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetEnvironmental Defence Canada — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTisarana Buddhist Monastery — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetAlberta Ecotrust Foundation — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetOTTAWA SHAMBHALA CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Dharma Centre of Canada — C$500 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Fondation Écho /Echo …United Way Hastings &…Raymond James Canada …The McLean FoundationMakeway FoundationUnited Way East Ontar…BenefAction FoundationUnited Way of the Alb…Charitable Gift Funds…Td Friends of the Env…The Calgary Foundation
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON11× affinity9 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 · Fondation Écho /Echo Foundation · United Way Hastings & Prince Edward Inc. · Raymond James Canada Foundation · The McLean Foundation · Makeway Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · BenefAction Foundation · United Way of the Alberta Capital Region · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Td Friends of the Environment Foundation · The Calgary 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 25 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 848631370:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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