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Nepean, ON · Charitable organization

Ottawa Buddhist Society

We provided meditation and teaching sessions twice monthly as well as monthly full day sessions which are led by Buddhist monks or lay teachers.

C$22k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$14k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$7k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$14k
C$4,264
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$100k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Tisarana Buddhist MonasteryC$14,248
Buddhist Congress of CanadaC$4,264
Sati Saraniya HermitageC$2,673
Birken General Giving FundC$351
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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$325k · 6 repeat orgsC$27k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +132% since the first grant, against +23% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
4

Total granted

C$325k
C$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+132%
+23%

Still filing today

100%
50%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • TB
    Tisarana Buddhist Monastery
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$205k · revenue +718% · 33% of their budget
  • SS
    Sati Saraniya Hermitage
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$48k · revenue +183%
  • AR
    Arrow River Forest Hermitage
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$33k · revenue +22% · 26% of their budget

Funded once

  • UN
    United Nations World Food Programme
    one grant, 2022 · C$15k
  • OF
    Ottawa Food Bank
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +23%
  • OM
    OTTAWA MONTHLY MEETING RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS
    one grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue +20%

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
Ottawa Theravada Buddhist Vihara and Cultural Center Inc.

Meditation programs Online & in-person Dhamma discussions

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2
Ottawa Buddhist Society

We provided meditation and teaching sessions twice monthly as well as monthly full day sessions which are led by Buddhist monks or lay teachers. We normally provide 2-4 residential retreats where participants can live in silence and…

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3
Buddhist Women's Sangha of Ontario

Public meditation sessions Saturday morning and Wednesday evenings - meditation and discussions Daily morning and Wednesday evening Zoom meditation meetings Program meetings monthly Continued support of Buddhist monasteries hermitages and…

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4
Waterloo Riverview Dharma Centre

- 2 weekly classes of advanced meditation instruction (each with 3 x 16-week sessions per year) -- hybrid in-person/online - 2 annual meditation/spiritual residential retreats - Introduction to Meditation class (8-week session) offered in…

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5
Kadampa Meditation Centre Ottawa

Kadampa Meditation Centre Ottawa is open and run by volunteers to educate the general public about the Buddhist faith. We run a Foundation Program class once/week— Advanced teachings on Buddhism for the public We run General Program…

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6
Buddhist Society of Ontario

Advancing the teachings of Buddhist religion to adherents of the Buddhist faith and general public and maintaining a house of worship. Sermons conducted by Monks on a daily basis Meditation sessions and Retreats Performing religious…

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7
Canada Chung Tai Shan Buddhist Foundation

We remain dedicated to providing two essential online programs: Meditation Practice and Dharma Study. These offerings create a structured environment for learning the core teachings of Zen Buddhism and integrating them into daily life. Our…

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8
Lama Yeshe Ling Tibetan Buddhist Group

We facilitate traditional Dharma teachings discussion groups and meditation practices in the Burlington/ Hamilton area and Toronto. 1. Offering traditional and accessible approaches to Buddha’s teachings 2. Offering introduction to…

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9
Vajrayana Buddhism Association of B.C.

Offer buddhism teaching/meditation classes for buddhism philosophy & religion advancment

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10
Udayarama Centre for Buddhist Studies

1 Daily Buddha pooja & chating in Sinhala 2 We held meditation classess every Sunday in Singhala 3 Tuesday & Thursday teaching are held in Evening The teachings of the Buddha were codified by his followers into three baskets or 'pitakas'.…

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11
Triratna Buddhist Community Vancouver Society

We continue to offer opportunities for the membership to meditate together practice our ritual. we gather as a sanjha that promotes spiritual friendship and growth. we have ongoing weekly and monthly at our centre and on zoom.

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12
The Amitabha Buddhist Society of Toronto

Lecturing/viewing of buddhism teaching vedios and zoom meetings

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Buddhist Congress of Canada and the most unlike its peers is The Ottawa Food Bank/La Banque D'alimentation D'ottawa. 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

8 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. 8 of the 10 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
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Early backer (in before they grew)
8/8
Grantees still filing
7/8
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetTisarana Buddhist Monastery — C$204,537 over 8y, 33% of budgetSati Saraniya Hermitage — C$47,771 over 8y, 13% of budgetArrow River Forest Hermitage — C$33,328 over 5y, 26% of budgetBuddhist Congress of Canada — C$29,840 over 8y, 20% of budgetOttawa Food Bank — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetVietnamese Canadian Buddhist Association — C$8,425 over 2y, 10% of budgetOTTAWA MONTHLY MEETING RELIGIOUS SOCIETY OF FRIENDS — C$1,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBirken General Giving Fund — C$655 over 2y, 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.

United Way East Ontar…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'OntarioON4.8× affinity4 shared granteesties to 4 of 4Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · 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.

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 10 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 charitable organization under other religions.

Source object 119071256:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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