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Ottawa, ON · Public foundation

Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa

The foundation pools charitable gifts in endowment or other funds from which amounts are made available for charitable distribution to meet a wide range of community needs and interests - the arts and other cultural activities scholarship medical and scienific research environmental concern and social issues.

C$20M
Granted FY2023
857
Grants FY2023
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Regions reached
C$2.1M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 857 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2023

  • Under C$10k548 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$10k–50k223 grants · C$4.8M
  • C$50k–250k73 grants · C$6.6M
  • C$250k+13 grants · C$7.2M
C$3,031
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$281M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION/LS FONDATION DE L'HOPC$2,097,400
Individual grant recipientC$1,375,000
SHOREFAST FOUNDATIONC$524,800
GREEN COMMUNITIES FOUNDATIONC$500,016
SHEPHERDS OF GOOD HOPE FOUDNATIONC$366,105
CANADIAN MUESUM OF NATUREC$358,237
ROYAL OTTAWA FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTHC$353,242
SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL OF OTTAWA (SPCO)C$338,373
CORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMENC$294,138
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF CANADAC$281,498
MATTHEW HOUSE REFUGE SERVICE (OTTAWA)INCC$257,270
CANADIAN ALLIANCE TO END HOMELESSNESSC$252,500
OTTAWA JEWSISH COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$250,000
PAL OTTAWAC$209,672
CARLETON UNIVERSITYC$172,934
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.

93%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$92M · 937 repeat orgsC$7.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +29% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

937 repeat relationships — 650 still active in FY2023, 287 since wound down; 123 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

937
388

Total granted

C$92M
C$4.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+29%
+21%

Still filing today

94%
72%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2.6M went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • TO
    THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION/LS FONDATION DE L'HOP
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$5.1M · revenue +94%
  • BA
    Boy and Girls Club of Ottawa
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$2.8M · revenue +89%
  • UO
    University of Ottawa
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$2.2M · revenue +39%

Funded once

  • CF
    CASA Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$503k · revenue -59%
  • FD
    Fondation de l'Hôpital Montfort
    one grant, 2020 · C$302k
  • LC
    London Community Foundationgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$249k · revenue +876%

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.

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Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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2
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/ Institut De Recherche De L'hopital D'ottawa

The ottawa hospital research institute is an independent health research facility closely affiliated with the ottawa hospital and the university of ottawa committed to excellence in the creation of scientific knowledge that contributes to…

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3
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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4
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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5
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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6
Canadian Network for Arts and Learning Foundation

Organization – the canadian network for arts & learning foundation was originally incorporated july 24 1996 under the name 'ontario arts education institute'. the name was changed to its current form on june 8 2012. mission to unite local…

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7
Canadian Career Development Foundation/Fondation Canadienne Pour L'avancement De La Carrire

Ccdf works to strengthen the field of career development through evidence-based research competency-based training of career practitioners/educators the development of innovative new approaches to service delivery and the promotion of…

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8
Ocad University Foundation
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9
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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10
Universities Canada Universités Canada

Universities canada is the national voice for canadian universities. universities canada represents 96 public and private not-for-profit universities and university degree-level colleges. we are a membership organization providing…

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11
Canadian Sport Foundation Fondation canadienne de sport

We deepen public understanding of a selection of intellectual topics in sport and educate the public about them.

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12
Ottawa Heart Institute Research Corporation/Corporation De Recherches De L'institut De Cardiologie D'ottawa

Ohirc conducts acquires solicits and accepts research funding to operate and maintain laboratories and a research facility. it's research programs are directed towards developing an increased understanding in cardiovascular disease its…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Jewish Family Services of Ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Tara Luz Danse. 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

1305 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. 1305 of the 1,448 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.

100
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
349
Early backer (in before they grew)
1254/1305
Grantees still filing
932/1305
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetTHE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION/LS FONDATION DE L'HOP — C$5,129,320 over 7y, 3.7% of budgetBoy and Girls Club of Ottawa — C$2,789,783 over 7y, 14% of budgetUniversity of Ottawa — C$2,238,183 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetMassawippi Conservation Trust — C$2,133,906 over 7y, 72% of budgetThe Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health — C$1,641,838 over 7y, 8.7% of budgetAdarsan Tzedakah Foundation — C$1,600,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetOttawa Jewish Community Foundation — C$1,568,000 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetSOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL OF OTTAWA (SPCO) — C$1,236,043 over 7y, 23% of budgetSeven Churches and Charitable Works Foundation — C$1,196,464 over 5y, 97% of budgetSHOREFAST FOUNDATION — C$1,134,000 over 6y, 16% of budgetCarleton University — C$1,050,330 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSomerset West Community Health Centre — C$1,042,505 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetMichener Awards Foundation — C$1,030,799 over 6y, 66% of budgetShepherds of Good Hope Foundation — C$1,002,815 over 7y, 11% of budgetCARE Canada — C$985,055 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetHospice Care Ottawa — C$859,846 over 7y, 3.3% of budgetWabano Centre for Aboriginal Health — C$797,290 over 7y, 2.6% of budgetJohn Howard Society Of Ottawa-Carleton — C$776,098 over 7y, 4.8% of budgetOttawa Riverkeeper / Garde-rivière des Outaouais — C$730,377 over 6y, 29% of budgetThe Bell's Corners Parish Of Christ Church — C$676,063 over 7y, 20% of budgetStudents On Ice Foundation — C$667,937 over 7y, 20% of budgetJewish Family Services of Ottawa — C$661,591 over 7y, 2.8% of budgetYouth Services Bureau of Ottawa Charitable Foundation — C$625,093 over 7y, 19% of budgetRideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre — C$608,503 over 7y, 14% of budgetDalhousie University — C$589,605 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLISGAR COLLEGIATE INSTITITE — C$573,478 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetSouth-East Ottawa Community Health Centre — C$555,324 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetThe Salvation Army, Ottawa Booth Centre — C$536,676 over 7y, 52% of budgetCHEO Foundation — C$534,106 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetThe Equality Fund — C$520,729 over 7y, 7.4% of budgetCanadian Unitarian Council — C$520,365 over 7y, 10% of budgetOTTAWA PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD — C$507,866 over 7y, 4.4% of budgetCASA Foundation — C$503,300 over 1y, 23% of budgetGREEN COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION — C$500,016 over 1y, 19% of budgetCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMEN — C$486,150 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetOttawa Regional Cancer Foundation — C$474,574 over 7y, 2.5% of budgetDEMENTIA SOCIETY OF OTTAWA AND RENFREW COUNTY — C$470,773 over 7y, 5.0% of budgetDave Smith Youth Treatment Centre — C$467,053 over 5y, 8.4% of budgetOttawa Food Bank/La Banque d'alimentation d'Ottawa — C$462,155 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetParkdale Food Centre — C$436,099 over 7y, 5.8% of budgetThe Ottawa Chamber Music Society / La Société de Musique — C$435,953 over 7y, 4.0% of budgetBRUYÉRE FOUNDATION INC — C$428,133 over 7y, 2.0% of budgetCHILD HAVEN INTERNATIONAL — C$423,018 over 7y, 4.2% of budgetOutCare Foundation/La Fondation OutCare — C$413,100 over 7y, 42% of budgetDoctors Without Borders Canada / Medecins sans Frontiere — C$413,058 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetQueensway-Carleton Hospital Foundation — C$411,101 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetCanadian Friends of Yeshiva University — C$400,000 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetOttawa Community Housing Foundation for Healthy — C$387,426 over 7y, 9.6% 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.

  • Who funds THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION/LS FONDATION DE L'HOP ↗
  • Who funds Boy and Girls Club of Ottawa ↗
  • Who funds University of Ottawa ↗
  • Who funds Massawippi Conservation Trust ↗
  • Who funds The Royal Ottawa Foundation for Mental Health ↗
  • Who funds Adarsan Tzedakah Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Ottawa Jewish Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL OF OTTAWA (SPCO) ↗
  • Who funds Seven Churches and Charitable Works Foundation ↗
  • Who funds SHOREFAST FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Carleton University ↗
  • Who funds Somerset West Community Health Centre ↗
  • Who funds Michener Awards Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Shepherds of Good Hope Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CARE Canada ↗
  • Who funds Hospice Care Ottawa ↗
  • Who funds Wabano Centre for Aboriginal Health ↗
  • Who funds John Howard Society Of Ottawa-Carleton ↗
  • Who funds Ottawa Riverkeeper / Garde-rivière des Outaouais ↗
  • Who funds The Bell's Corners Parish Of Christ Church ↗
  • Who funds Students On Ice Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Jewish Family Services of Ottawa ↗
  • Who funds Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa Charitable Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Rideau-Rockcliffe Community Resource Centre ↗
  • Who funds Dalhousie University ↗
  • Who funds LISGAR COLLEGIATE INSTITITE ↗
  • Who funds South-East Ottawa Community Health Centre ↗
  • Who funds The Salvation Army, Ottawa Booth Centre ↗
  • Who funds CHEO Foundation ↗
  • Who funds The Equality Fund ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Unitarian Council ↗
  • Who funds OTTAWA PUBLIC LIBRARY BOARD ↗
  • Who funds CASA Foundation ↗
  • Who funds GREEN COMMUNITIES FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMEN ↗
  • Who funds Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation ↗
  • Who funds DEMENTIA SOCIETY OF OTTAWA AND RENFREW COUNTY ↗

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.

The Harry P Ward Foun…Kids Up Front Foundat…Wesley M Nicol Founda…Danbe Foundation Inc.Taggart Parkes Founda…Ottawa-Carleton Distr…Kiwanis Club of Ottaw…The Minto Greenberg L…Crabtree Foundation F…The Incorporated Syno…The Ottawa Food Bank/…The Stephen and Jocel…
The Harry P Ward FoundationON36× affinity62 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The Harry P Ward Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa) · Wesley M Nicol Foundation · Danbe Foundation Inc. · Taggart Parkes Foundation · Ottawa-Carleton District School Board · Kiwanis Club of Ottawa Foundation · The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation · Crabtree Foundation Fondation Crabtree · The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa · The Ottawa Food Bank/La Banque D'Alimentation D'Ottawa · The Stephen and Jocelyne Greenberg Family 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 1448 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 119227981:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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