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Nepean, ON · Public foundation

Ottawa Dragon Boat Foundation

The charitable programs of our donees primarily focuses on providing opportunities to local st-risk children and youth through various recreation programs and camps.

C$72k
Granted FY2024still arriving
12
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 12 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$22k
  • C$10k–50k5 grants · C$50k
C$7,500
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$239k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
TIM HORTONS FOUNDATION CAMPSC$10,000
CHELSEA FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CHEO FOUNDATIONC$10,000
LOTUS CENTRE FOR SPECIAL MUSIC EDUCATIONC$10,000
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OTTAWAC$10,000
CHILDREN AT RISKC$7,500
OTTAWA THERAPY DOGSC$7,400
DRESS FOR SUCCESS OTTAWAC$2,500
MATTHEW HOUSEC$2,500
CANADIAN SKI PATROL - GATINEAU ZONEC$1,900
HELPING WITH FURNITUREC$485
BOYS AND GIRLS CLUBC$140
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$503k · 11 repeat orgsC$217k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +21% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 7 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
25

Total granted

C$503k
C$167k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+21%
+20%

Still filing today

91%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 31% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$50k 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

  • YS
    Youth Services Bureau
    2× · 2017–2022 · C$130k · revenue +36%
  • TH
    TIM HORTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$108k · revenue +5%
  • BA
    BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$65k · revenue +89%

Funded once

  • TH
    TIM HORTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$19k · revenue +2%
  • TS
    THE SNOWSUIT FUNDgraduated
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +95%
  • CL
    CHRISTIE LAKE KIDS
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -1%

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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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
Ronald McDonald House Ottawa Maison Ronald McDonald Ottawa

The charity provides accommodation and support to families of seriously ill children including oncology patients who are undergoing treatment at the children's hospital of eastern ontario.

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3
Ottawa First Responders Foundation

New programs. During this fiscal period the Ottawa First Responders Foundation (OFRF) continued to provide access to mental health services for first responders and their families in the Ottawa region. The Foundation directly funded…

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4
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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5
Trips for Kids Ottawa

Trips for kids ottawa (tfko) is a charitable organization that provides mountain bike outings and environmental education for kids who would not otherwise be exposed to such activities. at our outings we teach lessons in personal…

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6
Ottawa Dragon Boat Foundation

The charitable programs of our donees primarily focuses on providing opportunities to local st-risk children and youth through various recreation programs and camps. as well as various community programs and services related to food banks…

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7
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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8
Variety - the Children's Charity (Ontario)

Variety-The Children's Charity (Ontario) aims to break down barriers to accessibility for education sport fitness and improve the quality of life for individuals with a disability in Ontario. Areas of focus include specialized programs…

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9
Ottawa Network for Education/Reseau D'ottawa Pour L'education

Ottawa network for education fuels kids and ignites learning every school day. our mission is to inspire and support every child's learning journey in reaching their full potential by connecting community resources to help k-12 students…

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10
Kids in Camp

Kids in camp provides financial assistance to make it possible for children from low-income homes or with special health or other special needs to attend an ontario camps association camp. participating camps support the initiative by…

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11
Care Camps of Canada

Mission: To give joy hope and healing power of the outdoors to children with cancer and their families at a specialized oncology camp. Vision: With your help Care Camps will provide hope and healing to every child and family member…

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12
Outward Bound Canada

OBC delivers experiential education programs that cultivate resilience leadership connections and compassion through inspiring journeys of self discovery in the natural world. The majority of our programs take place while travelling…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ottawa Gatineau Youth Foundation La Fondation Jeunesse D'ottawa Gatineau and the most unlike its peers is Shelter Movers. 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

40 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. 40 of the 43 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
38/40
Grantees still filing
27/40
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 budgetYouth Services Bureau — C$130,000 over 2y, 11% of budgetTIM HORTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$107,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA — C$65,156 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOSEG FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOTTAWA SENATORS FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetHELPING WITH FURNITURE — C$22,762 over 5y, 6.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMEN — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTIM HORTON CHILDREN'S FOUNDATION — C$18,995 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOTTAWA ANGLICAN DAY PROGRAMS — C$15,000 over 2y, 15% of budgetAUSOME OTTAWA — C$15,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetLOTUS CENTRE FOR SPECIAL MUSIC EDUCATION — C$14,620 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetCANADIAN SKI PATROL — C$13,100 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE SNOWSUIT FUND — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OTTAWA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetCHRISTIE LAKE KIDS — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAREFOR HEALTH & COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDEBRA DYNES FAMILY HOUSE — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetCHELSEA FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCHEO FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOTTAWA FOOD BANK — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHELTER MOVERS OTTAWA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAMP OOCH AND CAMP TRILLIUM CORPORATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWAUPOOS FOUNDATION — C$9,800 over 1y, 7.1% of budgetOTTAWA THERAPY DOGS — C$7,400 over 1y, 6.5% of budgetTHE BRUYERE FOUNDATION — C$5,038 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE CARING AND SHARING EXCHANGE — C$5,037 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetOttawa Integrative Cancer Centre — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetYMCA-YWCA of the National Capital Region — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetA NEW DAY YOUTH AND ADULT SERVICES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCHILDREN AT RISK — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetChildren's Aid Foundation of Ottawa — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetSAINT JOSEPH'S PARISH — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetPLENTY CANADA — C$4,030 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetOTTAWA RIVERKEEPER — C$3,770 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNa'Amat Canada Ottawa — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetORKISTRA — C$2,535 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetBREAST CANCER ACTION — C$2,535 over 1y, 2.5% of budgetMATTHEW HOUSE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDNEY FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% 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 Harry P Ward Foun…Danbe Foundation Inc.Taggart Parkes Founda…Kids Up Front Foundat…The Minto Greenberg L…Wcpd FoundationJ.P. Bickell Foundati…Crabtree Foundation F…The Incorporated Syno…Kiwanis Club of Ottaw…Ottawa-Carleton Distr…
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON23.7× affinity28 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 Harry P Ward Foundation · Danbe Foundation Inc. · Taggart Parkes Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa) · The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Crabtree Foundation Fondation Crabtree · The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa · Kiwanis Club of Ottawa Foundation · Ottawa-Carleton District School Board

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 43 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 2024-09-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 867660201:2024-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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