Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization
Ottawa Humane Society
The OTTAWA HUMANE SOCIETY is a safe haven for homeless animals and a community leader creating learning opportunities and engaging with the community to help pet owners better care for animals.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under C$10k8 grants · C$27k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OTTAWA FOOD BANK | C$55,923 |
| OTTAWA VALLEY WILD BIRD CARE CENTRE | C$7,500 |
| FREEDOM DOG RESCUE | C$5,000 |
| MINIPINERIE INC | C$3,200 |
| RIDEAU VALLEY WILDLIFE SANCTUARY | C$2,550 |
| VALLEY ANIMAL RESCUE | C$2,500 |
| HOLLY'S HEAVEN WILDLIFE RESCUE | C$2,500 |
| SIT WITH ME RESCUE | C$1,900 |
| OTTAWA DOG RESCUE | C$1,800 |
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.
Dog rescue and recovery
Animal rehabilitation
Dog rescue and adoption cat rescue and adoption
Care of animals
Rescue rehabilitation and adoption and fostering of unwanted and abandoned domesticated rats. The Ottawa Pet Rat Rescue uses a network of volunteers and fosters to provide care and temporary homes for unwanted rats until a suitable adopter…
Pet rescue and adoptions Animals are all checked by veterinarians and are then fostered homes until permanent homes are found for them.
Animal rescue
Care shelter and adoption of abandoned and surrendered family pets. Community programs: Trap Neuter Release(TNR); Prevent Another Litter (PAL); Spay Neuter Assistance Program (SNAP) Fostering
Ontario Reptile Rescue is an animal rescue servicing Ontario. We rescue rehabilitate and re-home reptiles amphibians and other similar exotic pets. We also provide educational information for the public and promote the proper care and…
Provides adoptions and veterinary care for pets
Salt resuce organization assists with reducing pet overpopulation by a spay/neuter program. we rescue dogs & cats from different situations. we medically treat all of them. we adopt to permanent homes.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Freedom Dog Rescue 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.
9 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
Open a dossier: Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · My Tribute Gift Foundation · 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.