Ottawa, ON · Private foundation
Red Roof House Foundation
The Red Roof House Foundation's mission is to disrupt the cycle of poverty in our community through innovative outsie the box ideas.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| COUNSELLING FAMILY SERVICES OTTAWA | C$20,000 |
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.
Reintegration of former offenders.
Resource navigation and referral programs: crisis intervention and support short term counselling emergency and baby food cupboard support for new immigrants poverty reduction. programs against violence: crisis support regional help lines…
The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.
Ottawa inner city health inc. was established to provide health care and social support services to people living in ottawa affected by poverty substance use physical and mental illness. services are provided through a range of programs…
To remove economic barriers to successful learning by responding to urgent needs identified by teachers and schools with financial and in-kind support for kids within the ottawa-carleton district school board who are at risk for failing…
Family services ottawa/services à la famille ottawa has been providing crucial services to children adults and their families in ottawa since 1914. services range from prevention programs in schools and community to intensive intervention…
The organization provides a housing facility and related programs for youth. these programs include case management life management housing support and mental health and wellness program.
1. day treatment:individualized and youth-driven day treatment provides youth facing severe mental health and behavioural challenges an opportunity to pursue their education while receiving treatment and support in a specialized classroom…
O-YA provides Grades 2 - 12 youth in the rural south Ottawa with programs and services that include After School Homework Club Teen Drop In Jr. Teen Drop In Teen Skill Development and Social Recreation programming mental health and…
Youthlink provides a range of services from prevention to early intervention to treatment for young people between the ages of 12-24 and their families living in the city of toronto. range of services include: * individual family and group…
Options bytown is a non-profit organization that provides supportive housing in ottawa on combining affordable housing with on-site counselling training and other services for people who need help to live independently. we help people who…
The Ottawa Collaborative Justice Program (CJP) assists those affected by crime to heal. CJP uses a restorative approach to seek solutions that address the harm while preserving the dignity of all participants. The restorative process…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa/Bureau Des Services a La Jeunesse D'ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity National Capital Region. 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.
- Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY - GO ↗
- Who funds BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA ↗
- Who funds YSB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds YOUVILLE CENTRE ↗
- Who funds YSB CHARITABLE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA NETWORK FOR EDUCATION ↗
- Who funds COUNSELLING FAMILY SERVICES OTTAWA ↗
- Who funds THE OTTAWA FOOD BANK ↗
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 · Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa) · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Taggart Parkes Foundation · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Arbor Memorial Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · Aqueduct Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation
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.