Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization
Riverside United Church
As a congregation of The United Church of Canada we carried out programs of worship pastoral care Christian education and outreach.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k10 grants · C$11k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$28k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| United Church of Canada | C$28,235 |
| Brookfield Community Food Cupboard | C$2,500 |
| Brookfield Community Food Cupboard | C$1,000 |
| Brookfield Community Food Cupboard | C$1,000 |
| Brookfield Community Food Cupboard | C$1,000 |
| Brookfield Community Food Cupboard | C$1,000 |
| Brookfield Community Food Cupboard | C$1,000 |
| Brookfield Community Food Cupboard | C$1,000 |
| Brookfield Community Food Cupboard | C$1,000 |
| Heron Emergency Food Centre | C$640 |
| Centre 507 | C$540 |
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +44% since the first grant, against +8% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 76% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$10k went to new ones.
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
- UCUnited Church of Canada8× · 2017–2024 · C$237k · revenue +22%
- MHMultifaith Housing Initiative3× · 2017–2021 · C$5k · revenue +44%
- C5Centre 5075× · 2017–2024 · C$1k · revenue +595%
Funded once
- RCRIVERSIDE CHURCHES OF OTTAWAone grant, 2018 · C$4k · revenue +1%
- RCRiverside Churches of Ottawaone grant, 2019 · C$200
- PFPavilion Food Bankgraduatedone grant, 2017 · C$110 · revenue +396%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Provide overnight accommodation for homeless. drop-in center providing meals for those in need and for shut-ins. food bank outlet
The charity runs a community food bank in the West Centretown (former Dalhousie Ward) section of Ottawa ON for residents who reside within a defined catchment zone. Clients are eligible to access food and groceries once per month.
Distribution of donated food for families and individuals in need living in the catchment area designated by the main ottawa food bank. purchase of additional food items needed by clients.
The association is a membership organization of food bank throughout ontario with a mandate to assist in meeting the immediate food needs of food bank recipients and to work towards long-term solutions to hunger and poverty.
Prepares and gives out food packages to homeless people in toronto
During this fiscal period the ottawa food bank (ofb) has actively pursued its mission to combat food insecurity through a range of charitable programs. the organization operates as a non-profit providing both fresh and non-perishable food…
To provide food and other essentials to families in need in the kanata area
The food bank of waterloo region (the food bank) acquires coordinates and distributes food to the community food assistance network - a system of 100+ community organizations providing food and support to those in need. these organizations…
Regeneration Outreach Community continues to support those experiencing homelessness those who are precariously housed and those living with food insecurity. Through our Meal Program we provide breakfast 365 days a year and lunch Monday to…
The Huron County Food Bank Distribution Centre (HCFBDC)’s purpose is to source and supply food and hygiene products for distribution to the food banks and aid agencies that we serve in Huron and Perth Counties. We also run a monthly Mobile…
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…
We operate a food bank serving residents of Burlington Ontario. During 2024 we employed 10 full-time employees and 6 part time /seasonal employees. Our volunteers worked a total of 13 757 hours. The Halton Food Connect project which…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centre 507 Association of Ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Multifaith Housing Initiative. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
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 9 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.
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 · Rideau Park United Church · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.