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Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization

Southminster United Church

Weekly worship services; weekly music concerts; ongoing ministries for adults youth children; pastoral care; donate funds to denominational headquarters for mission and service; collect and donate funds for local food bank and other local charities; provide support for homeless and needy individuals; provide weekly free meals…

C$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
4
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$15k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 4 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k3 grants · C$984
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$15k
C$860
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$8.7M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
UNITED CHURCH OF CANADAC$15,204
CENTRETOWN CHURCHES SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEEC$860
MULTIFAITH HOUSINGC$100
CENTRE 507C$24
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.

61%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$177k · 6 repeat orgsC$113k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +61% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

6
10

Total granted

C$177k
C$113k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+61%
+41%

Still filing today

83%
80%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • UC
    UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$168k · revenue +22%
  • CC
    CENTRETOWN CHURCHES SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$6k · revenue +64%
  • MH
    MULTIFAITH HOUSING INITIATIVE
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$946 · revenue +44%

Funded once

  • RW
    RYAN'S WELL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2020 · C$29k · revenue +8%
  • IP
    INTER PARESgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$29k · revenue +73%
  • UC
    UNITED CHURCH OF CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$16k

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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Options Housing Incorporated

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…

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2
Cooperation Canada - Coopération Canada

Cooperation Canada is Canada's national association of international development and humanitarian organizations. Cooperation Canada brings together and advocates for effective Canadian international development assistance by convening…

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3
Canadian Centre for Housing Rights Centre Canadien du Droit au logement

Canadian Centre for Housing Rights (CCHR) previously known as Centre for Equality Rights in Accommodation in Ontario (CERA) is one of Canada’s oldest not-for-profit charities working to advance the right to adequate housing. Founded in…

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4
Cuso International

Cuso International is a Canadian not-for-profit international cooperation and development organization that works to create economic and social opportunities for marginalized groups in Africa Latin America the Caribbean and Canada.…

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5
Right to Food

Community Food Centres Canada (CFCC) builds and supports vibrant food-focused organizations in low-income communities across the country that bring people together to grow cook share and advocate for policies that improve the health and…

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6
Upstream Ottawa Mental Health Community Support

Provide a choice of permanent affordable housing and or ongoing flexible support to individuals with long-term mental health illness. to assist the individuals to live at their optimal level of functioning within the community.

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7
Habitat for Humanity Canada/Habitat Pour L'humanitÉ Canada

Habitat for Humanity Canada' brings communities together to help families build strength stability and independence through affordable homeownership. In fulfilling this mission we provide resources training and ongoing support to help…

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8
Cornerstone Housing for Women / Le pilier logements pour femmes

Cornerstone provides shelter to 165 women and supportive housing to 148 women across our five housing communities in Ottawa. To provide emergency shelter affordable housing and support services to women at risk of homelessness; to promote…

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9
Second Harvest Canada Deuxième Récolte Canada

Second harvest is canada's largest food rescue organization and a global thought leader on perishable food recovery. operating at the intersection of hunger relief and environmental protection second harvest rescues perishable…

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10
Nature Canada / Canada Nature

Nature Canada's mission is to protect and conserve wildlife habitats in Canada by engaging people and advocating on behalf of nature. The organization conducts conservation work which involves supporting community-based efforts to protect…

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11
The Food Bank of Waterloo Region

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…

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12
Housing Help Corporation Aide Logement Ottawa-Carleton

The organization is dedicated to working with homeless and low income people and carries out programs and projects with a goal of ensuring more secure affordable housing for them in the ottawa region. it also provides services to assist…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Centretown Churches Social Action Committee (Ccsac) 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.

02the grantee network

13 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. 13 of the 16 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)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
12/13
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 budgetUNITED CHURCH OF CANADA — C$168,055 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetRYAN'S WELL FOUNDATION — C$28,950 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetINTER PARES — C$28,950 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$9,650 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOTTAWA SALUS — C$9,650 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetFRIENDS OF THE OTTAWA PUBLIC LIBRARY ASSOCIATION — C$9,650 over 1y, 5.0% of budgetOTTAWA RIVERKEEPER INC. — C$9,650 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetCENTRETOWN CHURCHES SOCIAL ACTION COMMITTEE — C$6,107 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetMULTIFAITH HOUSING INITIATIVE — C$946 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCHRISTMAS HAMPER PROJECT — C$560 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetCOMMUNITY LAUNDRY COOPERATIVE INC. — C$250 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDAYBREAK NON-PROFIT SHELTER — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCENTRE 507 ASSOCIATION OF OTTAWA — C$69 over 3y, 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…St Peter's Evangelica…St Peter and St Paul'…St Giles Presbyterian…Dominion-Chalmers Uni…St Andrew's Presbyter…Fourth Avenue Baptist…The Minto Greenberg L…The Roman Catholic Ep…The Incorporated Syno…BenefAction FoundationWcpd Foundation
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON12.4× affinity10 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 · St Peter's Evangelical Lutheran Church · St Peter and St Paul's Anglican Church Ottawa · St Giles Presbyterian Church · Dominion-Chalmers United Church · St Andrew's Presbyterian Church · Fourth Avenue Baptist Church · The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Ottawa-Cornwall · The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa · BenefAction Foundation · Wcpd 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 16 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 119157923:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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