Oakville, ON · Private foundation
The Bessada Family Foundation
To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to qualified donees and charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act (canada)
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k2 grants · C$8k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$56k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| ST. PETER & ST. PAUL COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF OAKVILLE | C$55,500 |
| SAINT MAXIMOS AND SAINT DOMADIOS COPTIC ORTHODOEX CHURCH | C$5,000 |
| IAN ANDERSON HOUSE FOUNDATION | C$3,000 |
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 +33% since the first grant, against -1% for the ones you funded once.
3 repeat relationships — 1 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 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, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$8k 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
- SSST.PETER & ST. PAUL COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF OAKVILLE7× · 2017–2024 · C$262k · revenue +69%
- ACAPPLEBY COLLEGE4× · 2017–2021 · C$55k · revenue +33%
- COCOPTIC ORTHODOX PATRIARCHATE DIOCESE OF MISSISSAUGA VANCOUV2× · 2018–2019 · C$31k · revenue -4%
Funded once
- SMSAINT MARK AND SAINT DEMIANA COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCHone grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue -1%
- MCMULLY CHILDREN'S FAMILY CANADAone grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +16%
- HAHeart and Stroke Foundationone grant, 2018 · C$500 · revenue -4%
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.
Administering the life od the coptic orthodox church in toronto its suburbs and northern ontario according to the faith and tradition of the coptis orthodox church. the archdiocese of toronto in under the ecclesiastical jurisdiction of his…
Saint mark & saint philopateer coptic orthodox church ( the church) was organized under the societies act of british columbia and it is governed by the coptic orthodox patriarchate diocese of mississauga vancouver and western canada. the…
The church administers liturgy according to the coptic orthodox tradition and provides education to the community
Administering the Liturgy and Sacraments according to the Coptic Orthodox Church Christian education Sunday School Bible Study and evangelism.
In obedience with the teachings of the Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ His apostle saint Mark and the Holy Coptic Orthodox Patriarchate of Alexandria:- (a) to preach promote and advance the teachings of the Coptic Orthodox faith. and the…
Providing Religious Services In The Coptic Orthodox Faith Community.
The church is a religious organization the primary purpose of which is to provide a place of worship for its congregation. the church provides other services for its members including religious retreats and trips to promote its history and…
A] promote a christian way of life according to the faith and doctrines of the coptic orthodox church through: (1)administering the liturgy and the sacraments (2)the pastoral work of the clergy (3)christian education publication and sunday…
Providing church services
To maintain the Orthodox Christian faith as handed down by the apostles in Canada by providing the proper canonical order. The Bishop ordains the priests so that they may conduct worship services in various parishes. The charity ensures…
Providing religious services for the members of teh coptic orthodox christian faith
Advances religion by promoting the spiritual teaching and maintaining coptic orthodox faith
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Coptic Orthodox Diocese of Mississauga Vancouver & Western Canada and the most unlike its peers is Ian Anderson House Foundation. 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.
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 ST.PETER & ST. PAUL COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH OF OAKVILLE ↗
- Who funds APPLEBY COLLEGE ↗
- Who funds COPTIC ORTHODOX PATRIARCHATE DIOCESE OF MISSISSAUGA VANCOUV ↗
- Who funds SAINT MARK AND SAINT DEMIANA COPTIC ORTHODOX CHURCH ↗
- Who funds SAINT MAXIMOS AND SAINT DOMADIOS COPTIC ORTHODOEX CHURCH ↗
- Who funds IAN ANDERSON HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MULLY CHILDREN'S FAMILY CANADA ↗
- Who funds Heart and Stroke Foundation ↗
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.
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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.