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Ottawa, ON · Private foundation

The Harry P Ward Foundation

The mission of THE HARRY P WARD FOUNDATION is to lend support to community-based organizations in the greater ottawa area serving the homeless women and children the elderly people with disabilities and those focusing on animal welfare.

C$69k
Granted FY2024still arriving
26
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 26 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,500
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$1.8M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LOWERTOWN COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTREC$5,000
THE NEPEAN RIDEAU AND OSGOODE COMMUNITY RESOUC$4,800
THE OTTAWA MISSIONC$4,000
OCH FOUNDATIONC$3,000
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF OTTAWAC$3,000
COOPERATIVE AMI JEUNESSEC$2,500
PROPELLER DANCEC$2,500
YMCA OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGIONC$2,500
BRUCE HOUSEC$2,500
OTTAWA CHAMBERFESTC$2,500
HARMER HOUSEC$2,500
BIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OTTAWAC$2,500
THE OTTAWA HUMANE SOCIETYC$2,500
TETRA SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICAC$2,500
ECOEQUITABLE INC.C$2,500
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.

71%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$276k · 36 repeat orgsC$112k to everyone else

36 repeat relationships — 18 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
39

Total granted

C$276k
C$89k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+22%
+33%

Still filing today

97%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$23k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23’24
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

  • PD
    PROPELLER DANCE
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$15k · revenue +39%
  • CL
    CHRISTIE LAKE KIDS
    4× · 2017–2023 · C$15k · revenue +18%
  • OS
    ORKIDSTRA - SISTEMA OTTAWA
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$13k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • HF
    HABITAT FOR HUMANITY
    one grant, 2020 · C$5k · revenue +10%
  • TC
    THE COUNCIL ON AGING OF OTTAWA
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue 0%
  • HC
    HOSPICE CARE OTTAWAgraduated
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +43%

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.

1
Ottawa Independent Living Resource Centre

Provides programs and support in order to enhance the process for empowering individuals with disabilities to direct their own lives and participate fully in the community.

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2
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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3
Ability First Ottawa Inc.

Employment training and preparation housing search for those with disabilities services for those with physical and socially challenging disabilities

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4
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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5
Youth Services Bureau of Ottawa/Bureau Des Services a La Jeunesse D'ottawa

1) *mental health programs-counselling services*: service coordination intensive family support wraparound youth mental health walk-in clinic youth and family counselling bridges program 2) *mental health pgms – crisis services*: step up…

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6
Ottawa Inner City Health Inc.

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…

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7
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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8
Osgoode Youth Association

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…

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9
Collaborative Justice Program:Restorative Justice Ottawa

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…

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10
Ottawa-Carleton Association for Persons With Developmental Disabilities

Ocapdd provides support to hundreds of person with developmental disabilities in every aspect of life whether seeking work opportunities securing living arrangements or dealing with day to day tasks.

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11
Tamir

To provide residential housing and programs to individuals with developmental disabilities so that they may live more full lives in the ottawa community

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12
The Ontario Caregiver Organization

The Ontario Caregiver Organization exists to support Ontario's 4 million unpaid caregivers who provide physical and/or emotional support to a family member partner friend or neighbour in need. We work to amplify and spread existing…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Och Foundation for Healthy Communities/Fondation de Lco Pourdes communautés sainess and the most unlike its peers is Propeller Dance. 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

80 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. 80 of the 83 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)
14
Early backer (in before they grew)
78/80
Grantees still filing
58/80
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetPROPELLER DANCE — C$15,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetCHRISTIE LAKE KIDS — C$14,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetBRUCE HOUSE — C$14,000 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetORKIDSTRA - SISTEMA OTTAWA — C$12,500 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetImmigrant Women Services — C$12,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTHE CARING AND SHARING EXCHANGE — C$12,400 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetCommunity Laundry Co-operative Inc — C$12,000 over 4y, 5.7% of budgetMASC — C$10,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetTETRA SOCIETY OF NORTH AMERICA — C$9,700 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetBIG BROTHERS BIG SISTERS OF OTTAWA — C$9,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetOTTAWA INTERNATIONAL CHILDREN'S FESTIVAL — C$9,150 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetHARVEST HOUSE — C$8,500 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetAlternative Learning Styles and Outlooks (ALSO) — C$8,500 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION — C$8,500 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCARING AND SHARING — C$8,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetNA'AMAT OTTAWA CANADA — C$7,900 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetThe Table Community Food Centre — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOTTAWA STORY TELLERS — C$7,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetTHE GLEBE CENTRE — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetDANDELION DANCE — C$6,940 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetTHE OTTAWA MISSION — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSERENITY RENEWAL FOR FAMILIES — C$6,500 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetSECOND HARVEST — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBurning Passions Theatre — C$6,000 over 3y, 2.6% of budgetLOWERTOWN COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetABLE2 — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE COUNCIL ON AGING OF OTTAWA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetTHE NEPEAN RIDEAU AND OSGOODE COMMUNITY RESOU — C$4,800 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDress for Success Ottawa — C$4,500 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetECOEQUITABLE INC. — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetTHE OTTAWA HUMANE SOCIETY — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThe Excellence in Literacy — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetOttawa Therapy Dogs — C$4,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetTHE DOOR YOUTH CENTRE — C$3,900 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetLEARNING DISABILITIES ASSOCIATION OF OTTAWA-CARLETON — C$3,800 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetThe Outcare Foundation — C$3,600 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetWAUPOOS FOUNDATION — C$3,590 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetOCH FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHOSPICE CARE OTTAWA — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCORNERSTONE HOUSE FOR WOMEN — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYouth Services Bureau of Ottawa Charitable Foundations — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCAMPFIRE CIRCLE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSENIORS' COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetTHE BELL'S CORNER PARISH — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetHOPE AIR — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAUSOME OTTAWA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.5% 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…Crabtree Foundation F…Taggart Parkes Founda…The Minto Greenberg L…Ottawa Dragon Boat Fo…Danbe Foundation Inc.Kiwanis Club of Ottaw…The Incorporated Syno…Kids Up Front Foundat…The George Lunan Foun…Wesley M Nicol Founda…The Bloodroot Fund
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON36× affinity62 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 · Crabtree Foundation Fondation Crabtree · Taggart Parkes Foundation · The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation · Ottawa Dragon Boat Foundation · Danbe Foundation Inc. · Kiwanis Club of Ottawa Foundation · The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa · Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa) · The George Lunan Foundation · Wesley M Nicol Foundation · The Bloodroot Fund

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 83 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 private foundation under foundations.

Source object 892615246:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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