Ottawa, ON · Private foundation
The Jean-Louis and Colette Bellemare Family Foundation
The purpose of the foundation is to provide support to various charitable organizations
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- C$10k–50k4 grants · C$90k
- C$50k–250k1 grant · C$210k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| FONDATION DE L'HOPITAL MONTFORT | C$210,000 |
| OTTAWA HUMANE SOCIETY | C$30,000 |
| REFUGE RR POUR CHEVAUX | C$25,000 |
| CAPITAL PROSPERITY FOUNDATION | C$25,000 |
| THE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF CORNWALL | C$10,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 89% of grant dollars (C$1.2M). The 11% that went abroad (C$140k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 11% of all-years giving (C$140k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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 +22% since the first grant, against +10% for the ones you funded once.
4 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 0 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, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k 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
- FDFONDATION DE L'HOPITAL MONTFORT4× · 2021–2024 · C$840k · revenue +22%
- OHOTTAWA HUMANE SOCIETY6× · 2019–2024 · C$155k · revenue +54%
- TCTHE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF CORNWALL5× · 2019–2024 · C$120k
Funded once
- MBMAISON BALDWIN HOUSEgraduatedone grant, 2020 · C$67k · revenue +79%
- TCTHE CORPORATION OF THE CITY OF CORWALLone grant, 2020 · C$20k
- OFOTTAWA FOOD BANKone grant, 2020 · C$10k · revenue +10%
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.
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Promouvoir la paratique et le développemet de la thérapie pédiatrique assistée par les chevaux. soutiens aux familles (frais de thérapie pour les enfants).
Provide support for sick children through raising funds for sick kids foundation and other health care foundations
Children's health foundation raises and grants funds to support specialized healthcare research and rehabilitation services and programs for infants children and youth
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Ottawa Food Bank/La Banque D'alimentation D'ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Maison Baldwin House. 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. 9 of the 11 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.
- Who funds FONDATION DE L'HOPITAL MONTFORT ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA HUMANE SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds MAISON BALDWIN HOUSE ↗
- Who funds CAPITAL PROSPERITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds REFUGE RR POUR CHEVAUX ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA FOOD BANK ↗
- Who funds CANDLELIGHTERS CHILDHOOD CANCER SUPPORT PROGRAMS ↗
- Who funds CANADIAN CANCER SOCIETY ↗
- Who funds SHEPHERDS OF GOOD HOPE 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.
Open a dossier: Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · BenefAction Foundation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · 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.