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Chelsea, QC · Private foundation

The Leacross Foundation/La Fondation Leacross

The charity receives and maintains a fund from time to time.

C$2.2M
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
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Regions reached
C$200k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k6 grants · C$10k
  • C$10k–50k15 grants · C$314k
  • C$50k–250k18 grants · C$1.9M
C$35,000
Median grant
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Regions reached
C$49M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITYC$200,000
CARLETON UNIVERSITYC$190,400
BGC OTTAWAC$150,000
ENGINEERS OF TOMORROWC$150,000
CHEO FOUNDATIONC$140,000
TORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITYC$100,000
FOUNDATION QUEBEC PHILANTHOPEC$100,000
WOMEN BUILDING FUTURESC$100,000
HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER OTTAWAC$100,000
MASC ORGANIZATIONC$100,000
INFORMED OPINIONSC$100,000
OTTAWA FOOD BANKC$100,000
CANADIAN MUSUEM OF NATUREC$80,000
PARTNERS FOR YOUTH INC.C$70,000
THE APPLE SCHOOLS FOUNDATIONC$60,000
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$12M · 60 repeat orgsC$1.2M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +39% since the first grant, against +25% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 26 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
28

Total granted

C$12M
C$1.1M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
+25%

Still filing today

87%
57%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$140k 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

  • MS
    Médecins sans Frontières
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$850k · revenue +47%
  • WB
    WOMEN BUILDING FUTURES
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$802k · revenue +81%
  • IO
    Informed Opinions
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$620k · revenue +145% · 28% of their budget

Funded once

  • A1
    ACRE - 100 ACRE WOOE TRUST
    one grant, 2021 · C$200k · revenue -11%
  • QV
    QUEBEC VETERANS FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2022 · C$100k · revenue 0%
  • HG
    HFH GREATER OTTAWA
    one grant, 2020 · C$100k

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
Canadian Institute for Women in Engineering and Science Institut Canadien pour les femmes en ingenierie et sciences

Operates as an international education and research institute specifically focused on advancing education in the science technology engineering and mathematics fields.

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2
The Canadian Foundation for Women's Health

To distribute funding to organizations and universities for research in the field of women's sexual reproductive health.

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3
Canadian Research Institute for the Advancement of Women

Production of fact sheets educational tools and training; conducting research projects

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4
Université de l'Ontario français

Les activités étaient centrées sur les programmes existants de l'université: • Baccalauréat en études des cultures numériques • Baccalauréat de l'économie et l'innovation sociale • Baccalauréat en études des environnements urbains •…

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5
L'Institut international de Montréal pour l'environnement / the Montreal international institute for the environment
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6
Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/ Institut De Recherche De L'hopital D'ottawa

The ottawa hospital research institute is an independent health research facility closely affiliated with the ottawa hospital and the university of ottawa committed to excellence in the creation of scientific knowledge that contributes to…

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7
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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8
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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9
Institut canadien d'administration de la justice/ Canadian institute for the administration or justice

L'organisme développe des programmes de recherches et de formation relativement à tous les aspects de l'administration de la justice ce qui inclut l'organisation et l'administration de séminaires symposiums la préparation de rapports écrit…

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10
La fondation Pierre Elliott Trudeau /the Pierre Elliott Trudeau Foundation

The foundation encourages research reflection and action in areas important to canadians. the foundation works through four programs: doctoral scholarships fellowships mentorships and public engagement events and conferences.

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11
Fondation Hec Montréal

Financement de plusieurs projets de recherche reliés à la gestion de hec montréal et contributions à des programmes de bourses à hec montréal

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12
Ottawa Coalition to End Violence Against Women

We focus on efforts in three key areas: 1. prevention-engaging with individuals and public institutions across the community to share the best practices for preventing gender-based violence and supporting community-wide prevention efforts;…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes and the most unlike its peers is Maison Libere-Elles. 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

69 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. 69 of the 89 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
69/69
Grantees still filing
54/69
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 budgetMédecins sans Frontières — C$850,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetWOMEN BUILDING FUTURES — C$802,142 over 8y, 2.4% of budgetStudents on Ice — C$753,894 over 8y, 6.1% of budgetInformed Opinions — C$620,000 over 8y, 28% of budgetBGC OTTAWA — C$610,000 over 7y, 1.6% of budgetMASC ORGANIZATION — C$554,500 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetPARTNERS FOR YOUTH INC — C$474,611 over 8y, 8.6% of budgetOttawa Food Bank — C$460,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetENGINEERS OF TOMORROW — C$450,000 over 3y, 64% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER OTTAWA — C$382,627 over 4y, 3.2% of budgetCanadian Women's Foundation — C$300,000 over 5y, 1.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$300,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetRYERSON UNIVERSITY — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSTEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION — C$280,000 over 6y, 0.5% of budgetNational Arts Centre Foundation — C$263,650 over 7y, 0.7% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$245,400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetISISTERS TECHNOLOGY MENTORING INC. — C$240,000 over 8y, 29% of budgetANTIGONISH WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE — C$226,000 over 6y, 3.9% of budgetFoundation Quebec Philanthope — C$200,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetACRE - 100 ACRE WOOE TRUST — C$200,000 over 1y, 21% of budgetUniversity of Ottawa-NSERC — C$195,800 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetOttawa Riverkeeper — C$180,000 over 7y, 3.9% of budgetCPAWS — C$175,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetCHILD HAVEN INTERNATIONAL — C$160,000 over 8y, 1.2% of budgetCHEO FOUNDATION — C$140,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARKINSON CANADA — C$126,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetThe APPLE Schools Foundation — C$121,985 over 2y, 6.4% of budgetNature Conservancy of Canada — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetQUEBEC VETERANS FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetRotman Endowment Fund — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWomen's CED Network — C$90,000 over 2y, 69% of budgetHospice Care Ottawa — C$90,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetRight to Play — C$80,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetStephen Lewis Foundation — C$80,000 over 2y, 1.5% of budgetMatch International — C$80,000 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetMIRA FOUNDATING INC. — C$80,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetDALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY — C$62,400 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetOption Femmes — C$60,000 over 2y, 3.7% of budgetOrKidstra — C$60,000 over 2y, 3.4% of budgetTELLING TALES — C$60,000 over 2y, 7.1% of budgetALGONQUIN COLLEGE- — C$60,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetUniversity of Ontario Institute of Technology — C$60,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBois Urbain — C$55,000 over 3y, 2.3% of budgetCHELSEA LIBRARY — C$50,417 over 4y, 2.1% of budgetOTTAWA JAZZ FESTIVAL — C$50,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetKiwanis Music Festival — C$40,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetBRITANNIA WOODS COMMUNITY HOUSE — C$30,000 over 1y, 2.7% of budgetCanadian Children's Book Centtre — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.6% 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.

  • Who funds Médecins sans Frontières ↗
  • Who funds WOMEN BUILDING FUTURES ↗
  • Who funds Students on Ice ↗
  • Who funds Informed Opinions ↗
  • Who funds BGC OTTAWA ↗
  • Who funds MASC ORGANIZATION ↗
  • Who funds PARTNERS FOR YOUTH INC ↗
  • Who funds Ottawa Food Bank ↗
  • Who funds ENGINEERS OF TOMORROW ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY GREATER OTTAWA ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Women's Foundation ↗
  • Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds RYERSON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds STEPHEN LEWIS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds National Arts Centre Foundation ↗
  • Who funds CARLETON UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ISISTERS TECHNOLOGY MENTORING INC. ↗
  • Who funds ANTIGONISH WOMEN'S RESOURCE CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds Foundation Quebec Philanthope ↗
  • Who funds ACRE - 100 ACRE WOOE TRUST ↗
  • Who funds University of Ottawa-NSERC ↗
  • Who funds Ottawa Riverkeeper ↗
  • Who funds CPAWS ↗
  • Who funds CHILD HAVEN INTERNATIONAL ↗
  • Who funds CHEO FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PARKINSON CANADA ↗
  • Who funds The APPLE Schools Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Nature Conservancy of Canada ↗
  • Who funds QUEBEC VETERANS FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Rotman Endowment Fund ↗
  • Who funds Women's CED Network ↗
  • Who funds Hospice Care Ottawa ↗
  • Who funds Right to Play ↗
  • Who funds Stephen Lewis Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Match International ↗

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…The Incorporated Syno…Wesley M Nicol Founda…Crabtree Foundation F…Kids Up Front Foundat…Happy Roots FoundationWcpd FoundationTaggart Parkes Founda…Danbe Foundation Inc.Unifor Social Justice…The Minto Greenberg L…The Matt Foundation
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON17.9× affinity27 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 · The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa · Wesley M Nicol Foundation · Crabtree Foundation Fondation Crabtree · Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa) · Happy Roots Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Taggart Parkes Foundation · Danbe Foundation Inc. · Unifor Social Justice Fund / le Fonds de Justice Sociale D'Unifor · The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation · The Matt 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 89 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 897803649:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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