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The Matt Foundation

The activities of THE MATT FOUNDATION continue of those of the estates of ...

C$508k
Granted FY2024still arriving
21
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$66k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 21 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k18 grants · C$380k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$123k
C$20,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$6.2M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$66,250
ALGONQUIN COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$56,250
WORLD VISIONC$40,000
WESLEY URBAN MINISTRIESC$40,000
UNITED WAYC$40,000
DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERSC$40,000
THE INCORPORATED SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF OTTAWAC$20,000
ST. JOE'S WOMEN'S CENTREC$20,000
OTTAWA SLAUS CORPORATIONC$20,000
SHEPHERDS OF GOOD HOPEC$20,000
PARKDALE FOOD CENTREC$20,000
OTTAWA MISSIONC$20,000
HELP OUR STUDENTS PROGRAMC$20,000
HARMONY HOUSEC$20,000
CHRISTIE LAKE CAMPC$10,000
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.

84%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.2M · 25 repeat orgsC$213k 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.

25 repeat relationships — 15 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

25
6

Total granted

C$1.2M
C$38k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+39%
-25%

Still filing today

96%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 66% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$175k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • OH
    OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$106k · revenue +94%
  • PF
    PARKDALE FOOD CENTRE
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$98k · revenue +102%
  • O
    ORKIDSTRA
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$75k · revenue +115%

Funded once

  • TO
    THE OTTAWA MISSION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue -87%
  • SJ
    ST. JOE'S WOMEN'S CENTRE
    one grant, 2022 · C$8k
  • CF
    COMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OTTAWAgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue +151%

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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The Ottawa Hospital/L'hopital D'ottawa

The ottawa hospital is a three-campus hospital model with two full service campuses (civic and general). the objective of the hospital is to provide quality patient care through education and research and is dedicated to improving the…

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2
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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3
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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4
University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa

The university of ottawa offers post-secondary education.

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5
Ottawa Integrative Cancer Centre Foundation

The foundation's purpose is to support evidence-informed integrative and preventative cancer care research and education. their approach emphasizes quality of life active prevention of the disease and care of the spirit.

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6
Ocad University Foundation
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7
Ottawa First Responders Foundation

New programs. During this fiscal period the Ottawa First Responders Foundation (OFRF) continued to provide access to mental health services for first responders and their families in the Ottawa region. The Foundation directly funded…

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8
The Ottawa Heart Institute Alumni Inc.

Support the university of ottawa heart foundation

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9
Education Foundation of Ottawa

To remove economic barriers to successful learning by responding to urgent needs identified by teachers and schools with financial and in-kind support for kids within the ottawa-carleton district school board who are at risk for failing…

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10
Ottawa Heart Institute Research Corporation/Corporation De Recherches De L'institut De Cardiologie D'ottawa

Ohirc conducts acquires solicits and accepts research funding to operate and maintain laboratories and a research facility. it's research programs are directed towards developing an increased understanding in cardiovascular disease its…

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11
Childrens Hospital of Eastern Ontario - Ottawa Children's Treatment Centre

CHEO is the national capital region's pediatric health and research centre offering a wide range of services: full-service 24-hour specialized children's hospital school and preschool autism therapy provider child and youth mental health…

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12
Ottawa Regional Cancer Foundation/Fondation Du Cancer De La Region D'ottawa

The ottawa regional cancer foundation is a supportive cancer care champion. we harness the power of our community to deliver life changing results for those affected by cancer. we offer a community cancer hub a single portal for local…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa and the most unlike its peers is St. Brigid's Summer Camp. 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

36 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. 36 of the 37 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/36
Grantees still filing
23/36
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 budgetALGONQUIN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$116,250 over 6y, 0.4% of budgetOTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$106,250 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE INCORPORATED SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF OTTAWA — C$102,500 over 7y, 66% of budgetPARKDALE FOOD CENTRE — C$97,500 over 6y, 1.0% of budgetORKIDSTRA — C$75,000 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetHELP OUR STUDENTS PROGRAM — C$61,000 over 6y, 5.9% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA — C$60,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSHEPHERDS OF GOOD HOPE — C$57,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAUSOME — C$55,500 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetOTTAWA MISSION — C$52,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetWESLEY URBAN MINISTRIES — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWORLD VISION — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. JOE'S WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$40,000 over 3y, 4.2% of budgetUNITED WAY — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$40,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHARMONY HOUSE — C$37,500 over 3y, 1.8% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF OTTAWA — C$35,000 over 4y, 1.0% of budgetTHE GOOD COMPANIONS — C$32,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetBRUYERE FOUNDATION INC. — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetOTTAWA SLAUS CORPORATION — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetST BRIGID'S SUMMER CAMP — C$30,000 over 5y, 17% of budgetCHEO FOUNDATION — C$22,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetROYAL OTTAWA FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH — C$22,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetSOCIAL PLANNING COUNCIL OF OTTAWA — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetYMCA-YWCA OF THE NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION — C$20,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIFAITH HOUSING INITIATIVE — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE — C$13,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OTTAWA MISSION FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIE LAKE CAMP — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOUNDATION OF OTTAWA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRIDEAU-ROCKCLIFFE COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetGLEBE-ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCH REFUGEES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetNATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCATHOLIC CENTRE FOR IMMIGRANTS FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.1% 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…Taggart Parkes Founda…Wcpd FoundationThe Minto Greenberg L…Wesley M Nicol Founda…The Incorporated Syno…Kids Up Front Foundat…The Harry P Ward Foun…Danbe Foundation Inc.Ottawa Dragon Boat Fo…Ashbury College Incor…The Walter and Friedl…
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON21.3× affinity23 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 · Taggart Parkes Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation · Wesley M Nicol Foundation · The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa · Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa) · The Harry P Ward Foundation · Danbe Foundation Inc. · Ottawa Dragon Boat Foundation · Ashbury College Incorporated · The Walter and Friedl Stenger 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 37 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 887990661:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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