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Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization

The Ottawa Food Bank/La Banque D'Alimentation D'Ottawa

During this fiscal period the ottawa food bank (ofb) has actively pursued its mission to combat food insecurity through a range of charitable programs.

C$325k
Granted FY2022
31
Grants FY2022
1
Regions reached
C$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 31 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under C$10k18 grants · C$75k
  • C$10k–50k13 grants · C$249k
C$5,420
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$27M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
GLOUCESTER EMERGENCY FOOD CUPBOARDC$34,800
BANFF AVENUE COMMUNITY HOUSEC$32,200
BRITANNIA WOODS COMMUNITY HOUSEC$28,611
LOWERTOWN COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTREC$21,700
CARE CENTRE OTTAWAC$18,359
DALHOUSIE FOOD ACTIONC$17,600
CONFEDERATION COURT COMMUNITY CENTREC$15,310
RIDEAU ROCKCLIFFE COMMUNITY SERVICESC$14,600
PARKDALE FOOD CENTREC$14,600
PINECREST QUEENSWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTREC$14,520
COMMUNITY COMPASSION CENTRE FOOD BANKC$13,560
BLAIR COURT COMMUNITY HOUSEC$13,000
CALDWELL FAMILY CENTREC$10,600
ORLEANS CUMBERLAND FOOD BANKC$8,500
ST. JOE'S WOMEN'S CENTREC$8,228
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.

91%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.4M · 28 repeat orgsC$238k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +31% since the first grant, against +9% for the ones you funded once.

28 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2022, 2 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

28
18

Total granted

C$2.4M
C$215k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+31%
+9%

Still filing today

96%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 93% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$23k went to new ones.

50%100%’19’20’21’22
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

  • RR
    RIDEAU ROCKCLIFFE COMMUNITY SERVICES
    5× · 2019–2023 · C$224k · revenue +33%
  • PQ
    PINECREST QUEENSWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE
    3× · 2021–2023 · C$196k · revenue +12%
  • GE
    GLOUCESTER EMERGENCY FOOD CUPBOARD
    4× · 2020–2023 · C$140k · revenue +157%

Funded once

  • CC
    CONFEDERATION COURT COMMUNITY CENTRE
    one grant, 2021 · C$57k
  • WR
    WESTBORO REGION FOODBANK
    2× · 2020–2023 · C$50k · revenue -76%
  • CF
    CRCOC FOOD BANK-ORLEANS CUMBERLAND FOOD BANK
    one grant, 2021 · C$24k

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
Centre 507 Association of Ottawa

Centre 507 is an adult drop-in centre (available during the daytime overnight and weekends) which collaborates with partners to provide healthy meals a welcoming community and access to resources.

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2
Kanata Food Cupboard

To provide food and other essentials to families in need in the kanata area

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3
Morrison Gardens Emergency Food Outlet

Distribution of donated food for families and individuals in need living in the catchment area designated by the main ottawa food bank. purchase of additional food items needed by clients.

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4
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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5
The Ottawa Food Bank/La Banque D'alimentation D'ottawa

During this fiscal period the ottawa food bank (ofb) has actively pursued its mission to combat food insecurity through a range of charitable programs. the organization operates as a non-profit providing both fresh and non-perishable food…

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6
Harvest House Community Outreach Centre Windsor

Provide overnight accommodation for homeless. drop-in center providing meals for those in need and for shut-ins. food bank outlet

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7
West Carleton Food Access Centre

We operate as the community food bank delivering nourishing and healthy food to the best of our ability. We work hand in hand with our community to support it in times of need. We also operate an annual Christmas Basket / Angel Tree…

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8
Lakeshore Community Outreach Centre Inc.

We provide a safe and welcoming place for people to come to for help. We offer immediate assistance with food and a nourishing meal and provide information on the available community services to help support the challenges that often come…

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9
Immigrant Women Services Ottawa

Crisis intrvention service 6. 24-hour language interpretation & translation services 2. long & short term counselling 7. employment services: a)job search workshop b) computer training & c) english conversation 3. support group 8. language…

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10
South-East Ottawa Community Services

Primary health care counselling seniors' community home support seniors and youth programs and services housing loss prevention & outreach web and internet access community services and resource development midwifery community development…

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11
Neighbour to Neighbour Centre (Hamilton)

Neighbour to neighbour centre (hamilton) runs a number of programs with the purpose to alleviate and prevent poverty by supporting neighbours at risk: [i] - the hamilton community food centre (hcfc) is a welcoming and safe community space…

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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Eastern Ottawa Resource Centre/Centre De Ressources De L'est D'ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Kehillat Beth Israel Congregation. 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

49 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
12
Early backer (in before they grew)
49/49
Grantees still filing
36/49
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 budgetRIDEAU ROCKCLIFFE COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$224,383 over 5y, 6.0% of budgetPINECREST QUEENSWAY COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$195,520 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetLOWERTOWN COMMUNITY RESOURCE CENTRE — C$146,200 over 5y, 3.5% of budgetGLOUCESTER EMERGENCY FOOD CUPBOARD — C$139,800 over 4y, 11% of budgetCARE CENTRE OTTAWA — C$138,859 over 4y, 22% of budgetBRITANNIA WOODS COMMUNITY HOUSE — C$138,531 over 4y, 5.2% of budgetBANFF AVENUE COMMUNITY HOUSE — C$135,920 over 5y, 14% of budgetPARKDALE FOOD CENTRE — C$131,900 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetDALHOUSIE FOOD ACTION — C$125,100 over 4y, 29% of budgetDEBRA DYNES FAMILY HOUSE — C$116,500 over 4y, 15% of budgetCOMMUNITY COMPASSION CENTRE FOOD BANK — C$114,960 over 2y, 4.7% of budgetCALDWELL FAMILY CENTRE — C$109,600 over 5y, 6.7% of budgetPARTAGE VANIER — C$86,000 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetSALVATION ARMY OTTAWA BOOTH CENTRE — C$83,208 over 4y, 3.6% of budgetCENTRETOWN EMERGECNY FOOD CENTRE — C$76,955 over 4y, 13% of budgetBLAIR COURT COMMUNITY HOUSE — C$71,000 over 4y, 33% of budgetPAVILION FOOD BANK — C$64,000 over 2y, 53% of budgetLIFE CENTRE FOOD BANK — C$61,500 over 5y, 56% of budgetCONFEDERATION COURT COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$60,415 over 4y, 10% of budgetHERON EMERGENCY FOOD CENTRE — C$60,000 over 4y, 24% of budgetCRCOC FOOD BANK — C$58,500 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetWESTBORO REGION FOODBANK — C$50,000 over 2y, 19% of budgetST. JOE'S WOMEN'S CENTRE — C$17,471 over 3y, 2.2% of budgetCASSELMAN FOOD BANK — C$15,000 over 4y, 6.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY COMPASSION CENTRE FOOD BANK — C$13,560 over 2y, 12% of budgetSTITTSVILLE FOOD BANK — C$13,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetOPERATION COME HOME — C$9,760 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetFAMSAC — C$8,000 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetBARRHAVEN FOOD CUPBOARD — C$8,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA — C$5,600 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetBRUCE HOUSE — C$5,600 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetBethel Care Centre — C$5,300 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetODAWA NATIVE FRIENDSHIP CENTRE — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetKHILLAT BETH ISRAEL — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetST. MARY'S HOME — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE DOOR YOUTH CENTRE — C$5,000 over 2y, 2.5% of budgetALL NATIONS INTERNATIONAL DEVELOPMENT AGENCY (ANIDA) — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCARLINGTON COMMUNITY HEALTH CENTRE — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCENTRE ESPOIR SOPHIE — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetCAPITAL CITY MISSION — C$5,000 over 2y, 1.8% of budgetJERICHO ROAD MINISTRIES — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHARMONY HOUSE WOMEN'S SHELTER — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetTUNGASUVVINGAT INUIT — C$4,910 over 2y, 0.0% 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…The Incorporated Syno…Food Banks Canada/Ban…Kids Up Front Foundat…The Roman Catholic Ep…The Eastern Ontario &…Ottawa-Carleton Distr…Mazon CanadaOseg Foundation/Fonda…Barristers for a Bett…Kiwanis Club of Ottaw…Taggart Parkes Founda…
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON25.2× affinity35 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 · Food Banks Canada/Banques Alimentaires Canada · Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa) · The Roman Catholic Episcopal Corporation of Ottawa-Cornwall · The Eastern Ontario & Western Quebec Christmas Cheer Foundat · Ottawa-Carleton District School Board · Mazon Canada · Oseg Foundation/Fondation Oseg · Barristers for a Better Bytown · Kiwanis Club of Ottawa Foundation · Taggart Parkes 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 49 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 2022-09-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 108082363:2022-09-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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