Ottawa, ON · Charitable organization
The Ottawa Muslim Association
Fund raising to support and maintain mosque muslim and non-muslim organizations conducting religious services and prayer on daily basis.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2023
- Under C$10k5 grants · C$23k
- C$10k–50k4 grants · C$107k
- C$50k–250k2 grants · C$187k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$596k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OTTAWA MUSLIM ASSOCIATION TRUST AWQUAF | C$596,449 |
| HUMAN CONCERN INTERNATIONAL | C$101,000 |
| ISLAMIC RELIEF CANADA | C$86,000 |
| IDRF | C$46,000 |
| PENNY APPEAL CANADA | C$41,000 |
| OUTAOUAIS ISLAMIC CENTRE | C$10,000 |
| OTTAWA ISLAMIC SCHOOL | C$10,000 |
| ENTRAIDE CANADA OF ORPHANS | C$7,000 |
| SAKEENAH HOMES | C$5,000 |
| ECECOLE IBN BATOUT | C$5,000 |
| CBET | C$4,000 |
| SOMALI HOPE FOUNDATION | C$2,000 |
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 +100% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
14 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2023, 7 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (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 FY2023, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$37k 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
- HCHUMAN CONCERN INTERNATIONAL3× · 2020–2023 · C$112k · revenue +379%
- IRISLAMIC RELIEF CANADA2× · 2020–2023 · C$100k · revenue +100%
- IIDRF2× · 2021–2023 · C$57k · revenue +181%
Funded once
- IRIslamic Relief Canadaone grant, 2021 · C$57k · revenue +11%
- IRIslamic Relief Canadaone grant, 2022 · C$34k
- PAPenny Appeal Canadaone grant, 2022 · C$30k
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.
Delivery of projects outside of Canada is through an affiliated Muslim Hands Organization. Together with local partners and country offices Muslim Hands is working in the world's poorest countries to tackle the root causes of poverty and…
Food Packages - Provide food packages to poor families for the month of Ramadan and at the end of the month as well (Zakat) - Udhiya (Qurbani) - For those who would like to perform their Qurbani in Sudan during the Hajj season - Crisis in…
Aga Khan Foundation Canada (AKFC) is a non-profit international development agency. Incorporated on July 3 1980 AKFC’s work covers two core lines of activity: programming related to international development and the acquisition and…
Exploring poverty relief projects in countries of priority. Continue to find partners to further our areas of deliveries and mission (Emergency relief food aid Orphan relief etc.)
Halal Foods and essential item banks (Scarborough Mississauga Whitby Inuvik& Iqaluit) Shelters for Women and Children Meals on Wheels Free Medical Clinic Place of Worship Welcome Kit for Refugees Backpack program Water well exploration…
Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…
1. Afghanistan: We identified and treated acute malnutrition in children under five in Kandahar Province. 2. Lebanon: We provided clean drinking water to Syrian Refugees living in the informal settlements in the Bekaa valley. 3. Emergency…
The Global Centre for Pluralism is an independent charitable organization founded by His late Highness the Aga Khan IV and the Government of Canada. The Centre works with policy leaders educators and community builders around the world to…
Cooperation Canada is Canada's national association of international development and humanitarian organizations. Cooperation Canada brings together and advocates for effective Canadian international development assistance by convening…
Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Islamic Circle of North America and the most unlike its peers is University of Ottawa / UniversitÉ D'ottawa. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
16 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. 16 of the 65 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 THE OTTAWA MUSLIM ASSOCIATION TRUST AWQUAF ↗
- Who funds HUMAN CONCERN INTERNATIONAL ↗
- Who funds ISLAMIC RELIEF CANADA ↗
- Who funds Islamic Relief Canada ↗
- Who funds IDRF ↗
- Who funds PENNY APPEAL CANADA ↗
- Who funds OTTAWA ISLAMIC SCHOOL ↗
- Who funds OUTAOUAIS ISLAMIC CENTRE ↗
- Who funds ENTRAIDE CANADA OF ORPHANS ↗
- Who funds University of Ottawa ↗
- Who funds CBET ↗
- Who funds Parkdale Food Bank ↗
- Who funds ECECOLE IBN BATOUT ↗
- Who funds SAKEENAH HOMES ↗
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: Islamic Society of Cumberland · South Nepean Muslim Community (Snmc) · Assunnah Muslims Association · Human Concern International (Hci) · Islamic Relief - Ir Canada · Kanata Muslim Association · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne
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.