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Goderich, ON · Private foundation

The Ottewell Family Charitable Foundation

The foundation oversees donations to various registered charities

C$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$145k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ESCARPMENT BIOSPHERE CONSERVANCYC$2,000
SCOTT MISSIONC$1,000
NORTHENR LIGHTS WILDLIFE SHELTERC$1,000
COPE SERVICE DOGSC$1,000
SALTHAVENC$1,000
HURON WOMENS SHELTERC$500
TRUE NORTH AIDC$500
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.

57%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$12k · 10 repeat orgsC$9k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +20% since the first grant, against +7% for the ones you funded once.

10 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 4 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

10
12

Total granted

C$12k
C$5k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+20%
+7%

Still filing today

100%
92%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 36% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TS
    The Scott Mission
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$3k · revenue +52%
  • SW
    Salthaven Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Centre Inc.
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$3k · revenue +80%
  • TN
    TRUE NORTH AID
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$800 · revenue +61%

Funded once

  • NL
    Northern Lights Wildlife Society
    one grant, 2023 · C$1k · revenue +7%
  • CR
    CANADIAN RED CROSS
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue -47%
  • WH
    WESTMINSTER HOUSE SOCIETY
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue -21%

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
Toronto Wildlife Centre

As the busiest wildlife centre in the country every day communities rely on Toronto Wildlife Centre (TWC) for help. Staffed and equipped specially for wildlife medicine TWC's wildlife emergency hospital is the only one of its kind in the…

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2
Wildlife Preservation Trust Canada/

Wildlife preservation canada exists to save animal species at risk from extinction in canada by performing hands-on action for species requiring direct intervention to recover. wpc build canada's conservation capacity by providing…

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3
National Wildlife Centre

NWC is focused on helping sick injured and orphaned native wildlife species through wildlife medical care rehabilitation & training. More than 500 animals were seen for medical treatment over the past year and most were released by…

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4
Wcs Wildlife Conservation Society Canada

Wcs canada provides evidence-based expert guidance and policy recommendations to empower decision-makers to take transformative action for wildlife ecosystems and people. through our own research accumulated expertise and understanding of…

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5
World Animal Protection Canada Protection Mondiale des Animaux Canada

World Animal Protection carries out programs to address the systems that cause cruelty and suffering to animals around the globe. We care for and provide sanctuary for captive wildlife that cannot be returned to the wild. We undertake…

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6
The Rock Wildlife Rescue Inc.

The Rock Wildlife Rescue cares for injured orphaned sick and displaced wildlife. Many of those animals are in distress as a direct result of human activity. As part of our mandate we provide education for habitat protection and…

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7
Kawartha Wildlife Centre

Main program is to rescue rehabilitate and release ontario wildlife that has been injured orphaned or sick while working to educate the public about wildlife and conservation issues. this is completed through the use of a rented facility…

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8
Aspen Valley Wildlife Sanctuary

Permanent residents: aspen valley provides a permanent home to almost 30 animals who have come to us from various situations. many were born or raised in captivity and were later seized by authorities who then approached aspen valley to…

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9
Another Chance Wildlife Rehabilitation

Rehabilitation of injured orphaned ill and displaced wildlife educate the public about living with wildlife

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10
Turtle Pond Wildlife Centre

We rehabiliate injured orphanes or ill wildlife in northeastern ontario. we also provide information on wildlife on wildlife issues and assist in (non-invasive) wildlife research.

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11
Exposed Wildlife Conservancy

The organization promotes ethical humane and science-based solutions for wildlife management challenges facing apex predators such as bears cougars and wolves and the communities that coexist with them

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12
Heaven's Wildlife Rescue Rehabilitation & Education Centre

We rehabilitate orphaned injured and displaced wildlife patients 24 hrs per day / 7 days per week all year round. heaven's wildlife rescue is a volunteer based organization that cares for sick injured orphaned or displaced native ontario…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Salthaven Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Centre Inc. and the most unlike its peers is Saving Grace Animal Society. 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

23 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. 23 of the 26 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
13/23
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 budgetThe Scott Mission — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSalthaven Wildlife Rehabilitation and Education Centre Inc. — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetC.O.P.E. CANINE OPPORTUNITY PEOPLE EMPOWERMENT — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetHomes for Heroes Foundation — C$2,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetESCARPMENT BIOSPHERE CONSERVANCY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetNorthern Lights Wildlife Society — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWESTMINSTER HOUSE SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTRUE NORTH AID — C$800 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHURON WOMENS SHELTER — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE NATURE CONSERVANCY OF CANADA — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChild & Nature Alliance of Canada — C$300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMinwashin Lodge Indigenous Women's Support Centre — C$300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetA Better Tent City Waterloo Region — C$300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Centre to End Human Trafficking — C$300 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEndangered Species Fund of Canada — C$300 over 2y, 3.6% of budgetCHILD WITNESS CENTRE OF WATERLOO REGION — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTrumpeter Swan Conservation Ontario — C$200 over 1y, 3.0% of budgetVeterans Emergency Transition Services Canada — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSPECTRUM Waterloo Region's Rainbow Community Space — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAFRICVILLE HERITAGE TRUST SOCIETY — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetAUTISM DOG SERVICE INC. — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAVING GRAVE ANIMAL SOCIETY — C$100 over 1y, 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.

Canada GivesThe Guelph Community …Charities Aid Foundat…Waterloo Region Commu…United Way East Ontar…Charitable Gift Funds…Bc Government Employe…Abundance CanadaCanadian Women's Foun…United Way Golden Hor…United Way of Calgary…BenefAction Foundation
Canada GivesON8.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Canada Gives · The Guelph Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Bc Government Employees Community Services Fund Trust · Abundance Canada · Canadian Women's Foundation / Fondation Canadienne Des Femmes · United Way Golden Horseshoe · United Way of Calgary and Area · BenefAction 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 26 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 737968404:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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