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Greely, ON · Private foundation

The Sahara Foundation

Feeds and clothes homeless and needy children provides specialized medical care for sick children

C$16k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$3k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,510
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$320k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
THE SALVATION ARMYC$2,500
THE OTTAWA FOOD BANKC$2,500
OTTAWA HUMANE SOCIETYC$2,500
CORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMEN FOUNDATIONC$2,500
THE SNOW SUIT FUNDC$1,510
THE OTTAWA MISSIONC$1,000
THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$1,000
CARE CENTRE OTTAWAC$1,000
CANCER RESEARCH SOCIETYC$1,000
CHEO FOUNDATIONC$250
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$100k · 15 repeat orgsC$11k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +91% since the first grant, against +11% for the ones you funded once.

15 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 6 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
6

Total granted

C$100k
C$10k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+91%
+11%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 94% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
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 HUMANE SOCIETY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$16k · revenue +69%
  • TS
    THE SALVATION ARMY
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$16k · revenue ×4,680
  • TO
    THE OTTAWA FOOD BANK
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$16k · revenue +152%

Funded once

  • UO
    UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +254%
  • TO
    THE OTTAWA MISSION FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2018 · C$2k · revenue -87%
  • CH
    CANADA HELPS
    one grant, 2021 · C$1k · revenue +11%

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
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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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
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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4
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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5
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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6
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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7
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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8
The Ottawa Heart Institute Alumni Inc.

Support the university of ottawa heart foundation

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9
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

The Institute's purpose is to solicit receive manage and distribute funds in respect of the advancement of health science research and education and the improvement of patient care in support of legislated and strategic priorities of…

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10
William Osler Health System Foundation

William Osler Health System Foundation (Osler Foundation) provides funding to William Osler Health System (Osler) a leading hospital system serving more than 1.3 million people in Brampton North Etobicoke Caledon and surrounding…

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11
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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12
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De L'universite D'ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc.. 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

22 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
4
Early backer (in before they grew)
22/22
Grantees still filing
17/22
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 budgetOTTAWA HUMANE SOCIETY — C$16,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$15,500 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetTHE OTTAWA FOOD BANK — C$15,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCORNERSTONE HOUSING FOR WOMEN FOUNDATION — C$14,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER RESEARCH SOCIETY — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE SNOW SUIT FUND — C$5,010 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTHE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHEO FOUNDATION — C$4,600 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetMULTIPLE SCLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OTTAWA MISSION — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSHEPHERDS GOOD HOPE FOUNDATION — C$3,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE OTTAWA MISSION FOUNDATION — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCARE CENTRE OTTAWA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCANADA HELPS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBC CANCER FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ARTHRITIS SOCIETY — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNATIONAL ARTS CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$475 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBLUE SEA FOUNDATION — C$350 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTROtt — C$150 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.

Ottawa Community Foun…The Walter and Friedl…The R.A.Beamish Found…Taggart Parkes Founda…Wcpd FoundationConam Charitable Foun…Turnbull Family Commu…Ferguson Family Found…The Minto Greenberg L…The Incorporated Syno…BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON10.3× affinity7 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 Walter and Friedl Stenger Foundation · The R.A.Beamish Foundation · Taggart Parkes Foundation · Wcpd Foundation · Conam Charitable Foundation · Turnbull Family Community Building Foundation · Ferguson Family Foundation · The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation · The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving 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 22 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 823033543:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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