Ottawa, ON · Private foundation
The Winchester Benevolent Society
1) funding for religious organization 2) funding for 2 food banks 3) funding for outreach programs 4) funding for local hospital for programs & equipment 5) funding for local women's shelter
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k3 grants · C$17k
- C$10k–50k2 grants · C$43k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| WOMH FOUNDATION | C$25,000 |
| HOUSE OF LAZARUS | C$18,000 |
| COMMUNITY FOOD SHARE | C$9,000 |
| HARMONY COMMUNITY CHURCH | C$5,000 |
| NAOMILS FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRE | C$3,000 |
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 +237% since the first grant, against +138% for the ones you funded once.
6 repeat relationships — 4 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 1 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (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 FY2024, 58% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$25k 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
- HOHOUSE OF LAZARUS8× · 2017–2024 · C$156k · revenue +237%
- WFWDMH FOUNDATION6× · 2017–2023 · C$145k · revenue +388%
- CFCOMMUNITY FOOD SHARE8× · 2017–2024 · C$71k · revenue +383%
Funded once
- WDWINCHESTER DISTRICT MEMORIAL HOSPITALone grant, 2019 · C$25k
- CFCHEO FOUNDATIONgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue +138%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
7 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. 7 of the 9 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.
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: Knox Presbyterian Women's Missionary Society · St. Andrew's Presbyterian Church · Hope Springs United Church · Christian Reformed Church of Williamsburg · United Way of Kingston Frontenac Lennox & Addington · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon
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.