Ashton, ON · Private foundation
Thomas Cavanagh Foundation
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k3 grants · C$7k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
- C$250k+2 grants · C$500k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| THE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$250,000 |
| CARLETON PLACE & DISTRICT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION | C$250,000 |
| ARNPRIOR REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION | C$10,000 |
| WILLIAM OSLER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| BOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA | C$1,000 |
| ONTARIO BLIND GOLF | C$1,000 |
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 +34% since the first grant, against +31% for the ones you funded once.
5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 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, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1k 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
- TOTHE OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION3× · 2022–2024 · C$750k · revenue +34%
- CPCARLETON PLACE & DISTRICT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · C$375k · revenue +198%
- WOWILLIAM OSLER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION2× · 2023–2024 · C$10k · revenue +92%
Funded once
- LCLANARK COUNTY FOOD BANK INCgraduatedone grant, 2022 · C$5k · revenue +31%
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.
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 HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARLETON PLACE & DISTRICT MEMORIAL HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds ARNPRIOR REGIONAL HEALTH FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WILLIAM OSLER HEALTH SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds LANARK COUNTY FOOD BANK INC ↗
- Who funds BOYS & GIRLS CLUB OTTAWA ↗
- Who funds ONTARIO BLIND GOLF ↗
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: Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · 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.