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Ottawa, ON · Private foundation

Trelowen Foundation

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C$12k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$10k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$2k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$10k
C$10,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$823k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHEO Children's Hospital Eastern OntarioC$10,000
Ottawa Food BankC$2,000
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$117k · 7 repeat orgsC$2k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +24% since the first grant, against 0% for the ones you funded once.

7 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

7
3

Total granted

C$117k
C$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+24%
0%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • CF
    CHEO Foundation
    7× · 2018–2024 · C$68k · revenue +138%
  • UO
    University of Waterloo
    2× · 2021–2023 · C$11k · revenue +13%
  • GI
    GRACE INN SHELTER
    3× · 2019–2021 · C$8k · revenue +283%

Funded once

  • SK
    Sick Kids
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k · revenue 0%
  • DR
    Dovercpourt Recreation Center
    one grant, 2018 · C$500 · revenue -2%
  • CC
    Canadian Cancer Society
    one grant, 2019 · C$500 · revenue +2%

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
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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2
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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3
Bluewater Health Foundation

Bluewater Health Foundation raises funds for the hospital group known as Bluewater Health. These funds are spent on capital projects and to facilitate the acquisition of leading edge equipment and technology and the provision of programs…

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4
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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5
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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6
Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation

The Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation raises funds and manages donor gifts for the purpose of supporting outstanding patient care at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre. This includes raising funds for identified capital…

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7
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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8
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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9
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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10
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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11
The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation

The Royal Alexandra Hospital Foundation raises and manages funds to advance and support the Royal Alexandra Hospital Alberta Health Services and post-secondary institutions in Edmonton Alberta. Enhancement includes the funding of equipment…

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12
University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De L'universite D'ottawa

We operate endowed and non-endowed programs to benefit cardiac care research education and equipment purchases at the university of ottawa heart institute (uohi) and the ottawa heart institute research corporation (ohirc). we contribute to…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Children's Hospital of Eastern Ontario Foundation / La Fondation De L'hÔPital Pour Enfants De L'est De L'ontario and the most unlike its peers is Dovercourt Recreation Association. 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

10 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
2
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
7/10
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$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCHEO Foundation — C$68,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOttawa Mission — C$15,000 over 6y, 26% of budgetUniversity of Waterloo — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE INN SHELTER — C$8,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetPECM Hospital Foundation — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetOttawa Food Bank — C$5,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetThree Oaks Foundation — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSick Kids — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDovercpourt Recreation Center — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$500 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.

BenefAction FoundationMy Tribute Gift Found…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
BenefAction FoundationON6.9× affinity4 shared granteesties to 5 of 5Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: BenefAction Foundation · My Tribute Gift Foundation · United Way of Greater Toronto · 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.

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 10 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 833436835:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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