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Ottawa, ON · Private foundation

Wesley M Nicol Foundation

The WESLEY M NICOL FOUNDATION donates to other canadian charities.

C$848k
Granted FY2024still arriving
36
Grants FY2024still arriving
5
Regions reached
C$199k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 36 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k8 grants · C$43k
  • C$10k–50k26 grants · C$507k
  • C$50k–250k2 grants · C$299k
C$15,000
Median grant
5
Regions reached
C$29M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
OTTAWA COMMUNITY FOUNDATIONC$199,000
COMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADAC$100,000
CARLETON UNIVERSITYC$47,507
YOUTURN-YOUTH SUPPORT SERVICESC$40,000
PARKDALE FOOD CENTREC$40,000
OPERATION COME HOMEC$35,000
OTTAWA RIVERKEEPERC$30,000
SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF OTTAWAC$25,000
PARKINSON CANADAC$25,000
MUNICIPALITY OF THE TOWNSHIP OF LOWC$22,000
MUSIC AND BEYOND PERFORMING ARTSC$20,000
ORKISTRAC$20,000
PAL OTTAWAC$20,000
MINWAASHIN LODGEC$16,000
NATIONAL ARTS CENTREC$16,000
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$14M · 60 repeat orgsC$563k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +37% since the first grant, against +24% for the ones you funded once.

60 repeat relationships — 26 still active in FY2024, 34 since wound down; 9 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

60
56

Total granted

C$14M
C$465k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+24%

Still filing today

97%
93%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 88% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$98k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • OC
    OTTAWA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$11M · revenue +132% · 46% of their budget
  • CU
    CARLETON UNIVERSITY
    5× · 2017–2024 · C$276k · revenue +18%
  • TI
    THE INCORPORATED SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF OTTAWA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$257k · revenue +50% · 89% of their budget

Funded once

  • HC
    HUMANITARIAN COALITION
    one grant, 2020 · C$30k · revenue -16%
  • C
    CANADAHELPSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$25k · revenue +49%
  • GC
    GOLDEN COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETY
    one grant, 2023 · C$25k · revenue +8%

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 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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2
Ottawa Arts Council / Counseil des arts d'Ottawa

Promotion of local arts activities and opportunities including a billngual website that features and profiles artists and arts organizations. other programs include the annual arts awards; networking mentorship and professional development…

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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
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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5
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research - Institut canadien des recherches avancées

CIFAR’s research programs are at the heart of its operations designed to push the boundaries of knowledge and create long-term societal impact. Currently CIFAR supports 15 research programs across diverse fields from artificial…

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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
International Development Research Centre

Created by Parliament in 1970 IDRC has been committed in supporting research in developing countries undertaken by the people of those countries for their own development. IDRC has five areas of focus: Climate-Resilient Food Systems Global…

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8
Arts Ottawa

Supports artists and art organizations

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9
Birds Canada / Oiseaux Canada

Birds Canada is a leading national charitable organization dedicated to bird conservation. Every day our thousands of caring donors 100+ passionate staff and 70 000+ outstanding Citizen Science volunteers are taking action to help us…

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10
Fondation Brain Canada / Brain Canada Foundation

Brain canada is a national non-profit organization that enables and supports excellent innovative paradigm-changine brain research in canada. it plays a unique and invaluable role as the national convener of the brain research community.…

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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'Ottawa and the most unlike its peers is Jeunesse Sans Frontieres De La Vallee De La Gatineau. 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

120 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. 120 of the 125 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
25
Early backer (in before they grew)
118/120
Grantees still filing
88/120
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 budgetOTTAWA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$10,586,500 over 8y, 46% of budgetCARLETON UNIVERSITY — C$276,301 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetTHE INCORPORATED SYNOD OF THE DIOCESE OF OTTAWA — C$257,000 over 8y, 89% of budgetOPERATION COME HOME — C$245,000 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF KING'S COLLEGE — C$193,500 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetJEUNESSE SANS FRONTIERES VALLEE GATINEAU — C$186,000 over 5y, 24% of budgetCOMMUNITY FOOD CENTRES CANADA — C$175,000 over 5y, 1.0% of budgetOTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$174,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetWabano Centre for Aboriginal Health Inc. — C$167,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$155,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetNATIONAL ARTS CENTRE — C$140,000 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetOTTAWA REGIONAL CANCER FOUNDATION — C$140,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetMAKONSAG ABORIGINAL HEAD START — C$86,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetPAL OTTAWA — C$80,000 over 4y, 9.4% of budgetBRUYERE FOUNDATION — C$80,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetOSU CHILDREN'S LIBRARY FUND — C$75,000 over 5y, 7.9% of budgetOTTAWA BAROQUE CONSORT — C$71,000 over 4y, 83% of budgetOTTAWA RIVERKEEPER — C$70,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada — C$65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetYOUTURN-YOUTH SUPPORT SERVICES — C$60,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetPARKDALE FOOD CENTRE — C$60,000 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCHRISTIE LAKE KIDS — C$53,500 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetRaincoast Conservation Foundation — C$52,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetROYAL OTTAWA FOUNDATION FOR MENTAL HEALTH — C$50,500 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL — C$50,000 over 6y, 17% of budgetUniversity of Ottawa — C$49,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY NATIONAL CAPITAL REGION — C$45,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE GLEBE CENTRE IUNCORPORATED — C$35,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetTUBEROUS SCLEROSIS CANADA — C$35,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF OTTAWA — C$35,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetORKISTRA — C$34,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTEWEGAN HOUSING FOR ABORIGINAL YOUTH — C$33,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetSOUTHMINSTER UNITED CHURCH — C$32,500 over 3y, 2.0% of budgetNATIONAL CAPITAL YMCA-YWCA — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetOTTAWA JAZZ FESTIVAL — C$30,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetHUMANITARIAN COALITION — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPARKINSON CANADA — C$29,500 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetPATRIMOINE ASCOTT HERITAGE — C$29,000 over 4y, 39% of budgetGREAT CANADIAN THEATRE CORPORATION — C$28,500 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetMUSIC AND BEYOND PERFORMING ARTS — C$27,000 over 3y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA HEART INSTITUTE — C$26,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetCANADAHELPS — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGOLDEN COMMUNITY RESOURCES SOCIETY — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetDOUGLAS CARDINAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 29% of budgetCONFLUENCE CONCERTS — C$22,000 over 5y, 5.6% of budgetOTTAWA HUMANE SOCIETY — C$21,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetHARBOURFRONT CENTRE — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.1% 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…Danbe Foundation Inc.Taggart Parkes Founda…The Incorporated Syno…Wcpd FoundationCrabtree Foundation F…The Harry P Ward Foun…The Minto Greenberg L…The Matt FoundationKids Up Front Foundat…Ottawa-Carleton Distr…Turnbull Family Commu…
Ottawa Community Foundation / Fondation Communautaire d'OttawaON31.1× affinity62 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 · Danbe Foundation Inc. · Taggart Parkes Foundation · The Incorporated Synod Of The Diocese Of Ottawa · Wcpd Foundation · Crabtree Foundation Fondation Crabtree · The Harry P Ward Foundation · The Minto Greenberg Legacy Foundation · The Matt Foundation · Kids Up Front Foundation (Ottawa) · Ottawa-Carleton District School Board · Turnbull Family Community Building 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 125 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 119262228:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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