Ontario · Registered charity
DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION
DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION (Ontario) receives grants from 25 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,774,845 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY EAST ONTARIO / CENTRAIDE EST DE L'ONTARIO (C$1,277,905). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
Against its field
DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION's funding base is broadening — from 6 funders to 13 as grant income climbed.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 1,601 foundations nonprofits $1M–$10M, FY2024
Three funders worth looking at
Grantmakers with no record of funding this organization, ranked by how strongly the co-funder graph and the mission embeddings agree. The evidence is in section 03.
- Columbus Club - Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio match
- The Ottawa Hospital Foundationlocal
- MOOD DISORDERS SOCIETY OF CANADA La Societe Pour Les Troubles de L'Humeur du Canadaportfolio match
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2017, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2017, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2017 73% · 2018 75% · 2019 75% · 2020 71% · 2021 56% · 2022 62% · 2023 64% · 2024 82%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
62% of DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 0 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Who funds it, year by year
2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 6 funders to 13 funders, grant income rose C$182k → C$197k.
From the CRA filings of DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION leans on a few funders — its largest provides 72% of grant income and the top three 86%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 88% · 2018 85% · 2019 82% · 2020 63% · 2021 85% · 2022 74% · 2023 59% — diversifying over time.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
How long its funders stay
69% of DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 48% give in more than one year at all.
Share of funders still giving k years after their first recorded grant, pooled across every acquisition cohort. A funder counts as retained in a year only if it made a grant that year. Measured to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving — a funder cannot be counted as lapsed in a year most filers have not reached.
Where its funders are
94% of DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION's grant income comes from Ontario funders.
In-province vs out-of-province, by year
Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$73k arriving through sponsors registered in 2 regions is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024 is still being filed and is shown unshaded; it does not move any figure on this page.
Funders to approach
Grantmakers that don’t fund you yet, surfaced two ways: they back organizations that share your funders, or their grantees resemble your mission. The ones both signals agree on come first. Your 25 funders put you under-funded among the 400 organizations that share them.
- Columbus Club - Charitable Foundationlocalportfolio matchON · funds 5 organizations near you · its grantees resemble your mission
- The Ottawa Hospital FoundationlocalON · funds 4 organizations near you
- MOOD DISORDERS SOCIETY OF CANADA La Societe Pour Les Troubles de L'Humeur du Canadaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- United Way of Stormont Dundas & Glengarryportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Canadian Mental Health Association Ontario Divisionportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- Knox United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ottawa Masonic Corporationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- St Paul's United Churchportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- A Dollar A Day Foundationportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- May Court Club of Ottawaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- H.O.P.E. (Helping Other People Everywhere) Ottawa-Carleton Incportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
- The Ottawa Food Bank/La Banque D'Alimentation D'Ottawaportfolio matchits grantees resemble your mission
From the co-funder graph (funders backing at least two comparable organizations, shrunk for grantee count, donor-advised and mega-funds excluded) and the universe embeddings. A research starting point; overlap is association, not a guarantee of fit.
Government revenue DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION reports
Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.
- 82% of FY2024 revenue
- As filed, not traced to an award
Organizations like DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every charity on the CRA register — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Ontario
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Questions and answers
- Who funds DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION?
- DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION (Ontario) receives grants from 25 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$1,774,845 to it, the largest being UNITED WAY EAST ONTARIO / CENTRAIDE EST DE L'ONTARIO (C$1,277,905). 12 of them have funded it in more than one year.
- How many funders does DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION have?
- Canada Revenue Agency filings report 25 organizations giving C$1,774,845 in grants to DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION, 12 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION?
- UNITED WAY EAST ONTARIO / CENTRAIDE EST DE L'ONTARIO is the largest funder on record, with C$1,277,905 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like DISTRESS CENTRE OF OTTAWA AND REGION find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.
These figures are read directly from the CRA's published T3010 data: this organization’s own return for FY2024 (financials across 2017–2024), and the filings of 25 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported September 23, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · View the T3010 on the CRA register