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UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA

UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA (Ontario) receives grants from 236 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$57,339,837 to it, the largest being Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston (C$5,697,593). 150 of them have funded it in more than one year.

C$1.5B
Revenue FY2024
236
Funders on record
C$57M
Grants received
C$2.2B
Net assets
150/236 repeat funderspeak grant-dependency 1%

Against its field

UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA runs a healthier operating margin than half of the 220 teaching institutions nonprofits its size.

Operating margin2% · above the median
Months of reserve1.6mo · below the median
Revenue growth (annualized)5% · below the median

this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 220 teaching institutions nonprofits over $100M, 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.

See all 12 prospects and why each one surfaced →
01The organization over time

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.

100 = 20172017 Revenue 100 (C$1.1B) Expenses 100 (C$1.0B) Net assets 100 (C$2.0B)2018 Revenue 102 (C$1.1B) Expenses 100 (C$1.0B) Net assets 106 (C$2.1B)2019 Revenue 105 (C$1.1B) Expenses 102 (C$1.0B) Net assets 102 (C$2.0B)2020 Revenue 107 (C$1.1B) Expenses 108 (C$1.1B) Net assets 93 (C$1.8B)2021 Revenue 111 (C$1.2B) Expenses 114 (C$1.2B) Net assets 100 (C$2.0B)2022 Revenue 109 (C$1.2B) Expenses 122 (C$1.2B) Net assets 91 (C$1.8B)2023 Revenue 127 (C$1.4B) Expenses 135 (C$1.4B) Net assets 110 (C$2.2B)2024 Revenue 139 (C$1.5B) Expenses 144 (C$1.5B) Net assets 113 (C$2.2B)
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Revenue (139)Expenses (144)Net assets (113)Peer revenue range

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.

2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
ContributionsProgram revenueInvestmentOther

Government-grant reliance: 2017 49% · 2018 49% · 2019 48% · 2020 47% · 2021 46% · 2022 48% · 2023 44% · 2024 43%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.

2% of UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA’s revenue is contributions — more reliant on donations than three-quarters of its peers (0% for the typical peer).

This organization
Typical peer · 208 orgs

Surplus & reserves

Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 2 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.

C$56M
’17
C$73M
’18
C$92M
’19
C$47M
’20
C$42M
’21
−C$76M
’22
−C$4.9M
’23
C$30M
’24
1.6
months of
reserve
02Who funds it

Who funds it, year by year

2017 → 2023: the base broadened from 84 funders to 98 funders, grant income rose C$5.8M → C$9.2M.

Funder
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'18
'19
'20
'21
'22
'23
'24*
total
Wcpd Foundationunclassified
C$5.3M
Actuaunclassified
C$4.4M
The Krembil Foundationunclassified
C$2.3M
The Giustra Foundationunclassified
C$2.0M
Fernwood Foundationunclassified
C$860k
Aqueduct Foundationunclassified
C$563k
Ivey Foundationunclassified
C$443k
funders
84
98
96
88
89
93
98
91

From the CRA filings of UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA’s funders (the co-funder graph). Top 30 of 236 funders by total. 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

UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA has a broad base — no single funder exceeds 10% of grant income, and it takes 9 funders to reach half.

the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 9 funders 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 UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA.

10%
largest funder
27%
top three
~25
effective funders

Largest funder’s share by year: 2017 20% · 2018 15% · 2019 9% · 2020 14% · 2021 13% · 2022 20% · 2023 16% — 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

41% of UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA's funders are still giving 3 years after their first grant; 64% give in more than one year at all.

first grant+1y+2y+3y+4y+5y+6y

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

77% of UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA's grant income comes from Ontario funders.

In-province vs out-of-province, by year

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’18
’19
’20
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’22
’23
Ontario out of province

Funder regions come from each funder’s own filing. C$3.6M arriving through sponsors registered in 9 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.

03Its place in the field

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 236 funders put you well-backed among the 400 organizations that share them.

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 UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA reports

Federal, provincial and municipal funding on the organization’s own T3010 return.

FY2024C$647M
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  • 43% of FY2024 revenue
  • As filed, not traced to an award

Organizations like UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA

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

Carleton University79%The University of Western Ontario79%Collège Boréal D'Arts Appliqués Et de Technologie71%The Algonquin College of Applied Arts and Technology.71%The Ottawa Hospital/L'Hopital D'Ottawa71%Ottawa Hospital Research Institute/ Institut de Recherche de L'Hopital D'Ottawa70%Brock University70%Université de l'Ontario français70%

Nationally

Carleton University79%The University of Western Ontario79%Universite Du Quebec En Outaouais76%University of British Columbia75%University of Prince Edward Island74%The University of Winnipeg74%The University of Manitoba73%University of Saskatchewan72%
04Profile & governance

Read directly from this organization’s own T3010 return, as neutral context.

Where the money goes

94% of spending goes to programs.

Program 94%Management 6%Fundraising 1%

Governance

6
board members

Questions and answers

Who funds UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA?
UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA (Ontario) receives grants from 236 organizations whose Canada Revenue Agency filings report C$57,339,837 to it, the largest being Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston (C$5,697,593). 150 of them have funded it in more than one year.
How many funders does UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA have?
Canada Revenue Agency filings report 236 organizations giving C$57,339,837 in grants to UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA, 150 of which have funded it in more than one year.
Who is the largest funder of UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA?
Weston Family Foundation / Fondation de la famille Weston is the largest funder on record, with C$5,697,593 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
How can an organization like UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA / UNIVERSITÉ D'OTTAWA find more funders?
Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Ontario.

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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 236 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