Hamilton, ON · Private foundation
Bob and Peggy Savage Foundation
Support various community organizations in music education and community well-being.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k12 grants · C$29k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$15k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAMILTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA | C$15,000 |
| MOHAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATION | C$5,000 |
| WELCOME INN COMMUNITY CENTRE | C$5,000 |
| UNITED WAY OF BURLINGTON AND GREATER HAMILTON | C$4,000 |
| HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION | C$4,000 |
| HAMILTON FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS | C$3,000 |
| HAMILTON MUSIC COLLECTIVE | C$2,000 |
| BACH ELGAR CHORAL SOCIETY | C$1,000 |
| THE GORD DOWNEY AND CHANIE WENJACK FUND | C$1,000 |
| BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY | C$1,000 |
| QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY | C$1,000 |
| MCMASTER UNIVERSITY | C$1,000 |
| ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION | 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.
12 repeat relationships — 9 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 4 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, 48% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$23k 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
- HPHAMILTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA7× · 2017–2023 · C$102k · revenue +26%
- UWUNITED WAY OF BURLINGTON & GREATER HAMILTON8× · 2017–2024 · C$31k · revenue +138%
- HCHAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION7× · 2017–2023 · C$24k · revenue +68%
Funded once
- QUQUEENS UNIVERSITYgraduatedone grant, 2019 · C$1k · revenue +137%
- TTAFELMUSIKone grant, 2021 · C$1k · revenue +16%
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.
Chorus Hamilton is a registered charitable arts organization and is one of Hamilton's finest choral ensembles. Founded in 1968 to participate in the opening of Mohawk College Fennell Campus the choir is now a 48 member semi-professional…
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…
The Halton Learning Foundation was established to support quality education for students of the Halton District School Board. HLF provides emergency funds for students in need post-secondary scholarships and grants to assist schools that…
McMaster University Scholarships - $4000 Hamilton Child and Family Supports (formerly CAS) Bursary - $1000 Mohawk College Bursary - $1000 CFUW Charitable Trust - $128
The hamilton festival theatre company (hftco) is committed to training platform and amplifying hamilton theatre artists and storytellers. the hamilton festival theatre company builds a community for artists and cultivates work that is…
Supporting outdoor environmental education support for maintenance of passive recreational assets support for maintenance of heritage properties
Our goal is to educate our community about canada's reach and diverse literary heritage while also providing a platform for local writers to share their work. in furtherance of this goal we produce an annual literary festival that includes…
The Toronto Symphony Foundation (TSF) was incorporated to aid the Toronto Symphony in the advancement of Orchestral Music. The TSF receives administers and invests gifts and makes annual distributions to The Toronto Symphony.
1. provide funding to help other foundations/organizations that support education 2. directly support others in need of assistance
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hamilton Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Bruce Trail Conservancy. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
15 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. 15 of the 18 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.
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 HAMILTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
- Who funds UNITED WAY OF BURLINGTON & GREATER HAMILTON ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds WELCOME INN COMMUNITY CENTRE ↗
- Who funds MOHAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds MCMASTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON FOUNDATION FOR STUDENTS SUCCESS ↗
- Who funds QUEENS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds THE GORD DOWNIE AND CHANIE WENJACK FUND ↗
- Who funds THE BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON MUSIC COLLECTIVE ↗
- Who funds ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUEENS UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds TAFELMUSIK ↗
- Who funds BACH ELGAR CHORAL SOCIETY ↗
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: Hamilton Community Foundation · The Schwenger Family Foundation · Incite Foundation for the Arts · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Canada Gives · Aqueduct Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · BenefAction Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · My Tribute Gift 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.