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Burlington, ON · Charitable organization

Burlington Public Library

Public library services at 7 Burlington Ontario locations

C$935
Granted FY2023
6
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$600
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 6 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$75
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$11M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Canadian Cancer SocietyC$600
Bruce Trail ConservationC$85
United WayC$75
Leukemia & Lymphoma Society of CanadaC$75
MSF CanadaC$50
Habitat for HumanityC$50
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.

75%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$4k · 8 repeat orgsC$1k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +63% since the first grant, against +41% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 3 still active in FY2023, 5 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
16

Total granted

C$4k
C$1k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+63%
+41%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 81% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$175 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • FF
    FOOD FOR LIFE
    3× · 2020–2022 · C$1k · revenue +395%
  • CC
    Canadian Cancer Society
    3× · 2017–2023 · C$830 · revenue +6%
  • SK
    SICK KIDS FOUNDATION
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$400 · revenue +60%

Funded once

  • CH
    Caprenter Hospicegraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$200 · revenue +31%
  • HI
    Halton Industry Education Councilgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$120 · revenue +683%
  • SP
    SAMARITAN'S PURSEgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$85 · revenue +60%

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
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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2
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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3
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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4
The Terry Fox Research Institute

The Terry Fox Research Institute ('TFRI') operates as a virtual institute bringing together multi-disciplinary teams of cancer researchers to work on integrated translational research projects. TFRI manages its research granting programs…

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5
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation ('HHSC') is a family of five hospital sites and five specialized facilities in Hamilton and West Niagara. HHSC operates McMaster Children's Hospital Hamilton General Hospital Juravinski Hospital and…

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6
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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7
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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8
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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9
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

Through the support of donors and volunteers we take action and provide programs for every canadian affected by a brain tumour. we provide information including handbooks storybooks information sheets videos and a comprehensive website and…

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10
Health Sciences North Research Institute

Hsnri is focused on contributing to sustainable solutions for health challenges faced by ontario's northern and indigenous communities. our research priority areas are: 1. cancer solutions 2. cardiovascular health 3. healty aging 4.…

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11
The Halton Region Conservation Foundation

The mission of the Foundation is to support and advance Conservation Halton's critical environmental projects that protect our natural assets connect people with nature and inspire change. Fund raised support programs such as tree planting…

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12
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

1. funds researchers working in universities hospitals and research institutes across ontario. 2. provides the public with health information and education programs on preventing and managing heart disease and stroke. 3. provides…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Milton District Hospital Foundation. 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

27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
27/27
Grantees still filing
22/27
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetFOOD FOR LIFE — C$1,425 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Cancer Society — C$830 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetSICK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$400 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetBruce Trail Conservation — C$316 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHalton Women's Place — C$290 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetCaprenter Hospice — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetRABBIT RESCUE INC. — C$170 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetUnited Way — C$120 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHalton Industry Education Council — C$120 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSAMARITAN'S PURSE — C$85 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Foundation Fighting Blindness — C$75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLeukemia & Lymphoma Society of Canada — C$75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMilton District Hospital Foundation — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHeart and Stroke Foundation of Canada — C$50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTHE TERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity — C$50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMSF Canada — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBURLINGTON HUMANE — C$50 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetKingston Humane Society — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetthe Donkey Sanctuary — C$50 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKids Help Phone — C$46 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBurlingtonHumane Society — C$45 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLESBIAN GAY BI TRANS YOUTH LINE — C$45 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHamilton Health Sciences Foundation — C$45 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. CHRISTOPHER'S ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$45 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFood for Kids — C$45 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.

United Way Golden Hor…Oakville Community Fo…Ontario Power Generat…Burlington Community …Charities Aid Foundat…BenefAction FoundationAqueduct FoundationToronto FoundationCanada GivesAbundance CanadaStrategic Charitable …Charitable Gift Funds…
United Way Golden HorseshoeON10.3× affinity8 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: United Way Golden Horseshoe · Oakville Community Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Burlington Community Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · BenefAction Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · Toronto Foundation · Canada Gives · Abundance Canada · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada

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 27 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 2023-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under public amenities.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 130692874:2023-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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