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Hamilton, ON · Private foundation

Columbia International Scholarship Endowment Fund

Advancing education by: 1.

C$15k
Granted FY2024still arriving
7
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$4k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 7 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$2,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
YMHC CHARITABLE FOUNDATIONC$4,000
TELLING TALESC$2,000
KIDS CARE ONCOLOGY CENTRAL WEST ONTARIOC$2,000
FOOD4KIDS HAMILTONC$2,000
THE GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUNDC$2,000
NEIGHBOUR TO NEIGHBOUR CENTREC$2,000
THE PRIORY OF CANADA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDERC$1,000
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.

48%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$65k · 8 repeat orgsC$70k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +65% since the first grant, against +51% for the ones you funded once.

8 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 3 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
17

Total granted

C$65k
C$67k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+51%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$3k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • MC
    MCMASTER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2019 · C$11k · revenue +226%
  • TG
    THE GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUND
    3× · 2021–2024 · C$8k · revenue +75%
  • I
    INDSPIRE
    2× · 2021–2023 · C$6k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • MU
    MCMASTER UNIVERSITYgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k · revenue +37%
  • OC
    ONTARIO CHRISTIAN GLEANERSgraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$5k · revenue +85%
  • TD
    THE DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k · revenue +16%

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
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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2
Hamilton Community Foundation

Hamilton community foundation drives positive change in hamilton by building and managing endowed and other charitable funds and making strategic and effective grants and loans to charitable organizations and initiatives. we facilitate…

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3
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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4
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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5
Halton Learning Foundation

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…

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6
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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7
Hamilton Foundation for Student Success
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8
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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9
Healthbridge Foundation of Canada

HealthBridge works with partners world-wide to improve health and health equity through research policy and action in the following programming areas: Food and Nutrition: combating hunger and malnutrition and improving food security;…

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10
Hamilton Professional Fire Fighters Assistance Fund

Food4kids cancer assistance hamilton general hospital comfort bears ywca ronald mcdonald house interval house special olympics. essential aid and other local community support through donations to individual causes

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11
Hamilton Food for Thought

1. provide funding to help other foundations/organizations that support education 2. directly support others in need of assistance

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12
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbour to Neighbour Centre (Hamilton) and the most unlike its peers is Galcom International Incorporated. 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

26 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. 26 of the 27 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
26/26
Grantees still filing
18/26
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 budgetHAMILTON VICTORY GARDENS — C$23,400 over 3y, 17% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMCMASTER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$11,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetTHE GORD DOWNIE & CHANIE WENJACK FUND — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFOOD4KIDS HAMILTON — C$5,900 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetINDSPIRE — C$5,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetONTARIO CHRISTIAN GLEANERS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetYMHC CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 2y, 1.6% of budgetTHE DAVID SUZUKI FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGALCOM INTERNATIONAL CANADA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMISSION SERVICES OF HAMILTON — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM VILLAGE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetNEIGHBOUR TO NEIGHBOUR CENTRE — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS — C$3,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTELLING TALES — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN ROOTS EXCHANGE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFIRST NATIONS FAMILY AND CARING SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetINDIAN RESIDENTIONAL SCHOOL SURVIVORS SOCIETY — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSHALOM VILLAGE NURSING HOME — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetKIDS CARE ONCOLOGY CENTRAL WEST ONTARIO — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY CLUB OF BURLINGTON-LAKESHORE TRUST FUND — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHE TERRY FOX FOUNDATION — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE PRIORY OF CANADA OF THE MOST VENERABLE ORDER — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEVA ROTHWELL CENTRE — C$1,000 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.

Hamilton Community Fo…The Allen and Milli G…The Chml Children's F…United Way Golden Hor…The Charitable Corpor…Hamilton-Wentworth Re…Gore Mutual Insurance…Canada GivesYouth and Philanthrop…BenefAction FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Vancouver Foundation
Hamilton Community FoundationON10.5× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · The Allen and Milli Gould Family Foundation · The Chml Children's Fund · United Way Golden Horseshoe · The Charitable Corporation of The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM · Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trustpr · Gore Mutual Insurance Company Foundation · Canada Gives · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · BenefAction Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Vancouver 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 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 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 support of schools and education.

Source object 815761291:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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