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Hamilton, ON · Charitable organization

Dofasco Employee Donations Fund

Receive funds from employees by payroll deductions and distribute these funds to charitable organizations and other worthwhile community-minded organizations which have charitable organization numbers.

C$200k
Granted FY2024still arriving
8
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$60k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 8 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k7 grants · C$140k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$60k
C$20,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$51k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
HAMILTON FOOD SHAREC$60,000
SHALEM MENTAL HEALTHC$40,000
541 EATERY & EXCHANGEC$30,000
WESLEY URBAN MINISTRIESC$20,000
NEIGHBOUR TO NEIGHBOUR CENTREC$15,000
LIVING ROCK YOUTH SERVICESC$15,000
ROTARY CLUB OF HAMILTONC$10,000
GOOD SHEPHERD CENTREC$10,000
02The need
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Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Your giving at home — 58% of grant dollars (C$1.5M). The 42% that went abroad (C$1.1M) is mapped below.

Beyond home — 42% of all-years giving (C$1.1M)

0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.

grant dollars sentlessmore

International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.

03Your 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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.2M · 27 repeat orgsC$388k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +46% since the first grant, against +20% for the ones you funded once.

27 repeat relationships — 6 still active in FY2024, 21 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

27
20

Total granted

C$2.2M
C$348k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+46%
+20%

Still filing today

70%
35%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 80% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$40k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23’24
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

  • HF
    HAMILTON FOOD SHARE
    5× · 2018–2024 · C$255k · revenue +140%
  • SM
    SHALEM MENTAL HEALTH
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$145k · revenue +10%
  • NT
    NEIGHBOUR TO NEIGHBOUR CENTRE
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$120k · revenue +38%

Funded once

  • HF
    HAMILTON FOOD SHARE
    one grant, 2023 · C$60k
  • SM
    SHALEM MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k
  • GS
    GOOD SHEPARD CENTRE
    one grant, 2018 · C$30k

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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.

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Housing Help Centre for Hamilton and Area

Housing help centre - hamilton and area (the 'centre') is a non-profit social service agency that has acted as a portal to housing services since 1988. the centre provides information advocacy and support to people who need housing…

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2
Good Shepherd Non-Profit Homes Inc

Good Shepherd Non-Profit Homes Inc. provides supportive housing in Hamilton. Tenants are typically those with mental or physical disabilities and victims of domestic violence.

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3
The Hamilton Dream Center

We operate a food and clothing bank serving the needy in the area east of downtown hamilton. we provide life skills training and counselling to the needy. we provide for several school lunch programs and share our excess food and clothing…

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4
Hamilton Association for Residential & Recreational Redevelopment Programs

HARRRP runs community centres in Hamilton, ON that provide free programs and services to neighborhood residents. They are community hubs where people meet in structured and casual ways to engage in educational, artistic, recreational,…

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5
Hamilton Urban Core Community Health Centre

We provide primary health care and health promotion programs. we provide counselling education and outreach. we provide support groups for isolated individuals. we provide emergency food access. we hold life skills and personal development…

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6
Hamilton Jewish Family Services

Hamilton jewish family services provides a full range of social services to meet the demands of the changing needs of our local jewish community in hamilton. this includes mental health counselling financial assistance and food bank.

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7
Canadian Mental Health Association Hamilton Branch

Programs designed to assist the psychiatric population of the city of hamilton community development program- inter-agency liaison; mental health court services/diversion program; evening social recreation rehabilitation program case…

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8
FOOD4KIDS Hamilton

To provide healthy food for children aged 4-14 years with limited or no food weekends or during the summer months.

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9
Community Living Hamilton

Community Living Hamilton is an organization providing services and supports to individuals with an intellectual disability and their families. Services include: Community Participation Leisure and Recreation Respite Employment Residential…

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10
Hamilton Child and Family Supports

Hamilton Child and Family Supports in partnership with families and our community is committed to the safety protection and well-being of children and the strengthening of families while valuing diversity and promoting equity.

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11
The Bridge From Prison to Community (Hamilton)

Discharge planning for ex-offenders transitional housing for ex-offenders supportive meetings one-on-one occupational therapy support for offenders and family members photovoice and rec therapy household repairs apprenticeship program for…

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12
Halton Women's Place

We operate two emergency shelters in Halton Region for abused women and their dependent children. Staff are on duty 24/7 and meals clothing information transportation and other related services are available. We operate a 24 hour crisis…

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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 The Baby Depot. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

28 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. 28 of the 49 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
28/28
Grantees still filing
23/28
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$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetHAMILTON FOOD SHARE — C$255,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSHALEM MENTAL HEALTH — C$145,000 over 4y, 2.3% of budgetNEIGHBOUR TO NEIGHBOUR CENTRE — C$120,000 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetEASTER SEAL SOC OF HAMILTON & WELLINGTON REGIONAL — C$83,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetMARK PREECE FAMILY HOUSE — C$72,000 over 5y, 3.3% of budgetWESLEY URBAN MINISTRIES — C$71,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES CANADA — C$65,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetHamilton Out of the Cold Program — C$65,000 over 6y, 14% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD CENTRE — C$65,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM — C$60,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetLIVING ROCK YOUTH RESOURCES — C$55,840 over 3y, 1.3% of budgetMISSON SERVICES OF HAMILTON — C$55,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetYWCA HAMILTON — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHABITAT FOR HUMANITY — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetHamilton East Kiwanis Non-Profit Homes — C$32,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budget541 EATERY & EXCHANGE — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetYWCA Hamilton — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetROUTES YOUTH CENTER — C$20,000 over 3y, 11% of budgetINDWELL — C$18,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD 4 KIDS HAMILTON — C$17,000 over 3y, 14% of budgetST.MATHEWS HOUSE — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE OF HAMILTON — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF HAMILTON — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.7% of budgetTHE BABY DEPOT — C$9,900 over 2y, 6.8% of budgetCITY KIDS MINISTRIES — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetEVA ROTHWELL CENTER — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetSalvation Army — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.5% of budgetFIT ACTIVE BEAUTIFUL — C$2,700 over 1y, 1.5% 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.

  • Who funds HAMILTON FOOD SHARE ↗
  • Who funds SHALEM MENTAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds NEIGHBOUR TO NEIGHBOUR CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEAL SOC OF HAMILTON & WELLINGTON REGIONAL ↗
  • Who funds MARK PREECE FAMILY HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds WESLEY URBAN MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds MARCH OF DIMES CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Hamilton Out of the Cold Program ↗
  • Who funds GOOD SHEPHERD CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds CANCER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM ↗
  • Who funds LIVING ROCK YOUTH RESOURCES ↗
  • Who funds MISSON SERVICES OF HAMILTON ↗
  • Who funds YWCA HAMILTON ↗
  • Who funds HABITAT FOR HUMANITY ↗
  • Who funds Hamilton East Kiwanis Non-Profit Homes ↗
  • Who funds 541 EATERY & EXCHANGE ↗
  • Who funds YWCA Hamilton ↗
  • Who funds ROUTES YOUTH CENTER ↗
  • Who funds INDWELL ↗
  • Who funds FOOD 4 KIDS HAMILTON ↗
  • Who funds ST.MATHEWS HOUSE ↗
  • Who funds INTERVAL HOUSE OF HAMILTON ↗

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 Chml Children's F…United Way Golden Hor…The John & Ellie Voor…The Charitable Corpor…Hamilton-Wentworth Re…Ontario Realtors Care…Congregation of the S…Sydney Wood Purple Bu…The Kehila Jewish Day…Horizon Employees' Ch…Sam and Roma Mercanti…
Hamilton Community FoundationON20.6× affinity18 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · The Chml Children's Fund · United Way Golden Horseshoe · The John & Ellie Voortman Charitable Foundation · The Charitable Corporation of The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM · Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trustpr · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada · Sydney Wood Purple Butterfly of Hope Foundation · The Kehila Jewish Day School · Horizon Employees' Charity Fund · Sam and Roma Mercanti 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 49 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 charitable organization under foundations.

Source object 118886530:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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