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Hamilton, ON · Public foundation

Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

C$14M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$12M
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k11 grants · C$41k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$43k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$14M
C$5,540
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$221M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Hamilton Health SciencesC$12,053,905
McMaster UniversityC$1,610,163
Autism Alliance of CanadaC$351,166
The Hospital for Sick ChildrenC$50,000
Royal Botanical GardensC$19,962
HHS Volunteer AssociationC$13,172
Sinai Health SystemC$10,000
Hamilton Conservation AuthorityC$9,922
YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington/BrantfordC$5,540
Canadian Diabetes Association o/a Diabetes CanadaC$5,500
Hospital Family Houses of OntarioC$5,000
Community Support Services of NiagaraC$4,906
Victorian Order of Nurses for CanadaC$3,491
Society of Saint Vincent De Paul Hamilton West Particular CoC$2,700
St. Michael's HospitalC$1,837
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.

99%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$131M · 5 repeat orgsC$847k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +27% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 13 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
6

Total granted

C$131M
C$385k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+12%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$462k 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

  • HH
    Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$126M · revenue +35%
  • MU
    McMaster University
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$5.3M · revenue +27%
  • HV
    HHS Volunteer Association
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$23k · revenue +13%

Funded once

  • SJ
    St. Joseph's Heathcare Foundation
    one grant, 2022 · C$249k · revenue +24%
  • HF
    Hospital for Sick Children Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$118k · revenue +6%
  • PP
    Pink Pearl Foundation
    one grant, 2023 · C$9k · revenue -3%

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.

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Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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2
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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3
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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4
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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5
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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6
Kingston Health Sciences Centre

Kingston health sciences centre is southeastern ontario's complex acute and specialty care research and teaching hospital . consisting of our hotel dieu hospital site and kingston general hospital site as well as the cancer centre of…

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7
Research St Joseph's - Hamilton

The research institute of st. joe's hamilton is an academic and research community focused on improving the quality of life for our patients and community members as well as those diagnosed with a diverse range of medical conditions around…

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8
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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9
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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10
St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

Operation of a public teaching hospital. provides approximately 804 beds for acute mental health rehabilitation and chronic beds; affiliated with research and various colleges and universities.

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11
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre

Sunnybrook health sciences centre is a teaching and research hospital affiliated with the university of toronto. sunnybrook is focused on providing care that is tailored to the patient's unique needs developing a system of care around the…

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12
North York General Hospital

North york general hospital is a muli-site teaching hospital serving people in north central toronto and southern york region. our hsopiatl is a nationally recognized leader in genetics paediatrics and neonatal critical care. we provide…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Hamilton Health Sciences Volunteer Association and the most unlike its peers is Royal Botanical Gardens. 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

24 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
1
Early backer (in before they grew)
24/24
Grantees still filing
9/24
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 Health Sciences Foundation — C$125,815,393 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetMcMaster University — C$5,256,097 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetAutism Alliance of Canada — C$351,166 over 1y, 41% of budgetSt. Joseph's Heathcare Foundation — C$249,400 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetHospital for Sick Children Foundation — C$117,800 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Hospital for Sick Children — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHHS Volunteer Association — C$23,246 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetRoyal Botanical Gardens — C$19,962 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Support Services of Niagara — C$10,784 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSinai Health System — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHamilton Conservation Authority — C$9,922 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCanadian Diabetes Association o/a Diabetes Canada — C$9,900 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetPink Pearl Foundation — C$8,911 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetChildren First Canada — C$7,500 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetYMCA of Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford — C$5,540 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHospital Family Houses of Ontario — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetVictorian Order of Nurses for Canada — C$3,491 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSociety of Saint Vincent De Paul Hamilton West Particular Co — C$2,700 over 1y, 1.5% of budgetSt. Michael's Hospital — C$1,837 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHamilton Brain Injury Association — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHolland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital — C$976 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWest Lincoln Memorial Hospital Foundation — C$475 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGLANBROOK HOME SUPPORT PROGRAMME INC — C$353 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDundas Community Services — C$130 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.

Hamilton Community Fo…United Way Golden Hor…Niagara Community Fou…Canada GivesCharities Aid Foundat…My Tribute Gift Found…Strategic Charitable …Aqueduct FoundationBenefAction FoundationCharitable Gift Funds…United Way East Ontar…Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…
Hamilton Community FoundationON10.2× affinity7 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · Canada Gives · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · My Tribute Gift Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Aqueduct Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation

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 24 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 public foundation under foundations.

Source object 131159543:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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