Ancaster, ON · Public foundation
Hamilton Professional Fire Fighters Assistance Fund
Food4kids cancer assistance hamilton general hospital comfort bears ywca ronald mcdonald house interval house special olympics.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k18 grants · C$37k
- C$10k–50k1 grant · C$20k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCE FOUNDATION | C$20,000 |
| RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE | C$6,000 |
| CARE WALK | C$5,030 |
| COMFORT BEARS | C$5,000 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$2,500 |
| BABY DEPOT | C$2,500 |
| WOODVIEW MENTAL HEALTH | C$2,500 |
| CHRISTMAS TREE OF HOPE | C$2,000 |
| GOOD SHEPARD | C$2,000 |
| FOOD4KIDS | C$1,500 |
| THRESHOLD SCHOOL | C$1,500 |
| YWCA | C$1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$1,500 |
| Individual grant recipient | C$1,000 |
| MD | C$1,000 |
Do your dollars go where the need is?
Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.
Your giving at home — 49% of grant dollars (C$128k). The 51% that went abroad (C$131k) is mapped below.
Beyond home — 51% of all-years giving (C$131k)
0 countries, by the recipient’s country on the filing.
International giving is mapped by the recipient’s country from the same T3010 filings; comparable need data isn’t available at that grain.
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.
And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +38% since the first grant, against -18% for the ones you funded once.
23 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 15 since wound down; 11 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, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$18k 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
- MCMacMaster Children's Hospital2× · 2017–2018 · C$2k · revenue +69%
- CCCanadian Cancer Assist Program2× · 2017–2018 · C$2k · revenue +144%
- SOSpecial Olympics2× · 2017–2018 · C$2k · revenue +22%
Funded once
- HGHamilton General Hospital Burn Unitone grant, 2018 · C$14k
- CACANCER ASISTANCE PROGRAMone grant, 2022 · C$7k
- IGIndividual grant recipientone grant, 2023 · C$6k
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.
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…
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…
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…
Provides financial support to various organizations in the community that provide aid and assistance to disabled children in the hamilton and halton area. this includes support to specfic projects administered by hamilton health sciences…
1. Purchase of hospital equipment for Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) 2. Fund therapy and recreation programs for patients at HHS 3. Provide amenities for patients at HHS such as furnishing/refurbishing lounges and waiting areas and provide…
The YMCA of Greater Toronto is a charity that ignites the potential in people helping them grow lead and give back to their communities. For more than 170 years we’ve been tackling the most critical health and social issues in our region.…
Provide quality athletic and social activities for physically and cognitively challenged youth and adults in an encouraging supportive atmosphere
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,…
The goal is to provide ongoing education and support for people with celiac disease. We work with food stores and specialty shops to make celiac safe food available. We continue to develop a national program of education. We also support…
Variety-The Children's Charity (Ontario) aims to break down barriers to accessibility for education sport fitness and improve the quality of life for individuals with a disability in Ontario. Areas of focus include specialized programs…
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…
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.
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford and the most unlike its peers is Pkd Foundation of Canada / Fondation canadienne de la Mpr. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
9 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. 9 of the 71 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.
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: United Way Golden Horseshoe · Sam and Roma Mercanti Foundation · Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trustpr · The Chml Children's Fund · Hamilton Community Foundation · Canada Gives · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · United Way of Greater Toronto · My Tribute Gift Foundation · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne
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.