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Hamilton, ON · Private foundation

Incite Foundation for the Arts

Receiving and managing funds for the exclusive purpose of making gifts to charities registered under the income tax act.

C$2.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
42
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$530k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 42 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k5 grants · C$25k
  • C$10k–50k26 grants · C$537k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$1.1M
  • C$250k+3 grants · C$1.2M
C$22,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$26M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ART OF GALLERY OF HAMILTONC$530,000
HAMILTON PHILARMONIC ORCHESTRAC$432,400
THEATRE AQUARIUSC$265,000
WESTDALE CINEMA GROUPC$215,000
ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENSC$185,000
DUNDAS VALLEY SCHOOL OF ARTC$183,000
HAMILTON MUSIC COLLECTIVEC$180,000
HAMILTON CHILDREN'S CHOIRC$154,899
CENTRE 3C$80,000
ART OF GALLERY OF BURLINGTONC$75,000
HCA DANCE THEATREC$51,000
HAMILTON FESTIVAL THEATRE COMPANYC$41,500
CULTURE FOR KIDS IN THE ARTSC$40,000
BROTT OPERAC$35,000
SOUTHERN ONTARIO LYRIC OPERA - SOLOC$35,000
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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$8.0M · 36 repeat orgsC$252k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +33% since the first grant, against +18% for the ones you funded once.

36 repeat relationships — 34 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

36
6

Total granted

C$8.0M
C$168k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+33%
+18%

Still filing today

97%
33%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 97% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$84k 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

  • HP
    HAMILTON PHILARMONIC ORCHESTRA
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$1.3M · revenue +26%
  • AO
    ART OF GALLERY OF HAMILTON
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.2M · revenue +54%
  • TA
    THEATRE AQUARIUS
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$733k · revenue +20%

Funded once

  • IG
    Individual grant recipient
    one grant, 2021 · C$123k
  • AO
    Art Of Gallery Of Burlington
    one grant, 2018 · C$20k
  • AO
    Art Of Gallery Of Burlington
    one grant, 2017 · C$15k

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 Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
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2
Hamilton Concert Band

We rehearse weekly. About 60 local mucisians attend regularly. The band provides an outlet for their talents. We perform concert band music providing low cost or free entertainment to the public: four or five paid admission concerts per…

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3
Hamilton Academy of Performing Arts

Performing arts school training n dance drama vocal music for professional careers in the arts while pproviding academics for elementary and secondary school students. drama performances full ballets including an annual nutcracker along…

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4
The Gallery Players of Niagara

Live and virtual chamber music concerts

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5
Niagara Concerts
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6
The Art of Time Ensemble

The art of time ensemble brings together canada's foremost classical musicians with some of the country's greatest actors dancers and choreographers as well as jazz and pop musicians to present concerts. programs include music from the…

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7
Syrinx Concerts Toronto

Syrinx was established to produce and promote concerts featuring canadian artists and composers by producing an annual series of chamber concerts.

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8
Hamilton Theatre Inc.

Produced and performed 3 shows ( fun home seassical and the prom )

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9
Halifax Summer Opera Festival Association
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10
Bravo Niagara! Festival of the Arts

Bravo Niagara! presents concerts featuring Canadian and international artists in various venues and public spaces throughout the Niagara region including Niagara-on-the-Lake and St. Catharines. The programming is supported by 15 community…

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11
Highlands Opera Theatre

Produce and present opera primarily in the Haliburton Highlands region. Open community school to public. Provide professional consultants related to opera preformance and singing.

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12
Toronto Festival of Arts Culture and Creativity

The festival operating under the trade name Luminato presents an annual multi-disciplinary arts festival in Toronto each June. We present both free and ticketed events in theatre classical and contemporary music dance and visual arts by…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Art Gallery of Hamilton and the most unlike its peers is Canadahelps Canadon. 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

45 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. 45 of the 50 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.

7
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
13
Early backer (in before they grew)
44/45
Grantees still filing
31/45
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 PHILARMONIC ORCHESTRA — C$1,315,400 over 8y, 21% of budgetART OF GALLERY OF HAMILTON — C$1,220,000 over 7y, 6.2% of budgetTHEATRE AQUARIUS — C$732,500 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetHAMILTON CHILDREN'S CHOIR — C$546,899 over 8y, 22% of budgetHAMILTON MUSIC COLLECTIVE — C$535,000 over 8y, 23% of budgetROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS — C$432,000 over 7y, 0.9% of budgetDUNDAS VALLEY SCHOOL OF ART — C$428,000 over 8y, 6.7% of budgetArt Of Gallery Of Hamilton — C$331,500 over 7y, 2.9% of budgetWESTDALE CINEMA GROUP — C$301,000 over 6y, 18% of budgetCENTRE 3 — C$220,500 over 8y, 7.9% of budgetBROTT OPERA — C$153,000 over 8y, 2.3% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY LIVELAB — C$153,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON ARTISTS INC — C$149,000 over 8y, 9.8% of budgetHAMILTON ALL STAR JAZZ BAND — C$123,000 over 8y, 39% of budgetCULTURE FOR KIDS IN THE ARTS — C$122,500 over 8y, 8.0% of budgetSOUTHERN ONTARIO LYRIC OPERA - SOLO — C$114,500 over 6y, 34% of budgetHCA DANCE THEATRE — C$114,500 over 6y, 24% of budgetBURLINGTON SYMPHONY — C$114,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON FESTIVAL THEATRE COMPANY — C$112,500 over 6y, 6.8% of budgetBACH ELGAR CHOIR — C$96,000 over 8y, 16% of budgetCARNEGIE GALLERY — C$89,500 over 8y, 4.4% of budgetCHAMBER MUSIC HAMILTON — C$77,000 over 7y, 31% of budgetTOTTERING BIPED THEATRE — C$59,500 over 7y, 16% of budgetHAMILTON ARTS COUNCIL — C$55,000 over 5y, 10% of budgetSymphony on the Bay — C$47,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetFACTORY MEDICA — C$43,000 over 5y, 7.5% of budgetHAMILTON ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS — C$42,500 over 5y, 48% of budgetBURLINGTON NEW MILLENNIUM ORCHESTRA — C$40,000 over 4y, 50% of budgetSINFONIA ANCASTER — C$39,500 over 7y, 2.2% of budgetMUSICATA — C$35,000 over 4y, 41% of budgetSHALEM MENTAL HEALTH — C$29,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetWORKERS ARTS AND HERITAGE — C$28,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetMusikay — C$25,500 over 5y, 54% of budgetCHORUS HAMILTON — C$15,500 over 4y, 18% of budgetDRURY LANE THEATRE — C$15,000 over 2y, 3.1% of budgetGREAT LAKES MUSIC MAKERS — C$14,000 over 1y, 22% of budgetHAMILTON LITERACY FESTIVAL ASSOCIATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 8.5% of budgetHAMILTON MUSIC FESTIVAL — C$10,000 over 2y, 7.6% of budgetHAMILTON CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetHAMSMART — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF HAMILTON AM — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.8% of budgetCONCERTS IN CARE ONTARIO — C$5,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetHARLEQUIN SINGERS — C$5,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetThe Players Guild of Hamilton — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetTAFELMUSIK — C$2,500 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.

  • Who funds HAMILTON PHILARMONIC ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds ART OF GALLERY OF HAMILTON ↗
  • Who funds THEATRE AQUARIUS ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON CHILDREN'S CHOIR ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON MUSIC COLLECTIVE ↗
  • Who funds ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS ↗
  • Who funds DUNDAS VALLEY SCHOOL OF ART ↗
  • Who funds Art Of Gallery Of Hamilton ↗
  • Who funds WESTDALE CINEMA GROUP ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE 3 ↗
  • Who funds BROTT OPERA ↗
  • Who funds MCMASTER UNIVERSITY LIVELAB ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON ARTISTS INC ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON ALL STAR JAZZ BAND ↗
  • Who funds CULTURE FOR KIDS IN THE ARTS ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHERN ONTARIO LYRIC OPERA - SOLO ↗
  • Who funds HCA DANCE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds BURLINGTON SYMPHONY ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON FESTIVAL THEATRE COMPANY ↗
  • Who funds BACH ELGAR CHOIR ↗
  • Who funds CARNEGIE GALLERY ↗
  • Who funds CHAMBER MUSIC HAMILTON ↗
  • Who funds TOTTERING BIPED THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON ARTS COUNCIL ↗
  • Who funds Symphony on the Bay ↗
  • Who funds FACTORY MEDICA ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS ↗
  • Who funds BURLINGTON NEW MILLENNIUM ORCHESTRA ↗
  • Who funds SINFONIA ANCASTER ↗
  • Who funds MUSICATA ↗
  • Who funds SHALEM MENTAL HEALTH ↗
  • Who funds WORKERS ARTS AND HERITAGE ↗
  • Who funds Musikay ↗
  • Who funds CHORUS HAMILTON ↗
  • Who funds DRURY LANE THEATRE ↗
  • Who funds GREAT LAKES MUSIC MAKERS ↗

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…Burlington Community …Art Gallery of Hamilt…Ontario Arts Foundati…Pieczonka Family Foun…The Chml Children's F…The Herb and Cece Sch…The Charitable Corpor…United Way Golden Hor…The Henry White Kinne…Bob and Peggy Savage …The Schwenger Family …
Hamilton Community FoundationON33.3× affinity36 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · Burlington Community Foundation · Art Gallery of Hamilton · Ontario Arts Foundation/Fondation Des Arts de L'Ontario · Pieczonka Family Foundation · The Chml Children's Fund · The Herb and Cece Schreiber Family Foundation · The Charitable Corporation of The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM · United Way Golden Horseshoe · The Henry White Kinnear Foundation · Bob and Peggy Savage Foundation · The Schwenger Family 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 50 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 arts.

Source object 851449306:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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