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Ottawa, ON · Private foundation

James A. Burton and Family Foundation

To receive and maintain a fund or funds and to apply all or part of the principal and income therefrom from time to time to charitable organizations that are also registered charities under the income tax act.

C$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$500k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 11 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k1 grant · C$33k
  • C$50k–250k7 grants · C$771k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$900k
C$100,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$45M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FAMILY ENTERPRISE FOUNDATIONC$500,000
THE FAMILTON YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATIONC$400,000
ARTS ORILLIAC$169,000
HAMILTON YMCAC$165,000
BIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF ORILLIA & DISTRICTC$126,000
WAYSIDE HOUSEC$100,000
SHAW FESTIVAL THEATER CANADAC$100,000
SHALEM MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$60,627
THE ROYAL OAK SCHOOLC$50,000
HOME HORIZONC$32,500
ALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH HMILTONC$4,650
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.

88%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$5.6M · 15 repeat orgsC$798k to everyone else

15 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 7 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

15
17

Total granted

C$5.6M
C$524k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+7%
+22%

Still filing today

100%
94%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 84% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$274k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • TL
    THE LIGHTHOUSE
    3× · 2020–2023 · C$1.0M · revenue +178%
  • TF
    THE FAMILTON YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$600k · revenue +23%
  • SF
    SHAW FESTIVAL THEATER CANADA
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$500k · revenue +6%

Funded once

  • TF
    TD FRIENDS OF THE ENVIRONMENT FUND
    one grant, 2022 · C$200k · revenue -1653%
  • AN
    AIDS NETWORK
    one grant, 2022 · C$81k · revenue +22%
  • EH
    EMILY'S HOUSE
    one grant, 2020 · C$75k · revenue +24%

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
Arthouse for Children and Youth

ArtHouse is a Halton-based charitable organization that offers free programs to vulnerable children and youth from 7-17 most particularly to individuals from families who may not have access to arts-related activities. Since 2009 Arthouse…

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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
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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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
Supported Training and Rehabilitation in Diverse Environments

Non-profit community based vocational rehabilitation program servicing the needs of Halton residents facing mental health and addiction issues. Pre-Employment Program offers individuals support and guidance to develop independent…

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6
Strides Toronto Support Services

Strides Toronto is a multi-service agency providing services to young people from birth to age 29 and their families in Toronto. Strides Toronto provides a range of community residential and treatment services to improve the mental social…

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7
The George Hull Centre for Children and Families

The George Hull Centre for Children & Families is an accredited children's mental health centre serving children and youth from birth to age 18 and their families. The Centre provides a range of family-centred services including prevention…

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8
FOOD4KIDS Toronto

Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…

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9
Leap Pecaut Centre for Social Impact

LEAP Pecaut Centre for Social Impact initiates and leads multi-sector collaborations to tackle some of society’s biggest problems in education employment and health. Over five years taking their needs and stages of development into…

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10
Junior Achievement of Central Ontario

Here at JA Central Ontario we envision a world in which young people have the skillset and mindset to build thriving communities. We want to make sure all young people are economically empowered with the skills confidence and networks to…

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11
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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12
Toronto Youth Development

Educational and sports programs for underprivileged at-risk youth in toronto

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ywca Hamilton and the most unlike its peers is Airdrie and District Community Foundation. 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

34 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. 34 of the 35 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.

4
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
34/34
Grantees still filing
23/34
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 budgetFAMILY ENTERPRISE XCHANGE FOUNDATION — C$2,514,976 over 4y, 64% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE — C$1,000,000 over 3y, 10% of budgetTHE FAMILTON YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$600,000 over 2y, 1.2% of budgetSHAW FESTIVAL THEATER CANADA — C$500,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHAMILTON YMCA — C$245,000 over 3y, 17% of budgetTHE LIGHTHOUSE CHARITABLE FOUNDATION — C$210,000 over 2y, 33% of budgetROYAL OAK COMMUNITY SCHOOL — C$180,000 over 4y, 10% of budgetARTS ORILLIA — C$169,000 over 1y, 47% of budgetBIG BROTHER BIG SISTER OF ORILLIA & DISTRICT — C$157,950 over 2y, 27% of budgetWAYSIDE HOUSE — C$100,000 over 1y, 3.7% of budgetAIDS NETWORK — C$81,488 over 1y, 3.8% of budgetEMILY'S HOUSE — C$75,000 over 1y, 2.0% of budgetSHALEM MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$61,127 over 2y, 0.3% of budgetOTTAWA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYELLOW DOOR — C$47,050 over 3y, 18% of budgetHOME HORIZON — C$34,000 over 2y, 3.3% of budgetWE Charity — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWE CHARITY FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetPATHWAYS TO EDUCATION CANADA — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetShalem Mental Health Network — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetFOOD FOR KIDS — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetART GALLERY OF BURLINGTON — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF WESTERN — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetJUMP MATH — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetSojourn House — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetAirdrie and District Community Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetCANADAHELPS CANADON — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt. John Council for Ontario — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetChoice For Change Alcohol Drug and Gambling Counselling Cen — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetGLOWING HEARTS CHARITY — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetALTERNATIVES FOR YOUTH HMILTON — C$4,650 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSEXUAL ASSAULT CENTRE — C$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.

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…Hamilton-Wentworth Re…Ontario Realtors Care…J.P. Bickell Foundati…The Peter Gilgan Foun…United Way Golden Hor…Youth and Philanthrop…National Steel Car Li…The Charitable Corpor…The John & Ellie Voor…The Home Depot Canada…Charities Aid Foundat…
Hamilton Community FoundationON14.2× affinity12 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trustpr · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · The Peter Gilgan Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Youth and Philanthropy Initiative Canada/ Initiative Canada Jeunesse Et Philanthropie · National Steel Car Limited Employees Charitable Donation Fun · The Charitable Corporation of The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM · The John & Ellie Voortman Charitable Foundation · The Home Depot Canada Foundation Fondation Home Depot Canada · Charities Aid Foundation Canada

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 35 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 769936683:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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