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Hamilton, ON · Public foundation

Kelly Dunham Memorial Foundation

Golf fundraiser payments to qualified charities actively solicit donations from individuals and businesses

C$27k
Granted FY2024still arriving
11
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$4k
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.

C$2,500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$56k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
INTERVAL HOUSE OF HAMILTONC$3,500
MCMASTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONC$2,500
MOHAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$2,500
KIDSPORT OF ONTARIOC$2,500
HAMILTON KIWANIS EAST BOYS & GIRLS CLUBC$2,500
KEMP CARE NETWORKC$2,500
CANCER ASSISTANCE PROGRAMC$2,500
NEIGHBOUR 2 NEIGHBOURC$2,500
COMFORT BEARS INCC$2,500
HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATIONC$2,500
SYDNEY WOOD PURPLE BUTTERFLY OF HOPE FOUNDATIONC$1,000
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.

82%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$41k · 8 repeat orgsC$9k to everyone else

8 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 0 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

8
2

Total granted

C$41k
C$3k

Still filing today

88%
0%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 78% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$6k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • IH
    INTERVAL HOUSE OF HAMILTON
    2× · 2023–2024 · C$7k · revenue +12%
  • N2
    NEIGHBOUR 2 NEIGHBOUR
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$6k · revenue +35%
  • HK
    HAMILTON KIWANIS EAST BOYS & GIRLS CLUB
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$6k · revenue +26%

Funded once

  • MC
    MOHAWK COLLEGE
    one grant, 2023 · C$2k
  • BK
    BOB KEMP HOSPICE
    one grant, 2022 · C$1k

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 Health Sciences Corporation

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…

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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
Hamilton Professional Fire Fighters Assistance Fund

Food4kids cancer assistance hamilton general hospital comfort bears ywca ronald mcdonald house interval house special olympics. essential aid and other local community support through donations to individual causes

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4
Canadian Federation of University Women Hamilton

McMaster University Scholarships - $4000 Hamilton Child and Family Supports (formerly CAS) Bursary - $1000 Mohawk College Bursary - $1000 CFUW Charitable Trust - $128

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5
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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6
Hamilton Health Sciences Volunteer Association

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…

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7
The Hamilton Academy of Medicine Foundation

Provides donations to local charitable organizations. The Ben Finkelstein Family Practice Award - awarded to a Family Practice medical student in their final year of residency at McMaster University.

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8
Fight Like Mason Foundation

Providing grant funding towards annual childhood cancer grants and treatment initiatives. Providing numerous unique and specialized community support programs for children and families affected by childhood cancer. Bereavement support with…

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9
Wellwood Resource Centre of Hamilton

We offer a wide range of supportive services available at no cost to anyone affected by cancer. These are presented as a hybrid of in-person and virtual programs within the following themes: Peer Support (such as One-on-One Mentorship and…

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10
Niagara Tournament of Hope

Donate funds for breast cancer research and detection and cancer support services

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11
The Healing Cycle Foundation

Supporting Hospice palliative care programs in Ontario

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12
Halton Learning Foundation

The Halton Learning Foundation was established to support quality education for students of the Halton District School Board. HLF provides emergency funds for students in need post-secondary scholarships and grants to assist schools that…

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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 Comfort Bears Inc.. 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

10 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. 10 of the 13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
0
Early backer (in before they grew)
10/10
Grantees still filing
8/10
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 budgetINTERVAL HOUSE OF HAMILTON — C$6,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetNEIGHBOUR 2 NEIGHBOUR — C$5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON KIWANIS EAST BOYS & GIRLS CLUB — C$5,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetKEMP CARE NETWORK — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY FOUNDATION — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCOMFORT BEARS INC — C$4,500 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMOHAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$2,500 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…The Chml Children's F…United Way Golden Hor…Horizon Employees' Ch…Sam and Roma Mercanti…Hamilton-Wentworth Re…Canada GivesPrivate Giving Founda…BenefAction FoundationStrategic Charitable …Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fo…United Way East Ontar…
Hamilton Community FoundationON10.7× affinity7 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 · Horizon Employees' Charity Fund · Sam and Roma Mercanti Foundation · Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trustpr · Canada Gives · Private Giving Foundation · BenefAction Foundation · Strategic Charitable Giving Foundation · Rbc Foundation/Rbc Fondation · United Way East Ontario / Centraide Est de L'Ontario

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 13 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 767558349:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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