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Hamilton, ON · Private foundation

Marta and Owen Boris Foundation

The foundation grants to other qualified donees with a focus on health and education in the hamilton ontario area.

C$1.7M
Granted FY2024still arriving
14
Grants FY2024still arriving
3
Regions reached
C$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 14 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–50k8 grants · C$148k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$425k
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$1.2M
C$30,000
Median grant
3
Regions reached
C$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MCMASTER UNIVERSITYC$750,000
HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATIONC$420,000
ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONC$200,000
SINAI HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$125,000
TRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICYC$100,000
PROACTION COPS & KIDSC$42,800
MANNING FOUNDATIONB FOR DEMOCRATIC EDUCATIONC$30,000
JUSTICE CENTREC$24,200
SWIM DRINK FISH CANADAC$11,000
FOOD BANKS MISSISSAUGAC$10,000
CENTRE OF CONSTITUTIONAL FREEDOMSC$10,000
WEST PARRY SOUND HEALTH CENTRE FOUNDATIONC$10,000
CAMPFIRE CIRCLEC$10,000
HALTON POLICE FOUNDATIONC$5,000
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$17M · 16 repeat orgsC$439k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +42% since the first grant, against +4% for the ones you funded once.

16 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 8 since wound down; 5 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

16
14

Total granted

C$17M
C$260k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+42%
+4%

Still filing today

100%
79%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 90% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$179k 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

  • MU
    McMaster University
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$7.6M · revenue +39%
  • SJ
    St. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$5.3M · revenue +18%
  • HH
    HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.2M · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • HB
    HOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2021 · C$56k · revenue +4%
  • CA
    CHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$35k · revenue +24%
  • WP
    WEST PARK HEALTHCARE CENTRE FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2023 · C$30k · revenue +261%

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
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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2
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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3
Canadian Health Foundation
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4
Toronto East Health Network Foundation

Michael Garron Hospital Foundation raises funds and engages our community in support of Michael Garron Hospital a vibrant community teaching hospital serving more than 400 000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. With…

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5
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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6
North Bay Regional Health Centre Foundation

Primary goal is to provide funds for patient-focused care education and research for the benefit of the patients of Nipissing region of Northeastern Ontario. Encourage and administer donations to enhance and improve the services to the…

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7
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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8
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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9
Grand Challenges Canada Foundation
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10
Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation

The Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation raises funds and manages donor gifts for the purpose of supporting outstanding patient care at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre. This includes raising funds for identified capital…

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11
The Hospital for Sick Children

The Hospital for Sick Children (SickKids) is a health-care community dedicated to improving the health of children. Our mission is to provide the best in family-centred compassionate care to lead in scientific and clinical advancement and…

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12
Bluewater Health Foundation

Bluewater Health Foundation raises funds for the hospital group known as Bluewater Health. These funds are spent on capital projects and to facilitate the acquisition of leading edge equipment and technology and the provision of programs…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Holland Bloorview Kids Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation and the most unlike its peers is The Grand Ball 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
32/34
Grantees still filing
21/34
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMcMaster University — C$7,649,963 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetSt. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation — C$5,286,955 over 8y, 9.1% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$2,240,000 over 8y, 1.6% of budgetMULTIPLE SCHLEROSIS SOCIETY OF CANADA — C$300,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetSINAI HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$234,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetSickkids Foundation — C$220,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetSWIM DRINK FISH CANADA — C$125,000 over 5y, 1.7% of budgetCANADIAN WARPLANE HERITAGE MUSEUM — C$114,000 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetPROACTION COPS & KIDS — C$110,100 over 4y, 4.9% of budgetWEST PARRY SOUND HEALTH CARE FOUNDATION — C$100,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetTRUE NORTH CENTRE FOR PUBLIC POLICY — C$100,000 over 1y, 4.0% of budgetMuscular Dystrophy Canada — C$95,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetHAVEN TORONTO — C$60,000 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetHOLLAND BLOORVIEW KIDS REHABILITATION HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$56,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetCAMPFIRE CIRCLE — C$52,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRELEAF FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$50,000 over 2y, 5.7% of budgetTHE MCKEIL FAMILY FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 17% of budgetDE MAZENOD DOOR OUTREACH — C$36,000 over 2y, 4.9% of budgetCHARITIES AID FOUNDATION CANADA — C$35,046 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetJUSTICE CENTRE — C$34,200 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWEST PARK HEALTHCARE CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetMANNING FOUNDATIONB FOR DEMOCRATIC EDUCATION — C$30,000 over 1y, 3.3% of budgetNEIGHBOUR 2 NEIGHBOUR — C$30,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetThe House of Forward Foundation — C$20,000 over 1y, 6.4% of budgetEPILEPSY SOUTH CENTRAL ONTARIO — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetMake-A-Wish Foundation of Canada — C$15,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetJOY AND HOPE OF HAITI — C$10,000 over 1y, 2.6% of budgetFOOD BANKS MISSISSAUGA — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHML CHILDREN'S FUND — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.7% of budgetGrimsby Auxillary Marine Rescue Unit — C$10,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHAVEN CHURCH TORONTO — C$6,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetHALTON POLICE FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.9% of budgetThe Hamilton Academy of Medicine Foundation — C$2,000 over 1y, 2.2% of budgetThe Walrus Foundation — C$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.

The McKeil Family Fou…Hamilton Community Fo…The Arthur and Margar…Canada GivesToronto FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…Ontario Power Generat…United Way Golden Hor…Link Charity Canada I…BenefAction FoundationCharities Aid Foundat…Aqueduct Foundation
The McKeil Family FoundationON9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: The McKeil Family Foundation · Hamilton Community Foundation · The Arthur and Margaret Weisz Family Foundation · Canada Gives · Toronto Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · Ontario Power Generation Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Link Charity Canada Inc · BenefAction Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada · Aqueduct 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 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 2024-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Source object 831796651:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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