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Hamilton, ON · Charitable organization

Melrose United Church

We hold weekly worship sessions in person and online.

C$7k
Granted FY2024still arriving
2
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$7k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 2 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$7,086
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.9M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
United Church of Canada Mission and ServiceC$7,086
Helping Hands Street MissionC$100
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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$84k · 3 repeat orgsC$2k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +96% since the first grant, against +1% for the ones you funded once.

3 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2024, 1 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

3
10

Total granted

C$84k
C$2k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+96%
+1%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • UC
    United church of Canada Mission & Service
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$80k · revenue +22%
  • WU
    Wesley Urban Ministries
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$4k · revenue +96%
  • HH
    Helping Hands Street Mission
    2× · 2021–2024 · C$125 · revenue +495%

Funded once

  • OC
    Ontario Christian Gleanersgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$385 · revenue +53%
  • MH
    Micah House
    one grant, 2017 · C$358 · revenue +1%
  • PH
    Project Harvestgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$335 · revenue +25%

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
Fh Canada

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…

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2
OneMeal Inc.

Prepares and gives out food packages to homeless people in toronto

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3
Habitat for Humanity Canada/Habitat Pour L'humanitÉ Canada

Habitat for Humanity Canada' brings communities together to help families build strength stability and independence through affordable homeownership. In fulfilling this mission we provide resources training and ongoing support to help…

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4
Ywca Hamilton

Provide safe and affordable housing solutions through an overnight emergency drop-in/shelter; transitional housing for women and children fleeing violence; permanent affordable housing for women gender diverse people and families; and…

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5
Muslim Hands

Delivery of projects outside of Canada is through an affiliated Muslim Hands Organization. Together with local partners and country offices Muslim Hands is working in the world's poorest countries to tackle the root causes of poverty and…

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6
Humanity First

Humanitarian relief work in Canada and around the world. Assist victims of natural disasters including flood famines earthquakes illness or any other misfortune of life. Help relieve poverty and deprivation that may exist any where in the…

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7
Hands for Charity

International Programs: Emergency Relief for refugees and IDPs Winter kit distributions Food distributions Cash assistance to orphans Providing shelters for displaced families and Udhiya/Qurbani. Water and Sanitation – increase access to…

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8
Shelterbox Canada

ShelterBox Canada provides shelter essential items and technical assistance to help some of the world’s most vulnerable people recover and rebuild their homes after disaster. ShelterBox teams listen and adapt our support to the needs of…

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9
Second Harvest Canada Deuxième Récolte Canada

Second harvest is canada's largest food rescue organization and a global thought leader on perishable food recovery. operating at the intersection of hunger relief and environmental protection second harvest rescues perishable…

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10
Islamic Relief - Ir Canada

Islamic Relief Canada carries out humanitarian and development programs in over 30 countries. Programs include: • Livelihoods focused on climate-adaptive support and/or economic empowerment; • Health including water sanitation and hygiene…

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11
Hamilton Out of the Cold Program Coalition

Provides free meals for the homeless and very poor 6 nights per week. also provides breakfat for the homeless 6 days per week at downtown hamilton churches of various denominations. provide funding to operatea women's shelter space and…

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12
Mennonite Central Committee (Mcc) British Columbia

Forwards funds to Mennonite Central Committee Canada to support international relief. Warehouse collects and ships clothing/blankets/food/medical supplies to Mennonite Central Committee Canada for forwarding to other countries. Partners…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St Matthew's House and the most unlike its peers is Project Harvest - Proyecto Cosecha. 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

13 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
3
Early backer (in before they grew)
13/13
Grantees still filing
8/13
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 budgetUnited church of Canada Mission & Service — C$79,572 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetWesley Urban Ministries — C$4,444 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetOntario Christian Gleaners — C$385 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMicah House — C$358 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetProject Harvest — C$335 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetHumanitarian Coalition — C$315 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCanadian Food Grains Bank — C$213 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEssential Aid and Family Services of Ontario Limited — C$167 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetHelping Hands Street Mission — C$125 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt. Matthew's House — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCave Springs Camp Inc. — C$90 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetParis Presbyterian Church (The Raw Carrot) — C$75 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetThe Bridge From Prison To Community (Hamilton) — C$50 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…Hamilton-Wentworth Re…United Way Golden Hor…My Tribute Gift Found…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…Canadahelps Canadon
Hamilton Community FoundationON8.8× affinity5 shared granteesties to 8 of 8Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trustpr · United Way Golden Horseshoe · My Tribute Gift Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne · Canadahelps Canadon

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 charitable organization under christianity.

Source object 107689598:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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