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Oakville, ON · Public foundation

Oakville Community Foundation

For 30 years the Foundation has been building Community through Philanthropy As a 360-degree granting organization we grant to local and national organizations to support the entire range of charitable activities.

C$4.9M
Granted FY2024still arriving
289
Grants FY2024still arriving
7
Regions reached
C$516k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02The needRead
03Your edgeRead
04Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 289 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k181 grants · C$454k
  • C$10k–50k87 grants · C$1.9M
  • C$50k–250k19 grants · C$1.8M
  • C$250k+2 grants · C$766k
C$5,000
Median grant
7
Regions reached
C$140M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Oakville Hospital FoundationC$516,279
June and Ian Cockwell Private FoundationC$250,000
Legion of Christ Canada IncC$200,000
Acclaim HealthC$169,469
Breakthrough T1D CanadaC$155,860
Live DifferentC$134,000
United Way Halton & HamiltonC$117,172
London School of Economics & Political ScienceC$105,500
Kerr Street MissionC$93,891
Youth Unlimited GTAC$90,000
Wellspring Birmingham Gilgan HouseC$85,000
ArtHouse for Children and YouthC$83,148
Fare Share Food BankC$76,326
Home Suite HopeC$72,316
Halton Women's PlaceC$67,234
02The need
02

Do your dollars go where the need is?

Where your grant dollars land — at home and around the world.

Which regions your grants reach

Ontario
C$45M
British Columbia
C$571k
Manitoba
C$395k
Quebec
C$273k
Alberta
C$59k
Nova Scotia
C$6k
Prince Edward Island
C$4k
New Brunswick
C$2k

Grants placed by each grantee’s location, read from the T3010 filings.

03Your 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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$45M · 305 repeat orgsC$2.1M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +34% since the first grant, against +21% for the ones you funded once.

305 repeat relationships — 215 still active in FY2024, 90 since wound down; 57 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

305
288

Total granted

C$45M
C$1.7M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+34%
+21%

Still filing today

94%
39%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 92% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$383k 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

  • JA
    June and Ian Cockwell Foundation
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$14M · revenue +60% · 84% of their budget
  • OH
    OAKVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$4.5M · revenue +38%
  • SC
    Sheridan College
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$1.4M · revenue +55%

Funded once

  • SC
    Small Change Fundgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$69k · revenue +269%
  • BB
    Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton
    one grant, 2017 · C$58k
  • FA
    Faith and the Common Good-Centre for Social Innovation
    one grant, 2018 · C$51k · revenue +10%

Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.

04Your 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
Mental Health Research Canada/Recherche En Sante Mentale Canada

Mental Health Research Canada (MHRC) is a national charitable organization that is dedicated to improving the lives of all Canadians by advancing mental health knowledge. Our vision is to create a Canada with better mental health for all…

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2
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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3
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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4
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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5
Toronto Foundation

The purpose of toronto foundation is to create a more fair and justice society where everyone can thrive by mobilizing those with resources and the will to partner with others. the foundation publishes research including the toronto's…

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6
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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7
University Health Network / RÉSeau Universitaire De SantÉ

University health network/réseau universitaire de santé ('uhn'0 is canada's largest healthcare reaserach organization. our primary value is the needs of patients come first. uhn operates four hospitals. these hospitals are separately…

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8
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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9
Sunnybrook Research Institute

Sunnybrook Research Institute (SRI) is the research arm of Sunnybrook Health Sciences Center (SHSC) a teaching hospital fully affiliated with the University of Toronto. The vision of SRI is to invent the future of health care. Our main…

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10
United Way of Oakville

Plan & conduct an annual fundraising campaign in the town of Oakville. Distribute funds raised to participating registered charities in accordance with the financial needs of these organizations. Funds are invested in 33 agencies & 54…

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11
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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12
Homewood Research Institute

Homewood research institute (hri) is an independent national charity dedicated to research that transforms mental health and substance use treatment in canada and around the world. we work with some of north america's most influential…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The May Court Club of Oakville and the most unlike its peers is Algoma University UniversitÉ Algoma. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.

03the grantee network

462 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. 462 of the 650 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.

19
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
93
Early backer (in before they grew)
455/462
Grantees still filing
316/462
Grew since you first funded

Showing your 200 largest grantees by grant value.

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 budgetJune and Ian Cockwell Foundation — C$14,132,709 over 6y, 84% of budgetOAKVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$4,501,644 over 8y, 12% of budgetSheridan College — C$1,377,628 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetJuvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada - National — C$1,269,800 over 8y, 2.0% of budgetAcclaim Health — C$1,244,876 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetKerr Street Mission — C$1,052,925 over 8y, 17% of budgetWELLSPRING CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION — C$1,020,803 over 8y, 6.6% of budgetUnited Way Halton & Hamilton — C$677,430 over 8y, 0.8% of budgetHOME SUITE HOPE SHARED LIVING CORP — C$629,738 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetCommunity Living Oakville — C$438,734 over 8y, 1.0% of budgetCENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH (CAMH) FOUNDATION — C$403,100 over 8y, 0.3% of budgetGifts Fund Canada — C$400,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetFood For Life Canada — C$380,390 over 8y, 5.1% of budgetArtHouse for Children and Youth — C$356,702 over 8y, 16% of budgetSt. Luke's Anglican Church — C$353,689 over 8y, 36% of budgetOakville Public Library — C$348,571 over 8y, 1.1% of budgetThe Lighthouse Program for Grieving Children — C$315,570 over 8y, 7.5% of budgetIAN ANDERSON HOUSE FOUNDATION — C$283,502 over 8y, 15% of budgetIndwell Community Homes — C$279,250 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetYMCA of Oakville — C$277,228 over 8y, 0.5% of budgetBrampton and Area Community Foundation — C$276,982 over 4y, 8.3% of budgetSalvation Army Lighthouse Shelter — C$270,835 over 7y, 15% of budgetOakville Meals on Wheels — C$265,770 over 8y, 27% of budgetHalton Women's Place — C$264,404 over 8y, 1.9% of budgetCanadian Caribbean Association of Halton — C$260,995 over 6y, 45% of budgetFare Share Food Bank (Oakville) Inc — C$257,312 over 8y, 6.0% of budgetLegion of Christ Canada Inc — C$250,000 over 2y, 10% of budgetLIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA - DOG GUIDES — C$249,623 over 4y, 1.2% of budgetDOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA — C$247,910 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetChildren's Aid Foundation of Halton — C$243,708 over 8y, 11% of budgetErinoakKids Centre for Treatment and Development — C$238,562 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetLions Foundation of Canada - Dog Guides — C$236,696 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetMcGill University — C$226,970 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWilling Hearts International Society - Canada — C$222,348 over 8y, 56% of budgetAMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (CANADA) - NATIONAL OFFICE — C$217,220 over 8y, 51% of budgetS.H.A.R.E. AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION — C$216,660 over 8y, 4.7% of budgetCANADIAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE — C$216,660 over 8y, 52% of budgetBrant Community Foundation — C$212,815 over 4y, 2.9% of budgetBig Brothers Big Sisters of Halton and Hamilton — C$208,565 over 7y, 3.5% of budgetBurlington Foundation — C$202,795 over 5y, 4.4% of budgetTrinity College School — C$200,000 over 2y, 4.5% of budgetThe Community Foundation of Mississauga — C$197,666 over 4y, 1.9% of budgetWestern University — C$182,000 over 8y, 0.0% of budgetShifra Homes — C$180,108 over 8y, 7.0% of budgetSexual Assault & Violence Intervention Services (SAVIS) of — C$172,748 over 8y, 3.6% of budgetFood4Kids Halton — C$166,918 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetNiagara Community Foundation — C$166,155 over 3y, 1.2% of budgetHIPPY Halton — C$160,720 over 8y, 16% 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 June and Ian Cockwell Foundation ↗
  • Who funds OAKVILLE HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Sheridan College ↗
  • Who funds Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation Canada - National ↗
  • Who funds Acclaim Health ↗
  • Who funds Kerr Street Mission ↗
  • Who funds WELLSPRING CANCER SUPPORT FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds United Way Halton & Hamilton ↗
  • Who funds HOME SUITE HOPE SHARED LIVING CORP ↗
  • Who funds Community Living Oakville ↗
  • Who funds CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH (CAMH) FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Gifts Fund Canada ↗
  • Who funds Food For Life Canada ↗
  • Who funds ArtHouse for Children and Youth ↗
  • Who funds St. Luke's Anglican Church ↗
  • Who funds Oakville Public Library ↗
  • Who funds The Lighthouse Program for Grieving Children ↗
  • Who funds IAN ANDERSON HOUSE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds Indwell Community Homes ↗
  • Who funds YMCA of Oakville ↗
  • Who funds Brampton and Area Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Salvation Army Lighthouse Shelter ↗
  • Who funds Oakville Meals on Wheels ↗
  • Who funds Halton Women's Place ↗
  • Who funds Canadian Caribbean Association of Halton ↗
  • Who funds Fare Share Food Bank (Oakville) Inc ↗
  • Who funds Legion of Christ Canada Inc ↗
  • Who funds LIONS FOUNDATION OF CANADA - DOG GUIDES ↗
  • Who funds DOCTORS WITHOUT BORDERS CANADA ↗
  • Who funds Children's Aid Foundation of Halton ↗
  • Who funds ErinoakKids Centre for Treatment and Development ↗
  • Who funds Lions Foundation of Canada - Dog Guides ↗
  • Who funds McGill University ↗
  • Who funds Willing Hearts International Society - Canada ↗
  • Who funds AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL (CANADA) - NATIONAL OFFICE ↗
  • Who funds S.H.A.R.E. AGRICULTURAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN FRIENDS SERVICE COMMITTEE ↗
  • Who funds Brant Community Foundation ↗
  • Who funds Big Brothers Big Sisters of Halton and Hamilton ↗
  • Who funds Burlington Foundation ↗

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.

Burlington Community …United Way of OakvilleThe May Court Club of…Hamilton Community Fo…Rotary Club of Oakvil…The Rotary Club of Bu…JTC Heersink Foundati…Rco Charitable FundUnited Way Golden Hor…June and Ian Cockwell…The United Way of Mil…Marian Council 3881 C…
Burlington Community FoundationON38.5× affinity54 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Burlington Community Foundation · United Way of Oakville · The May Court Club of Oakville · Hamilton Community Foundation · Rotary Club of Oakville Trafalgar Foundation Inc · The Rotary Club of Burlington Central Trust Fund · JTC Heersink Foundation · Rco Charitable Fund · United Way Golden Horseshoe · June and Ian Cockwell Private Foundation · The United Way of Milton · Marian Council 3881 Charitable Trust

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 650 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 891934374:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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