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Freelton, ON · Private foundation

Patrick J McNally Charitable Foundation

Donations to various organizations to help achieve their goal and be in line with the foundation's objectives of selecting qualified donees to give donation(s) to.

C$3.4M
Granted FY2024still arriving
18
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$750k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • C$10k–50k4 grants · C$90k
  • C$50k–250k8 grants · C$753k
  • C$250k+6 grants · C$2.6M
C$100,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$63M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENSC$750,000
SOICAL PLANNING AND RESEARCH COUNCIL OF HAMILTONC$500,000
BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCYC$500,000
HAMILTON CHILDREN'S CHOIRC$300,000
CITY OF HAMILTONC$300,000
CITY OF HAMILTONC$250,000
THE MARK PREECE FAMILY HOUSEC$153,000
HAMILTON NATURALISTS' CLUBC$150,000
KEMP CARE NETWORKC$100,000
HAMILTON YMCAC$100,000
GREATER HAMILTON FOOD SHAREC$100,000
ST. JOSEPHS HEALTHCAREC$50,000
GREATER HAMILTON FOOD SHAREC$50,000
CANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATIONC$50,000
GRAND RIVER CONSERVATION FOUNDATIONC$40,000
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.

85%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$12M · 18 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 +65% since the first grant, against +14% for the ones you funded once.

18 repeat relationships — 8 still active in FY2024, 10 since wound down; 8 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

18
15

Total granted

C$12M
C$1.0M

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+65%
+14%

Still filing today

89%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 68% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$1.1M 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

  • BT
    BRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.8M · revenue +283%
  • RB
    ROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$2.2M · revenue +10%
  • GH
    GREATER HAMILTON FOOD SHARE
    4× · 2020–2024 · C$350k · revenue +73%

Funded once

  • WC
    WESTDALE CINEMA GROUP
    one grant, 2018 · C$350k · revenue -8% · 28% of their budget
  • RO
    REACH OUT CENTRE FOR KIDS
    one grant, 2020 · C$150k · revenue -61%
  • GV
    GREATER VICTORIA SCHOOL DISTRICT
    one grant, 2022 · C$125k · revenue +17%

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.

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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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2
The Hamilton Dream Center

We operate a food and clothing bank serving the needy in the area east of downtown hamilton. we provide life skills training and counselling to the needy. we provide for several school lunch programs and share our excess food and clothing…

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3
Hamilton Region Conservation Authority

Recreational trails and activities such as camping and boating protecting people and property from flooding and erosion acquire lands for greenspace operate outdoor education programs

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4
Friends of the Hamilton Public Library

Advocate for strong public library system Sponsorship of special programs to enrich library services

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5
Hamilton Child and Family Supports

Hamilton Child and Family Supports in partnership with families and our community is committed to the safety protection and well-being of children and the strengthening of families while valuing diversity and promoting equity.

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6
Hamilton Food for Thought

1. provide funding to help other foundations/organizations that support education 2. directly support others in need of assistance

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7
Hamilton Community Support Association
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8
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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9
Hamilton Habitat for Humanity

Independent nonprofit christian housing program dedicated to the elimination of poverty housing by building homes in partnership with families in need. operating a restore to fundraise and divert used building materials from landfills.

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10
Hamilton Sustainable Victory Gardens Inc.

Develop and grow sustainable gardens throughout the city of hamilton provide local organic fresh produce to meal programs and food banks encourage volunteers and promote the reduction of reliance on fossil fuels

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11
Hamilton Festival Theatre Company

The hamilton festival theatre company (hftco) is committed to training platform and amplifying hamilton theatre artists and storytellers. the hamilton festival theatre company builds a community for artists and cultivates work that is…

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12
Citizen Action Group Hamilton

Citizen action group carries out work which supports persons experiencing difficulties finding and maintaining employment

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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 Theatre Aquarius Incorporated. 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

39 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. 39 of the 41 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.

5
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
39/39
Grantees still filing
23/39
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 budgetBRUCE TRAIL CONSERVANCY — C$2,800,000 over 8y, 4.5% of budgetROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS — C$2,177,138 over 7y, 3.6% of budgetSOICAL PLANNING AND RESEARCH COUNCIL OF HAMILTON — C$500,000 over 1y, 17% of budgetWESTDALE CINEMA GROUP — C$350,000 over 1y, 28% of budgetGREATER HAMILTON FOOD SHARE — C$350,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetHAMILTON CHILDREN'S CHOIR — C$305,000 over 2y, 43% of budgetTHE MARK PREECE FAMILY HOUSE — C$153,000 over 1y, 15% of budgetREACH OUT CENTRE FOR KIDS — C$150,000 over 1y, 19% of budgetHAMILTON NATURALISTS' CLUB — C$150,000 over 1y, 16% of budgetGREATER VICTORIA SCHOOL DISTRICT — C$125,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetCOMPASSION SOCIETY OF HALTON — C$108,000 over 4y, 13% of budgetKEMP CARE NETWORK — C$100,000 over 1y, 2.3% of budgetHAMILTON YMCA — C$100,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetST. JOSEPHS HEALTHCARE — C$94,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTELLING TALES — C$80,000 over 3y, 15% of budgetMISSIONS SERVICES OF HAMILTON INC. — C$72,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetBAY AREA RESTORATION COUNCIL — C$71,133 over 1y, 43% of budgetHAMILTON COMMUNITY FOUNDATION — C$57,544 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetYWCA HAMILTON — C$56,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetCANADIAN FOUNDATION FOR ECONOMIC EDUCATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 3.4% of budgetCHILDREN'S INTERNATIONAL LEARNING CENTRE — C$50,000 over 3y, 60% of budgetFOOD4KIDS HAMILTON HALTON NIAGARA — C$48,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetWATERDOWN ROTARY CLUB — C$45,990 over 2y, 31% of budgetFLAMBOROUGH FOOD BANK — C$43,000 over 3y, 6.5% of budgetBABY DEPOT — C$40,000 over 4y, 12% of budgetBURLINGTON FOOD BANK — C$38,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetNATIVE WOMENS CENTRE — C$30,000 over 1y, 1.1% of budgetFOOD4KIDS HALTON — C$28,000 over 2y, 2.0% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHRESHOLD SCHOOL OF BUILDING — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetMUSCULAR DYSTROPHY CANADA — C$20,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTHEATRE AQUARIUS — C$19,875 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetNEIGHBOUR TO NEIGHBOUR — C$18,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFLAMBOROUGH CONNECTS — C$10,000 over 1y, 5.4% of budgetBASKET BRIGADE CHARITY — C$10,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHEALTHY YOUTH NETWORK — C$10,000 over 1y, 6.6% 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…United Way Golden Hor…Hamilton-Wentworth Re…The Charitable Corpor…Burlington Community …The Chml Children's F…Congregation of the S…Canada GivesRotary Club of Burlin…The Rotary Club of Bu…Oakville Community Fo…Art Gallery of Hamilt…
Hamilton Community FoundationON24.7× affinity24 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trustpr · The Charitable Corporation of The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM · Burlington Community Foundation · The Chml Children's Fund · Congregation of the Sisters of St. Joseph in Canada · Canada Gives · Rotary Club of Burlington North Foundation Inc. · The Rotary Club of Burlington Central Trust Fund · Oakville Community Foundation · Art Gallery of Hamilton

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 41 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 841799984:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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