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Waterdown, ON · Public foundation

Rotary Club of Waterdown Charitable Trust

Low income housing support polio vaccination support literacy food bank student bursaries meals for students

C$8k
Granted FY2023
13
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 13 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$500
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$192k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
FLAMBOROUGH CONNECTSC$2,200
LYNWOOD CHARLTON CENTREC$1,000
CANADIAN-UKRAINE FOUNDATIONC$1,000
MEN'S STREET MINISTRYC$750
ST. JAMES UNITED CHURCHC$600
CHILDREN'S INTERNATIONAL LEARNING CENTREC$500
MISSION GOC$500
ST.JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONC$500
YOUTH UNLIMITEDC$500
ALZHEIMER SOCIETYC$100
HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCESC$100
WORLD VISIONC$100
CANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION-HAMILTON BRANCHC$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.

38%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$24k · 5 repeat orgsC$38k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +60% since the first grant, against +17% for the ones you funded once.

5 repeat relationships — 2 still active in FY2023, 3 since wound down; 10 grantees were first funded in FY2023 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

5
18

Total granted

C$24k
C$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+60%
+17%

Still filing today

100%
78%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 42% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$5k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22’23
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

  • YO
    YMCA OF HAMILTON/BURLINGTON/BRANTFORD
    2× · 2020–2021 · C$5k · revenue +87%
  • FC
    FLAMBOROUGH CONNECTS
    2× · 2022–2023 · C$4k · revenue +4%
  • CF
    CANADIAN-UKRAINE FOUNDATION
    2× · 2018–2023 · C$2k · revenue +183%

Funded once

  • HF
    Habitat for Humanitygraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$10k · revenue +99%
  • F4
    FOOD 4 KIDS HAMILTON
    one grant, 2022 · C$10k · revenue +5%
  • RC
    RELLOBOTH CANADIAN REFORMED CHURCH
    one grant, 2018 · C$3k · revenue -10%

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 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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4
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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5
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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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
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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8
Heart and Stroke Foundation of Ontario

1. funds researchers working in universities hospitals and research institutes across ontario. 2. provides the public with health information and education programs on preventing and managing heart disease and stroke. 3. provides…

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9
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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10
Hamilton District Society for Disabled Children

Provides financial support to various organizations in the community that provide aid and assistance to disabled children in the hamilton and halton area. this includes support to specfic projects administered by hamilton health sciences…

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11
Neighbour to Neighbour Centre (Hamilton)

Neighbour to neighbour centre (hamilton) runs a number of programs with the purpose to alleviate and prevent poverty by supporting neighbours at risk: [i] - the hamilton community food centre (hcfc) is a welcoming and safe community space…

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12
Human Concern International (Hci)

Health Programs: Deliver medical care and health education to underserved communities. Education Programs: Enhance literacy and education through school construction scholarships teachers training and educational materials. Emergency…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ymca of Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford and the most unlike its peers is Hamilton-Wentworth 4-H Association. 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

29 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. 29 of the 33 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)
7
Early backer (in before they grew)
29/29
Grantees still filing
21/29
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 budgetEL HOGAN PROJECTS — C$11,071 over 2y, 4.0% of budgetHabitat for Humanity — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetFOOD 4 KIDS HAMILTON — C$10,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetYMCA OF HAMILTON/BURLINGTON/BRANTFORD — C$4,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetFLAMBOROUGH CONNECTS — C$4,400 over 2y, 1.4% of budgetRELLOBOTH CANADIAN REFORMED CHURCH — C$3,000 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetCANADIAN-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$2,050 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON WENTWORTH DISTRICT SCHOOL BOARD FOUNDATION — C$1,662 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetMedical Ministry International Canada — C$1,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetINTERWAL HOUSE OF HAMILTON — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetLYNWOOD CHARLTON CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADA-UKRAINE FOUNDATION — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMEN'S STREET MINISTRY — C$750 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPECIAL OLYMPICS ONTARIO — C$600 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST. JAMES UNITED CHURCH — C$600 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetYOUTH UNLIMITED — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCHILDREN'S INTERNATIONAL LEARNING CENTRE — C$500 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetBAY AREA SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR — C$500 over 1y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION GO — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST.JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN RED CROSS — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMPASS POINT BIBLE CHURCH — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON WENTWORTH 4H ASSOCIATION — C$250 over 1y, 0.8% of budgetHEART AND STROKE FOUNDATION — C$200 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON & HALTON ALZHEIMER FOUNDATION — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD VISION — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY — C$100 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetGRACE ANGLICAN CHURCH — C$100 over 1y, 0.1% 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…The Charitable Trust …The Chml Children's F…Burlington Community …Dofasco Employee Dona…Sam and Roma Mercanti…Patrick J McNally Cha…The Charitable Corpor…The John & Ellie Voor…Ontario Realtors Care…Charities Aid Foundat…
Hamilton Community FoundationON14.1× affinity11 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 · The Charitable Trust of Rotary Club of Flamborough A.M. · The Chml Children's Fund · Burlington Community Foundation · Dofasco Employee Donations Fund · Sam and Roma Mercanti Foundation · Patrick J McNally Charitable Foundation · The Charitable Corporation of The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM · The John & Ellie Voortman Charitable Foundation · Ontario Realtors Care Foundation · Charities Aid Foundation Canada

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 33 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 2023-06-30, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2023, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 892467564:2023-06-30 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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