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Hamilton, ON · Private foundation

Sam and Roma Mercanti Foundation

The general purpose of the foundation is to receive and maintain funds to be applied for the benefit of other charitable organizations in canada.

C$259k
Granted FY2024still arriving
39
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$53k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 39 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k30 grants · C$108k
  • C$10k–50k8 grants · C$98k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$53k
C$5,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$7.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONC$53,000
CANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCEMENTS IN MENTAL HEALTHC$25,000
DR. BOB KEMP HOSPICE FOUNDATIONC$12,500
YMCAC$10,000
PATH EMPLOYMENT SERVICESC$10,000
CHARITY OF HOPEC$10,000
CITYKIDZC$10,000
HALTON WOMEN'S PLACEC$10,000
LIBERTY FOR YOUTHC$10,000
Individual grant recipientC$9,450
EVA ROTHWELL CENTREC$7,500
SUICIDE PREVENTION COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF HAMILTONC$6,000
HELPING HANDSC$6,000
HAMILTON BULLDOGS FOUNDATION INC.C$5,000
FOOD4KIDSC$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.

92%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$682k · 29 repeat orgsC$62k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +14% since the first grant, against -2% for the ones you funded once.

29 repeat relationships — 27 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 12 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

29
6

Total granted

C$682k
C$25k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+14%
-2%

Still filing today

100%
83%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 86% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$37k went to new ones.

50%100%’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

  • SJ
    ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$208k · revenue +3%
  • LF
    LIBERTY FOR YOUTH
    4× · 2021–2024 · C$35k · revenue +108%
  • CO
    CHARITY OF HOPE
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$30k · revenue +142%

Funded once

  • PR
    PHEONIX RISING CENTRE
    one grant, 2023 · C$10k · revenue -63%
  • HB
    HAMILTON BULLDOGS FOUNDATION INC.
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k
  • CF
    CYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA
    one grant, 2023 · C$3k · revenue +1%

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
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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2
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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3
Hamilton Urban Core Community Health Centre

We provide primary health care and health promotion programs. we provide counselling education and outreach. we provide support groups for isolated individuals. we provide emergency food access. we hold life skills and personal development…

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4
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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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 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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7
St Matthew's House

St. Matthew's House is a multiservice innovative and forward-thinking non-profit agency located in Hamilton Ontario Canada. A frontline organization committed to lifting up the most vulnerable people among us - providing essential support…

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8
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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9
Mission Services of Hamilton Inc.

Women’s and men’s services – providing safety shelter meals guidance and transitional help for women and men who are abused homeless or subject to domestic violence addictions services – programs for substance abuse recovery counseling…

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10
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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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
Sexual Assault Centre (Hamilton and Area)

1. Crisis Support Program provides 24 hour confidential anonymous telephone support for all genders who have experienced sexual violence and Support for friends families neighbours co-workers and classmates of survivors as well as…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Good Shepherd Centre Hamilton and the most unlike its peers is Bulldogs Foundation Inc.. 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

45 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. 45 of the 47 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
45/45
Grantees still filing
27/45
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 budgetST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$208,000 over 4y, 0.4% of budgetCANADIAN INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCEMENTS IN MENTAL HEALTH — C$35,000 over 3y, 1.4% of budgetLIBERTY FOR YOUTH — C$35,000 over 4y, 1.3% of budgetEVA ROTHWELL CENTRE — C$32,500 over 2y, 1.9% of budgetCHARITY OF HOPE — C$30,000 over 3y, 9.5% of budgetCHURCH OF THE REDEEMER — C$30,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetHALTON WOMEN'S PLACE — C$30,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetBOB KEMP HOSPICE FOUNDATION — C$28,500 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetCITYKIDZ — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.4% of budgetYWCA — C$25,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetCHURCH OF THE HOLY TRINITY — C$18,950 over 2y, 3.0% of budgetSUICIDE PREVENTION COMMUNITY COUNCIL OF HAMILTON — C$18,500 over 4y, 14% of budgetPATH EMPLOYMENT SERVICES — C$15,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetYMCA — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetLIVING ROCK — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetTORONTO METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY — C$15,000 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHELPING HANDS — C$13,000 over 3y, 1.9% of budgetPRINCESS MARGARET FOUNDATION — C$12,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANCER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN MENTAL HEALTH ASSOCIATION — C$11,500 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetHAMILTON BULLDOGS FOUNDATION INC. — C$10,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetPHEONIX RISING CENTRE — C$10,000 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetHAMILTON FOOD SHARE — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetHILLFIELD STRATHALLAN COLLEGE — C$7,500 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON CHALLENGER BASEBALL ASSOCIATION — C$7,500 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE OF HAMILTON-WENTWORTH — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetFELLOWSHIP INTERNATIONAL — C$6,200 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetREGNUM CHRISTI LEADERSHIP INSTITUTE INC — C$6,000 over 3y, 75% of budgetFOOD4KIDS — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetMCMASTER LIASON SCHOLARSHIP — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDUNDAS VALLEY SCHOOL OF ARTS — C$4,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCYSTIC FIBROSIS CANADA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON/BURLINGTON SPCA — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCROSSROADS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST.PATRICK CHURCH — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetHAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCOMFORT BEARS — C$2,500 over 1y, 1.6% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetEPILEPSY SCO — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetDE MAZENOD DOOR OUTREACH — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCHRISTIAN RETREAT GOSPEL CRUSADE OF CANADA — C$2,400 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetMEN'S STREET MINISTRY — C$1,300 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetHAMILTON-WENTWORTH CATHOLIC DISTRICT SCHOOL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetTHE CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY ONTARIO CANADA — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCENTRE FOR DIVERSE LEARNERS — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% 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…The Chml Children's F…United Way Golden Hor…Burlington Community …Charity of HopeBulldogs Foundation I…The Charitable Corpor…The Schwenger Family …Sydney Wood Purple Bu…Mohawk College of App…Horizon Employees' Ch…
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 · Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trustpr · The Chml Children's Fund · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Burlington Community Foundation · Charity of Hope · Bulldogs Foundation Inc. · The Charitable Corporation of The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM · The Schwenger Family Foundation · Sydney Wood Purple Butterfly of Hope Foundation · Mohawk College of Applied Arts & Technology · Horizon Employees' Charity Fund

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 47 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 relieving poverty.

Source object 729783274:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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