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Hamilton, ON · Private foundation

Sydney Wood Purple Butterfly of Hope Foundation

Annual event to raise funds to donate to local charities actively solicits and accepts donations throughout the year ongoing gifts to various local charities

C$26k
Granted FY2024still arriving
10
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$5k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 10 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,200
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$7k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
Ronald McDonald House CharitiesC$5,000
Comfort BearsC$5,000
Food4Kids HamiltonC$5,000
Hamilton Health Sciences FoundationC$5,000
The Hamilton Dream CenterC$1,200
The Angel Project HamiltonC$1,000
Living Rock MinistriesC$1,000
Essential Aid and Family Services of Ontario Inc.C$1,000
Eva Rothwell CentreC$1,000
Interval House of HamiltonC$1,000
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.

90%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$217k · 11 repeat orgsC$24k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +70% since the first grant, against +55% for the ones you funded once.

11 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 4 since wound down; 3 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

11
9

Total granted

C$217k
C$16k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+70%
+55%

Still filing today

100%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 73% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$7k 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

  • BC
    B.R.A.I.N. CHILD MCMASTER CHILDREN'S HOSPISTAL
    6× · 2017–2024 · C$43k · revenue +69%
  • RM
    RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES HAMILTON
    8× · 2017–2024 · C$41k · revenue +154%
  • F
    FOOD4KIDS
    5× · 2018–2023 · C$32k · revenue +123%

Funded once

  • FF
    FAB FOUNDATIONgraduated
    one grant, 2021 · C$5k · revenue +55%
  • CK
    CITY KIDZ
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k · revenue +4%
  • WL
    WILFRED LAURIER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k · revenue +21%

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
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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2
FOOD4KIDS Toronto

Providing healthy food packages to children aged 4 to 13 in the Toronto region who face food insecurity on weekends and during summer months. The program targets participants with limited or no access to food at home ensuring they receive…

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3
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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4
FOOD4KIDS Halton

The organization provides healthy food to elementary school students from at-risk low-income or disadvantaged homes with limited or no food during weekend periods.

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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
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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7
Hamilton Jewish Family Services

Hamilton jewish family services provides a full range of social services to meet the demands of the changing needs of our local jewish community in hamilton. this includes mental health counselling financial assistance and food bank.

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8
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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9
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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10
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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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Hamilton Dream Center and the most unlike its peers is Wilfrid Laurier University. 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

23 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.

1
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
9
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
19/23
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 budgetB.R.A.I.N. CHILD MCMASTER CHILDREN'S HOSPISTAL — C$43,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE CHARITIES HAMILTON — C$40,700 over 8y, 0.2% of budgetFOOD4KIDS — C$31,500 over 5y, 1.5% of budgetFOOD 4 KIDS — C$30,000 over 7y, 3.1% of budgetTHE ANGEL PROJECT — C$20,000 over 5y, 9.6% of budgetCOMFORT BEARS INC — C$18,000 over 4y, 29% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE — C$8,500 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetEVA ROTHWELL CENTRE — C$7,500 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetPEOPLES COMMUNITY SPORTS — C$7,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD HAMILTON — C$5,300 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFAB FOUNDATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 4.3% of budgetESSENTIAL AID AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ONTARIO — C$5,000 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetFood4Kids Hamilton — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCITY KIDZ — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWILFRED LAURIER UNIVERSITY — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetST MATTHEWS HOUSE — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetMISSION SERVICES — C$1,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS — C$1,475 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetThe Hamilton Dream Center — C$1,200 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetHAMILTON FOOD SHARE — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetLiving Rock Ministries — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA HAMILTON BURLINGTON — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBRAIN TUMOUR FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$500 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…The Chml Children's F…United Way Golden Hor…Hamilton-Wentworth Re…Sam and Roma Mercanti…Charity of HopeThe Charitable Corpor…The John & Ellie Voor…The Kehila Jewish Day…Dofasco Employee Dona…Horizon Employees' Ch…Greater Hamilton Food…
Hamilton Community FoundationON17.2× affinity14 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · The Chml Children's Fund · United Way Golden Horseshoe · Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trustpr · Sam and Roma Mercanti Foundation · Charity of Hope · The Charitable Corporation of The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM · The John & Ellie Voortman Charitable Foundation · The Kehila Jewish Day School · Dofasco Employee Donations Fund · Horizon Employees' Charity Fund · Greater Hamilton Food Share

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 23 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 809360035:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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