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Hamilton, ON · Charitable organization

The Chml Children's Fund

THE CHML CHILDREN'S FUND donate to programs that benefit children.

C$81k
Granted FY2023
24
Grants FY2023
1
Regions reached
C$6k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2023 · 24 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$3,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$113k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CHILDREN'S AID SOCIETY OF HAMILTONC$5,500
ESSENTIAL AID AND FAMILY SERVICES OF ONTARIO INC.C$5,235
CATHOLIC YOUTH ORGANZATIONC$5,000
GOOD SHEPHERDC$5,000
RONALD MCDONALD HOUSE SOUTH CENTRAL ONTC$5,000
MCMASTER CHILDREN'S HOSPITALC$5,000
CITY KIDZ MINISTRYC$4,000
HAMILTON FOOD SHAREC$3,500
HALTON CATHOLIC CHILDRENS FOUNDATIONC$3,000
CHILDREN'S AID FOUNDATION OF HALTONC$3,000
CULTURE FOR KIDS IN THE ARTSC$3,000
FIT ACTIVE BEAUTIFUL FOUNDATIONC$3,000
TELLING TALES FESTIVALC$3,000
MISSION SERVCESC$3,000
LIVING ROCK MINISTRIESC$3,000
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.

96%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$903k · 57 repeat orgsC$34k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +58% since the first grant, against +36% for the ones you funded once.

57 repeat relationships — 24 still active in FY2023, 33 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

57
13

Total granted

C$903k
C$34k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+58%
+36%

Still filing today

100%
54%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2023, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’22’23
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

  • MS
    MISSION SERVICES
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$52k · revenue +139%
  • SA
    SALVATION ARMY
    3× · 2017–2019 · C$46k · revenue +962%
  • CA
    CHILDREN'S AID HAMILTON
    6× · 2017–2023 · C$36k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • DV
    DUNDAS VALLEY SCHOOL OF ART
    one grant, 2019 · C$5k
  • RC
    ROTRAY CLUB OF HAMILTON
    one grant, 2017 · C$4k
  • CF
    CULTURE FOR KIDS IN THE ARTS
    one grant, 2022 · C$4k

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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Ay Alternatives for Youth Hamilton

Confidential counselling for youth between the ages of 13 & 25 and families experiencing difficulties related to the misuse of tobacco alcohol and other drugs. group counselling programs for children of substance abusing parents; alcohol…

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2
Community Living Hamilton

Community Living Hamilton is an organization providing services and supports to individuals with an intellectual disability and their families. Services include: Community Participation Leisure and Recreation Respite Employment Residential…

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3
Woodview Mental Health and Autism Services

Woodview mental health and autism services is an accredited children's mental health agency. services are provided to children youth and families facing mental health challenges and to individuals of all ages diagnosed with autism spectrum…

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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 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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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
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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8
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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9
Umbrella Family and Child Centres of Hamilton

Umbrella family and child centres of hamilton is a non-profit organization offering high-quality child care to almost 2 000 children each day ranging in age from infants to 12 years. currently we operate 27 day care centres in…

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10
Hamilton Community Support Association
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11
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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12
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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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Neighbour to Neighbour Centre (Hamilton) and the most unlike its peers is Culture for Kids in the Arts. 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

64 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. 64 of the 70 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.

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Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
26
Early backer (in before they grew)
64/64
Grantees still filing
53/64
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 budgetMISSION SERVICES — C$52,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetSALVATION ARMY — C$45,500 over 3y, 11% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID HAMILTON — C$35,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetWESLEY URBAN MINISTRIES — C$35,000 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetMCMASTER CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL — C$35,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetYMCA OF HAMILTON/BURLINGTON/BRANTFORD — C$34,000 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetESSENTIAL AID AND FAMILY SERVICES — C$30,735 over 6y, 4.2% of budgetRONALD MCDONALD HOUSE SOUTH CENTRAL ONT — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetCATHOLIC YOUTH ORGANZATION — C$28,000 over 6y, 0.2% of budgetWESLEY URBAN MINISTRIES — C$26,800 over 3y, 0.1% of budgetEVA ROTHWELL CENTRE — C$25,500 over 6y, 1.5% of budgetLIVING ROCK MINISTRIES — C$25,000 over 6y, 0.3% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetFOOD 4 KIDS — C$24,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCITY KIDS MINISTRY — C$22,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetNEIGHBOUR TO NEIGHBOUR CENTRE — C$22,000 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetROTARY CLUB OF HAMILTON — C$22,000 over 5y, 4.2% of budgetFIT ACTIVE BEAUTIFUL FOUNDATION — C$21,500 over 6y, 4.5% of budgetCHILDREN'S AID HALTON — C$19,000 over 6y, 0.7% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE HAMILTON — C$18,000 over 4y, 0.3% of budgetCATHOLIC CHILDREN'S AID HAMILTON — C$16,500 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetHAMILTON AND DITRICT EXTEND A FAMILY — C$16,500 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetDELTA SECONDARY SCHOOL — C$16,400 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetCULTURE FOR KIDS IN THE ARTS — C$16,000 over 4y, 1.7% of budgetTELLING TALES — C$15,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetHAMILTON FOOD SHARE — C$14,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetGREEN VENTURE — C$13,500 over 3y, 21% of budgetCATHOLIC FAMILY SERVICES HAMILTON — C$13,500 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetLIBERTY FOR YOUTH — C$13,500 over 4y, 0.7% of budgetDUNDAS VALLEY SCHOOL OF ART — C$12,000 over 2y, 0.5% of budgetDR BOB KEMP HOSPICE BEREAVEMENT PROGRAM — C$12,000 over 4y, 0.1% of budgetWELCOME INN COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$12,000 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetOPEN DOORS — C$11,500 over 4y, 3.7% of budgetPEOPLES CHURCH HAMILTON — C$11,500 over 3y, 0.0% of budgetTHRIVE CHILD AND YOUTH TRAUMA SERVICES — C$11,440 over 2y, 0.9% of budgetHAMILTON CONSERVATION FOUNDATION — C$10,500 over 3y, 0.8% of budgetHALTON CATHOLIC CHILDRENS FOUNDATION — C$9,000 over 3y, 1.6% of budgetBREAKFAST WITH SANTA — C$8,500 over 3y, 6.0% of budgetANCASTER COMMUNITY SERVICES — C$8,000 over 4y, 5.3% of budgetHAMILTON MUSIC COLLLECTIVE — C$7,500 over 3y, 0.7% of budgetHAMILTON CHILDREN'S CHOIR — C$7,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetAUTISM ONTARIO HW CHAPTER — C$6,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetAFRO CANADIAN CARIBBEAN ASSOCIATION — C$6,000 over 4y, 2.2% of budgetLYNNWOOD CHARLTON CENTRE — C$6,000 over 4y, 9.1% of budgetBOYS AND GIRLS CLUB OF HAMILTON — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetCANCER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM — C$6,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetCATHEDRAL HIGH SCHOOL — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetTELLING TALES FESTIVAL — C$6,000 over 2y, 0.7% 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…Charity of HopeThe Charitable Corpor…Burlington Community …Bulldogs Foundation I…Sam and Roma Mercanti…Greater Hamilton Food…Sydney Wood Purple Bu…Hamilton Golf and Cou…Dofasco Employee Dona…
Hamilton Community FoundationON38.7× affinity45 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 · Charity of Hope · The Charitable Corporation of The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM · Burlington Community Foundation · Bulldogs Foundation Inc. · Sam and Roma Mercanti Foundation · Greater Hamilton Food Share · Sydney Wood Purple Butterfly of Hope Foundation · Hamilton Golf and Country Club Foundation · Dofasco Employee Donations 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 70 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 2023-08-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2023. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 119222578:2023-08-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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