Toronto, ON · Private foundation
The H G Bertram Foundation
The foundation was established by a trust for the purpose of providing financial assistance to charitable organizations incorporated in ontario with specific preferences to those operating in and about dundas ontario.
Where the money goes
Your grants by size, and where they go.
By grant size · FY2024
- Under C$10k1 grant · C$7k
- C$10k–50k6 grants · C$170k
- C$50k–250k4 grants · C$250k
- C$250k+1 grant · C$315k
| Recipient | Amount |
|---|---|
| DUNDAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM | C$315,000 |
| ST. PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH | C$100,000 |
| HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION | C$50,000 |
| HAMILTON PUBLIC LUBRARY BOARD | C$50,000 |
| ST. JOSEPH'S VILLA FOUNDATION | C$50,000 |
| ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON | C$35,000 |
| MCMASTER UNIVERSITY | C$30,334 |
| QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY | C$30,000 |
| MARCH OF DIMES | C$30,000 |
| DUNDAS YOUTH CHAPLAINCY | C$25,000 |
| DUNDAS VALLEY SCHOOL OF ART | C$20,000 |
| CARNEGIE GALLERY | C$7,065 |
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.
12 repeat relationships — 10 still active in FY2024, 2 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).
How the two cohorts compare
Organizations
Total granted
Median revenue growth · since first grant
Still filing today
New vs renewed · share of each year
In FY2024, 87% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$100k went to new ones.
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
- DHDUNDAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM8× · 2017–2024 · C$2.1M · revenue +34% · 79% of their budget
- QUQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · C$165k · revenue +27%
- MUMCMASTER UNIVERSITY8× · 2017–2024 · C$164k · revenue +39%
Funded once
- DGDUNDAS GIRLD SOFTBALL LEAGUEone grant, 2023 · C$20k
- RCROYAL CANADIAN AIR CADETSgraduatedone grant, 2018 · C$12k · revenue ×189
- CGCARNEGIE GALLERYone grant, 2017 · C$6k
Repeat = funded in two or more distinct years; growth and survival are read from each grantee’s own subsequent CRA filings.
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.
An artist run centre that programs and exhibits canadian and international visual arts and some performance art.
Opened in 1914 the royal ontario museum showcases art culture and nature from around the world and across the ages. among the top 10 cultural institutions in north america canada's largest and most comprehensive museum is home to a…
The primary purpose of the Halton District School Board is the advancement of public education. The Halton District School Board provides education to elementary students secondary students and continuing education for adult students…
Education in ontario
Exhibits of work form the Museum's permanent collection of fine arts & artifacts. Curriculum based art education programs school tours & art activities. Summer & March break camps for children. Special interest workshops lectures demos…
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…
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…
Free Local Monthly Public Lectures We plan and present eight lectures from September to April on topics in a range of fields including the physical and health sciences literature (including history non-fiction and fiction writing and…
Advancement of the public's appreciation of the arts by presenting a broad range of arts practices and by providing educational activities
Women's Art of Hamilton coordinated lectures workshops sketch groups and exhibitions to educate and inform our members and the general public about art and women artists in the Hamilton Region.
As a public museum the ago's mission is to bring people together. the ago has a collection of more than 100 000 works which it protects and preserves for current and future generations 4 000 of which are on constant public display.
As a charitable not-for-profit cultural and educational organization we provide Burlington and surrounding areas an equitable and inclusive place to create collaborate and innovate. We deliver thought-provoking exhibitions educational…
For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Dundas Historical Society Museum and the most unlike its peers is Air Cadet League of Canada Ontario Provincial Committee. Resemblance is measured on each organization’s own IRS 990 mission text; it reflects how work is described, not its quality or impact.
14 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. 14 of the 18 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.
Each org by its size and your share of it — top-left is where you’re load-bearing
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.
- Who funds DUNDAS HISTORICAL SOCIETY MUSEUM ↗
- Who funds ST. PAUL'S UNITED CHURCH ↗
- Who funds ST. JOSEPH'S VILLA FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds MCMASTER UNIVERSITY ↗
- Who funds DUNDAS YOUTH CHAPLAINCY ↗
- Who funds ART GALLERY OF HAMILTON ↗
- Who funds MARCH OF DIMES ↗
- Who funds DUNDAS VALLEY SCHOOL OF ART ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON PUBLIC LUBRARY BOARD ↗
- Who funds HAMILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION ↗
- Who funds CARNEGIE GALLERY ↗
- Who funds THE JEWISH SOCIAL SERVICES OF HAMILTON ↗
- Who funds ROYAL CANADIAN AIR CADETS ↗
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.
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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.