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Hamilton, ON · Charitable organization

The Hamilton Dream Center

We operate a food and clothing bank serving the needy in the area east of downtown hamilton.

C$10k
Granted FY2024still arriving
9
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$2k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 9 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

C$1,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$594k
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
LIBERTY FOR YOUTHC$2,000
MICAH HOUSEC$1,500
CITY KIDZC$1,500
ACTS COMMUNITY WORKSHIP CENTERC$1,000
INDWELLC$1,000
RESTORATIONS SECOND STAGE HOMESC$1,000
ATWELL CENTREC$800
PAOCC$500
CORE CHURCHC$500
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.

89%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$58k · 12 repeat orgsC$8k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +55% since the first grant, against +12% for the ones you funded once.

12 repeat relationships — 7 still active in FY2024, 5 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

12
6

Total granted

C$58k
C$6k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+55%
+12%

Still filing today

92%
100%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 85% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$2k 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

  • CK
    CITY KIDZ
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$9k · revenue +18%
  • AC
    Atwell Centre
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$9k · revenue +777%
  • MH
    MICAH HOUSE
    6× · 2018–2024 · C$8k · revenue +1%

Funded once

  • C
    CARDUS
    one grant, 2021 · C$2k · revenue +12%
  • SL
    SPEAK LIFE GLOBALgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$1k · revenue +48%
  • GO
    Greater Ontario House Of Prayer
    one grant, 2017 · C$1k · revenue -18%

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
Peace House International Ministry

Advancing the Kingdom of God through Soul Winning evangelism outreaches and Church planting. Worship & bible study. Provides aid to Peace House International Satellite Churches in 5 countries. Provide aid to low-income persons. Counselling…

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2
Revive Nations

Revive nations is a ministry with a passion to raise jesus lovers across the world and on a mission to win souls for jesus touching nations one life at a time.

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3
Welcome Home Evangelistic Ministries
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4
Life Restoration Ministries

Provides counselling services retreats workshops consultation podcasting personal mentoring and christian faith formation.

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5
Freedom House Church & Healing Centre Inc.

Missions preaching outreach counseling teaching worship & prayer

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6
Cotr Global Ministries

Worship services bible studies community outreach leadership development youth group counselling refugee support pastoral care

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7
Fresh Wind Ministries

We offer pastoral care and prayer ministry and counselling we give oversight to existing churches and assist in developing strong churches we teach and lead worship services for camps conferences and churches

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8
Gateway Ministries International

(1) oversea and local missionaries (2) bible study (3) pastoral counselling and preaching

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9
Worship and Restoration Ministries

Christian ministry

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10
Going Beyond Missions

Missionary trainings On-line and On-site mission trips Church planting trainings

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11
Liberty International Ministries

Prayer teaching hospital visitations spiritual counselling home visits sunday worship services midweek prayer meetings bible studies youth ministry kids ministry men & women's ministry.

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12
The Culture Changers

The Culture Changers deliver seminars on Biblical teaching and how it applies to cultural issues.

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Every Day Ministries Canada and the most unlike its peers is Indwell Community Homes. 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

20 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
6
Early backer (in before they grew)
19/20
Grantees still filing
14/20
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$10Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetCITY KIDZ — C$8,850 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetAtwell Centre — C$8,550 over 6y, 0.8% of budgetMICAH HOUSE — C$8,426 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetAce Ministries — C$7,800 over 7y, 2.1% of budgetLIBERTY FOR YOUTH — C$5,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetRESTORATIONS SECOND STAGE HOMES — C$5,500 over 4y, 1.1% of budgetINDWELL — C$4,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetFIGHT4FREEDOM — C$3,000 over 2y, 0.3% of budget2C BEYOND MINISTRIES — C$2,000 over 3y, 0.5% of budgetCARDUS — C$2,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWORLD RENEW — C$1,850 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetEVERY DAY MINISTRIES CANADA — C$1,750 over 2y, 1.7% of budgetWOMEN OF WORTH MINISTRIES — C$1,175 over 2y, 2.6% of budgetACTS COMMUNITY WORKSHIP CENTER — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSPEAK LIFE GLOBAL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetGreater Ontario House Of Prayer — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetGALCCOM INTERNATIONAL — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetPAOC — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetCompass Point Bible Church — C$500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetHALTON WOMEN'S PLACE — 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.

Redeemer UniversityLink Charity Canada I…Christian Stewardship…Ace MinistriesMeadowlands Fellowshi…Hamilton Community Fo…Blue Sea Philanthropy…Canadian National Chr…CHIMP: Charitable Imp…United Way of Greater…PayPal Giving Fund Ca…Canadian Online Givin…
Redeemer UniversityON9.2× affinity5 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Redeemer University · Link Charity Canada Inc · Christian Stewardship Services · Ace Ministries · Meadowlands Fellowship Christian Reformed Church · Hamilton Community Foundation · Blue Sea Philanthropy Inc. · Canadian National Christian Foundation · CHIMP: Charitable Impact Foundation (Canada) · United Way of Greater Toronto · PayPal Giving Fund Canada · Canadian Online Giving Foundation/Fondation canadienne de dons en ligne

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 20 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 charitable organization under organizations relieving poverty.

Source object 845251222:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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