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Brantford, ON · Private foundation

The Hensen Foundation

The Hensen Foundation made donations to qualified donees.

C$264k
Granted FY2024still arriving
68
Grants FY2024still arriving
4
Regions reached
C$29k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 68 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k62 grants · C$138k
  • C$10k–50k6 grants · C$126k
C$1,100
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$4.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
BRANTFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOLC$29,368
HOPE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCHC$23,500
REDEEMER UNIVERSITY COLLEGEC$20,000
HAMILTON DISTRICT CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOLC$19,785
ANCASTER CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCHC$18,000
CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATIONC$15,000
THE ROTARY CLUB OF BRANTFORDC$9,000
WORLD RENEWC$9,000
ONTARIO RETT SYNDROME ASSOCIATIONC$9,000
CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOLC$7,627
WHY NOT CITY MISSIONC$5,860
PREGNANCY & RESOURCE CENTRE - BRANTC$5,000
WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP CANADA INC.C$5,000
MISSION AVIATION FELLOWSHIP OF CANADAC$5,000
COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICE BRANTFORD FOOD BANKC$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.

98%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$2.5M · 83 repeat orgsC$38k to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +25% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

83 repeat relationships — 65 still active in FY2024, 18 since wound down; 2 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

83
6

Total granted

C$2.5M
C$27k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+25%
+16%

Still filing today

92%
67%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 96% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$12k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’23’24
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
    BRANTFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$498k · revenue +42%
  • SM
    SHALOM MANOR
    5× · 2017–2021 · C$254k · revenue +95%
  • RU
    REDEEMER UNIVERSITY COLLEGE
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$237k · revenue +56%

Funded once

  • ES
    EASTER SEALSgraduated
    one grant, 2020 · C$12k · revenue +44%
  • CC
    CELEBRATION CHURCH
    one grant, 2020 · C$8k
  • BO
    BRIDGES OF HOPE
    one grant, 2019 · C$3k · revenue +16%

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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Christ's Hope International- Canada

Providing health education by instruction to the public regarding hiv/aids; providing basic necessities of life such as shelter and medical assistance to children orphaned by hiv/aids; teaching the christian faith. all of 1-3 take place in…

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2
Fh Canada

Food for the Hungry (FH) Canada part of the global FH family is a Christian not-for-profit organization dedicated to ending poverty worldwide. With partners across Canada and the world FH walks alongside vulnerable communities throughout…

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3
Compassion Canada

Compassion Canada is a leading Christian child development organization whose mission is to release children from poverty in Jesus' name. Our proven child development program provides infants children and youth around the world with the…

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4
Hypertension Canada

Advancing the health of Canadians by enabling the detection prevention and control of high blood pressure and its complications. Hypertension Canada delivers against its mission/vision by striving for excellence in three core service…

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5
Habitat for Humanity Canada/Habitat Pour L'humanitÉ Canada

Habitat for Humanity Canada' brings communities together to help families build strength stability and independence through affordable homeownership. In fulfilling this mission we provide resources training and ongoing support to help…

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6
Every Home for Christ International/Canada

Christian philanthropic work that provides: - Evangelism and discipleship strategies and resources for churches and individuals - Support for children in various nations

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7
Hope Story

Working around the world hope story is a christian charity located in cambridge ontario with a mission to help vulnerable children access education health and discipleship through their local church. the in-country churches we partner with…

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8
Cancer Care Ontario

Cancer Care Ontario (CCO) is the provincial government agency responsible for driving health system performance improvement for Ontario's cancer and chronic kidney disease health systems. CCO also supports achievement of Ontario's Wait…

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9
Canadian Baptist Ministries

Cbm is a global mission organization committed to sharing god's love through word and deed. we believe that god brings healing to a broken world through local churches. with over 150 years of experience we have seen that words and deeds…

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10
Brain Tumour Foundation of Canada

Through the support of donors and volunteers we take action and provide programs for every canadian affected by a brain tumour. we provide information including handbooks storybooks information sheets videos and a comprehensive website and…

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11
Brands for Canada

The organization receives donations of new clothing from manufacturers and retailers and distributes them to over 80 social agencies working with clients living in poverty and crisis. the organization provides work placement for clients in…

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12
Ovarian Cancer Canada/Cancer De L'ovaire Canada

Research: Investing in pan-Canadian and patient-centered research across the full continuum of ovarian cancer from prevention to diagnosis to treatment to survivorship. Our research investments are enabling discoveries by establishing and…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is The Navigators of Canada and the most unlike its peers is Habitat for Humanity Brant. 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

88 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. 88 of the 91 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)
15
Early backer (in before they grew)
83/88
Grantees still filing
61/88
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$10kC$100kC$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetBRANTFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$497,843 over 7y, 9.0% of budgetSHALOM MANOR — C$254,000 over 5y, 1.2% of budgetREDEEMER UNIVERSITY COLLEGE — C$237,254 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetANCASTER CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH — C$199,166 over 7y, 7.6% of budgetWHY NOT CITY MISSION — C$143,180 over 7y, 13% of budgetHAMILTON DISTRICT CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL — C$140,604 over 7y, 1.0% of budgetHOPE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH — C$133,000 over 7y, 3.4% of budgetCHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION — C$81,000 over 5y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION AVATION FELLOWSHIP OF CANADA — C$66,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetBRANT UNITED WAY — C$60,000 over 7y, 0.8% of budgetWORLD RENEW — C$55,500 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetWORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP CANADA INC. — C$33,000 over 7y, 0.3% of budgetLANDSDOWNE CHILDREN'S CENTRE FOUNDATION — C$32,500 over 7y, 1.7% of budgetPREGNANCY & RESOURCE CENTRE-BRANT — C$32,000 over 7y, 1.5% of budgetONTARIO RETT SYNDROME ASSOCIATION — C$27,400 over 3y, 11% of budgetRESONATE GLOBAL MISSION (CHRISTIAN REFORMED HOME MISSIONS) — C$26,750 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetCALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL — C$26,746 over 4y, 0.2% of budgetCELEBRATION CHURCH — C$26,400 over 6y, 2.0% of budgetCOMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICE BRANTFORD FOOD BANK — C$21,940 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetONTARIO CHRISTIAN GLEANERS — C$20,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetPROMISE KEEPERS — C$17,000 over 7y, 0.2% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE — C$15,500 over 6y, 0.0% of budgetBRANT COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION — C$14,500 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetINITIATIVE 22 — C$14,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetTHE GOOD SHEPHERD CENTRE HAMILTON — C$13,500 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetINDWELL COMMUNITY HOMES — C$12,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEASTER SEALS — C$11,900 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetTEEN CHALLENGE — C$11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetFOCUS ON THE FAMILY (CANADA) ASSOCIATION — C$11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION SERVICES OF HAMILTON — C$11,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetEDUDEO MINISTRIES — C$10,000 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetTHE BIBLE LEAGUE OF CANADA — C$9,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHE ROTARY CLUB OF BRANTFORD — C$9,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetNOVA VITA WOMEN'S SHELTER — C$8,600 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHE NAVIGATORS OF CANADA — C$8,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBRANTFORD BLESSING CENTRE — C$8,000 over 2y, 2.4% of budgetHAMIILTON RIGHT TO LIFE — C$8,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetSOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetTHREEFOLD MINISTRIES — C$7,000 over 6y, 0.9% of budgetCHRISTIAN HORIZONS — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetALZHEIMER SOCIETY FOUNDATION OF BRANT — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetHEART & STROKE FOUNDATION — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBIG BROTHERS & BIG SISTERS OF GRAND ERIE — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.4% of budgetBACK TO GOD — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetBEGINNINGS FAMILY SERVICES — C$7,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetTHE SALVATION ARMY — C$6,500 over 7y, 5.6% of budgetSLEEPING CHILDREN AROUND THE WORLD — C$6,190 over 5y, 0.1% of budgetST. JOSPEH'S LIFECARE FOUNDATION — C$6,000 over 5y, 0.1% 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.

  • Who funds BRANTFORD CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM MANOR ↗
  • Who funds REDEEMER UNIVERSITY COLLEGE ↗
  • Who funds ANCASTER CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds WHY NOT CITY MISSION ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON DISTRICT CHRISTIAN HIGH SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds HOPE CHRISTIAN REFORMED CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds CHRISTIAN SCHOOL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds MISSION AVATION FELLOWSHIP OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds BRANT UNITED WAY ↗
  • Who funds WORLD RENEW ↗
  • Who funds WORD OF LIFE FELLOWSHIP CANADA INC. ↗
  • Who funds LANDSDOWNE CHILDREN'S CENTRE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PREGNANCY & RESOURCE CENTRE-BRANT ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO RETT SYNDROME ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds RESONATE GLOBAL MISSION (CHRISTIAN REFORMED HOME MISSIONS) ↗
  • Who funds CALVIN CHRISTIAN SCHOOL ↗
  • Who funds CELEBRATION CHURCH ↗
  • Who funds COMMUNITY RESOURCE SERVICE BRANTFORD FOOD BANK ↗
  • Who funds ONTARIO CHRISTIAN GLEANERS ↗
  • Who funds PROMISE KEEPERS ↗
  • Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
  • Who funds BRANT COMMUNITY HEALTHCARE SYSTEM FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds INITIATIVE 22 ↗
  • Who funds THE GOOD SHEPHERD CENTRE HAMILTON ↗
  • Who funds INDWELL COMMUNITY HOMES ↗
  • Who funds EASTER SEALS ↗
  • Who funds TEEN CHALLENGE ↗
  • Who funds FOCUS ON THE FAMILY (CANADA) ASSOCIATION ↗
  • Who funds MISSION SERVICES OF HAMILTON ↗
  • Who funds EDUDEO MINISTRIES ↗
  • Who funds THE BIBLE LEAGUE OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds THE ROTARY CLUB OF BRANTFORD ↗
  • Who funds NOVA VITA WOMEN'S SHELTER ↗
  • Who funds THE NAVIGATORS OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds BRANTFORD BLESSING CENTRE ↗
  • Who funds HAMIILTON RIGHT TO LIFE ↗
  • Who funds SOUTHWESTERN ONTARIO YOUTH FOR CHRIST ↗
  • Who funds THREEFOLD MINISTRIES ↗

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.

Brant Community Found…Brant United WayStephen Smith & Dorot…Hope Christian Reform…The Rotary Club of Br…Christian Stewardship…The Roger and Edith D…Brantford Cornerstone…Hamilton Community Fo…The John & Ellie Voor…Link Charity Canada I…The Cowan Foundation
Brant Community FoundationON19× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Brant Community Foundation · Brant United Way · Stephen Smith & Dorothy Woltz Foundation · Hope Christian Reformed Church of Brantford · The Rotary Club of Brantford Sunrise · Christian Stewardship Services · The Roger and Edith Davis Foundation · Brantford Cornerstone Church · Hamilton Community Foundation · The John & Ellie Voortman Charitable Foundation · Link Charity Canada Inc · The Cowan Foundation

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 91 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 855817482:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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