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Hamilton, ON · Private foundation

The Lewis & Ruth Sherman Foundation

Gifts to qualified donees

C$215k
Granted FY2022
18
Grants FY2022
4
Regions reached
C$35k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2022 · 18 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2022

  • Under C$10k7 grants · C$25k
  • C$10k–50k11 grants · C$190k
C$10,000
Median grant
4
Regions reached
C$21M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF CANADAC$35,000
CANADIAN CENTRE FOR CHILD PROTECTION INC.C$35,000
SEVA CANADAC$25,000
MADA COMMUNITY CENTREC$20,000
FRIENDSHIP CIRCLEC$15,000
TRUE NORTH AIDC$10,000
SECHELT HOSPITAL FOUNDATIONC$10,000
PACIFIC ASSISTANCE DOGS SOCIETYC$10,000
MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITALC$10,000
GIBSONS WILDLIFEC$10,000
CEDARS CANCER FOUNDATIONC$10,000
SPCA VANCOUVERC$5,000
SHALEM MENTAL HEALTH NETWORKC$5,000
OTTAWA FOOD BANKC$5,000
WOMEN 4 CHANGEC$2,500
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.

78%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.1M · 22 repeat orgsC$884k to everyone else

22 repeat relationships — 12 still active in FY2022, 10 since wound down; 6 grantees were first funded in FY2022 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

22
25

Total granted

C$3.1M
C$864k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+27%
+46%

Still filing today

95%
32%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2022, 91% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$20k went to new ones.

50%100%’17’18’19’20’21’22
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

  • MU
    MCMASTER UNIVERSITY
    2× · 2017–2018 · C$684k · revenue +39%
  • SJ
    ST JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$666k · revenue +18%
  • JH
    JURAVINSKI HOSPITAL
    4× · 2017–2021 · C$423k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • JH
    JURAVINSKI HOSPITAL
    one grant, 2019 · C$163k
  • SJ
    ST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION
    one grant, 2019 · C$150k
  • SV
    SHALOM VILLAGEgraduated
    one grant, 2017 · C$100k · revenue +29%

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
Uhn Foundation

We raise fund for research education and the enhancement of patient care at Toronto General and Western hospitals as well as Toronto Rehabilitation Institute and Michener Institute of Education at UHN. Together with our donors we are…

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2
The Hospital for Sick Children Foundation

SickKids Foundation has been inspiring our communities since 1972 to invest in improving the lives of children and their families. Donor support is a critical source of funding for the Hospital for Sick Children and in recent years has…

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3
Women's College Hospital Foundation

Women's college hospital foundation raises funds to support the building equipment research and education needs of women's college hospital ontario's first and only independent academic ambulatory care hospital with a primary focus on…

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4
Hamilton Health Sciences Research Organization

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…

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5
North York General Hospital Foundation

North york general hospital foundation raises and stewards funds for north york general hospital to purhase medical and capital improvements and support the hospital program and staff training and education. with the foundation's funding…

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6
Toronto Rehabilitation Institute Foundation

The toronto rehabilitation institute foundation's mission is to raise grant and steward funds to support the mission of the toronto rehabilitation institute (which is part of the university health network) to develop solutions for people…

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7
Toronto East Health Network Foundation

Michael Garron Hospital Foundation raises funds and engages our community in support of Michael Garron Hospital a vibrant community teaching hospital serving more than 400 000 people in 22 distinct neighbourhoods in East Toronto. With…

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8
University of Ottawa Heart Institute Foundation Fondation De L'institut De Cardiologie De L'universite D'ottawa

We operate endowed and non-endowed programs to benefit cardiac care research education and equipment purchases at the university of ottawa heart institute (uohi) and the ottawa heart institute research corporation (ohirc). we contribute to…

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9
The Canadian Foundation for Women's Health

To distribute funding to organizations and universities for research in the field of women's sexual reproductive health.

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10
Stollery Children's Hospital Foundation

Funding for grants is provided to the Stollery Children's Hospital the University of Alberta the Women and Children's Health Research Institute the Mental Health Foundation and Alberta Health Services for research and education equipment…

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11
William Osler Health System Foundation

William Osler Health System Foundation (Osler Foundation) provides funding to William Osler Health System (Osler) a leading hospital system serving more than 1.3 million people in Brampton North Etobicoke Caledon and surrounding…

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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 Hamilton Community Foundation and the most unlike its peers is Cameras for Girls. 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

35 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. 35 of the 53 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)
8
Early backer (in before they grew)
35/35
Grantees still filing
27/35
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 budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$683,525 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$666,074 over 4y, 1.5% of budgetJURAVINSKI HOSPITAL — C$423,016 over 4y, 0.9% of budgetCROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF CANADA — C$175,000 over 5y, 0.3% of budgetCANADIAN CENTRE FOR CHILD PROTECTION INC — C$105,000 over 3y, 0.6% of budgetSHALOM VILLAGE — C$100,000 over 1y, 12% of budgetHALTON WOMEN'S PLACE — C$100,000 over 2y, 1.3% of budgetCOVENANT HOUSE TORONTO — C$100,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetMADA Community Centre — C$100,000 over 5y, 0.5% of budgetSEVA CANADA — C$95,000 over 4y, 1.8% of budgetNEW LEAF YOGA FOUNDATION — C$87,815 over 2y, 17% of budgetHAMILTON JEWISH FEDERATION — C$87,400 over 2y, 2.7% of budgetFRIENDSHIP CIRCLE — C$60,000 over 4y, 0.8% of budgetSECHELT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$55,000 over 5y, 3.6% of budgetPACIFIC ASSISTANCE DOGS SOCIETY — C$55,000 over 5y, 0.7% of budgetINTERVAL HOUSE OF HAMILTON-WENTWORTH — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.9% of budgetNELLI'S WOMENT'S — C$50,000 over 1y, 1.2% of budgetMONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL — C$47,500 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetCEDARS CANCER FOUNDATION — C$47,500 over 5y, 0.2% of budgetGIBSONS WILDLIFE — C$40,000 over 4y, 9.3% of budgetOCH FOUNDATION — C$35,000 over 3y, 1.7% of budgetJOSEPH BRANT HOSPITAL — C$30,000 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetOTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA VANCOUVER — C$25,000 over 5y, 2.9% of budgetTRUE NORTH AID — C$20,000 over 2y, 0.6% of budgetONE FAMILY FUND — C$15,000 over 1y, 1.0% of budgetUNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetSHALEM MENTAL HEALTH NETWORK — C$5,000 over 1y, 3.6% of budgetSECHELT PUBLIC LIBRARY — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetOTTAWA FOOD BANK — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetWOMEN 4 CHANGE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFORA NETWORK FOR CHANGE — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetCAMERAS FOR GIRLS — C$2,500 over 1y, 4.6% of budgetROCK-REACH OUT CENTRE FOR KIDS — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetMYELOMA 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.

  • Who funds MCMASTER UNIVERSITY ↗
  • Who funds ST JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JURAVINSKI HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds CROHN'S & COLITIS FOUNDATION OF CANADA ↗
  • Who funds CANADIAN CENTRE FOR CHILD PROTECTION INC ↗
  • Who funds SHALOM VILLAGE ↗
  • Who funds HALTON WOMEN'S PLACE ↗
  • Who funds COVENANT HOUSE TORONTO ↗
  • Who funds MADA Community Centre ↗
  • Who funds SEVA CANADA ↗
  • Who funds NEW LEAF YOGA FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds HAMILTON JEWISH FEDERATION ↗
  • Who funds FRIENDSHIP CIRCLE ↗
  • Who funds SECHELT HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds PACIFIC ASSISTANCE DOGS SOCIETY ↗
  • Who funds INTERVAL HOUSE OF HAMILTON-WENTWORTH ↗
  • Who funds NELLI'S WOMENT'S ↗
  • Who funds MONTREAL GENERAL HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds CEDARS CANCER FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds GIBSONS WILDLIFE ↗
  • Who funds OCH FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds JOSEPH BRANT HOSPITAL ↗
  • Who funds OTTAWA HOSPITAL FOUNDATION ↗
  • Who funds SPCA VANCOUVER ↗
  • Who funds TRUE NORTH AID ↗
  • Who funds ONE FAMILY FUND ↗

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.

Aqueduct FoundationPrivate Giving Founda…United Way Golden Hor…BenefAction FoundationCanada GivesHamilton Community Fo…The Arthur and Margar…Nicola Wealth Private…United Way British Co…Charitable Gift Funds…Vancouver FoundationJewish Foundation of …
Aqueduct FoundationBC9.7× affinity13 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Aqueduct Foundation · Private Giving Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · BenefAction Foundation · Canada Gives · Hamilton Community Foundation · The Arthur and Margaret Weisz Family Foundation · Nicola Wealth Private Giving Foundation · United Way British Columbia · Charitable Gift Funds Canada Foundation / Fonds de Bienfaisance Canada · Vancouver Foundation · Jewish Foundation of Greater Toronto

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 53 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 2022-12-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2022. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a private foundation under foundations.

Possibly out of date. A more recent return (FY2024) is on record, so the figures above are from FY2022, the most recent year this charity itemized its gifts to donees.

Source object 119242055:2022-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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