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Hamilton, ON · Public foundation

The Masonic Foundation of Ontario

The objects of the foundation set out clearly the charitable nature: to receive maintain manage control and use donations exclusively for charitable surposes within ontario.

C$933k
Granted FY2024still arriving
54
Grants FY2024still arriving
2
Regions reached
C$81k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 54 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k19 grants · C$76k
  • C$10k–50k32 grants · C$677k
  • C$50k–250k3 grants · C$181k
C$15,250
Median grant
2
Regions reached
C$20M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
CK KIDS FOUNDATIONC$80,525
NORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINEC$50,000
PERLEY HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$50,000
PERLEY HEALTH FOUNDATIONC$40,000
CHALLENGE LEAUGE SPORTSC$37,000
LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATIONC$25,000
CONFEDERATION COLLEGEC$25,000
FANSHAWE COLLEGEC$25,000
ST.LAWRENCE COLLEGEC$25,000
ST.JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONC$25,000
ST.CLAIR COLLEGEC$25,000
ST.JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONC$25,000
LAMBTON COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$25,000
LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATIONC$25,000
NIAGARA COLLEGEC$25,000
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.

70%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$3.1M · 44 repeat orgsC$1.3M to everyone else

And the relationships you keep tend to grow: grantees you re-up on have seen median revenue of +30% since the first grant, against +16% for the ones you funded once.

44 repeat relationships — 19 still active in FY2024, 25 since wound down; 30 grantees were first funded in FY2024 (too recent to call).

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

44
71

Total granted

C$3.1M
C$923k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+30%
+16%

Still filing today

89%
87%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 57% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$397k 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

  • MU
    MCMASTER UNIVERSITY
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$240k · revenue +39%
  • LH
    LONDON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2024 · C$200k · revenue +123%
  • PH
    PERLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION
    3× · 2022–2024 · C$177k · revenue +68%

Funded once

  • SJ
    St, Joseph's - Hospice of Londongraduated
    one grant, 2018 · C$82k · revenue +37%
  • CF
    CANADIAN FEED THE CHILDREN
    one grant, 2021 · C$50k · revenue -11%
  • PA
    Parents Against Drugs
    one grant, 2019 · C$50k · revenue -19%

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
Hamilton Health Sciences Foundation

Raise manage and distribute funds in support of our hospitals and cancer centre for patient care research education equipment renovations and capital expenditures.

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2
The Ottawa Hospital Foundation

The ottawa hospital foundation raises and grants funds to the ottawa hospital foundation and the ottawa hospital research institute and other qaulified donees for the purposes of improving patient care capital dvelopment medical research…

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3
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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4
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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5
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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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
Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation

The Peterborough Regional Health Centre Foundation raises funds and manages donor gifts for the purpose of supporting outstanding patient care at the Peterborough Regional Health Centre. This includes raising funds for identified capital…

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8
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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9
North Bay Regional Health Centre Foundation

Primary goal is to provide funds for patient-focused care education and research for the benefit of the patients of Nipissing region of Northeastern Ontario. Encourage and administer donations to enhance and improve the services to the…

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10
Erie Shores Health Foundation

Erie shores health foundation raises capital for new equipment and building infrastructure for erie shores healthcare; capital campaigns currently being supported include diagnostic imaging mri equipment and urology. erie shores health…

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11
Ontario Shores Foundation for Mental Health

The purpose of ontario shores foundation is to raise funds for the strategic priorities of the hospital and its partner organizations. fundraising revenue supports program innovation research education programs that promote mental health…

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12
Halton Learning Foundation

The Halton Learning Foundation was established to support quality education for students of the Halton District School Board. HLF provides emergency funds for students in need post-secondary scholarships and grants to assist schools that…

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is Ottawa Gatineau Youth Foundation La Fondation Jeunesse D'ottawa Gatineau and the most unlike its peers is Parents Against Drugs. 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

141 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. 141 of the 145 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.

8
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
19
Early backer (in before they grew)
131/141
Grantees still filing
73/141
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 budgetGIANT STEPS TORONTO INC. — C$250,000 over 5y, 4.5% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$240,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetLONDON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$200,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetPERLEY HEALTH FOUNDATION — C$177,310 over 3y, 2.7% of budgetFEED ONTARIO — C$154,700 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetQUEEN'S UNIVERSITY AT KINGSTON — C$125,000 over 4y, 0.0% of budgetNORTHERN ONTARIO SCHOOL OF MEDICINE UNIVERSITY — C$120,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetGIRLS GUIDES OF CANADA ONTARIO COUNCIL — C$110,000 over 8y, 60% of budgetParent Action on Drugs (PAD) — C$100,000 over 2y, 8.5% of budgetMASONICHIP FOUNDATION OF ONTARIO — C$96,700 over 7y, 93% of budgetSCOUTS CANADA PROVINCIAL COUNCIL FOR ONTARIO — C$95,000 over 7y, 76% of budgetCK KIDS FOUNDATION — C$94,225 over 2y, 5.2% of budgetThe Univeristy of Western Ontario — C$90,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSt, Joseph's - Hospice of London — C$82,360 over 1y, 3.1% of budgetONTARIO DEMOLAY FOUNDATIOM — C$80,000 over 6y, 100% of budgetUniversity Hospitals Kingston Foundation — C$77,119 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetRAINBOW GIRLS — C$60,000 over 4y, 6.8% of budget4-H CANADA COUNCIL — C$55,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetNorthern College of Applied Arts and Technology — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.1% of budgetDURHAM COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetLoyalist College of Applied Arts and Technology — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCANADIAN FEED THE CHILDREN — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetFanshawe College Foundation — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.8% of budgetCanadore College of Applied Arts and Technology Scholars — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCONESTOGA COLLEGE — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST.JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetLAMBTON COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 1.1% of budgetTHE CONFEDERATION COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetCAMBRIAN COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetSENECA COLLEGE — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetST.LAWRENCE COLLEGE — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetMOHAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetCentennial College of Applied Arts and Technology — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.0% of budgetLAST POST FUND — C$48,500 over 2y, 0.4% of budgetMISSION SERVICES — C$41,775 over 2y, 0.2% of budgetONTARIO 4-H FOUNDATION — C$40,000 over 3y, 4.8% of budgetTrillium Childhood Cancer Support Centre — C$27,626 over 3y, 0.9% of budgetBurlington Rotary Community Hospice Inc. — C$26,253 over 1y, 0.6% of budgetWOUNDED WARRIORS CANADA — C$26,250 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetCanadian Mental Health Association-Oxford County Branch — C$25,153 over 1y, 0.5% of budgetSheridan College Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 1.3% of budgetST CLAIR COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 4.7% of budgetTHE SAULT COLLEGE OF APPLIED ARTS AND TECHNOLOGY — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetFANSHAWE COLLEGE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.3% of budgetTHE GEORGE BROWN COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.7% of budgetKINGSTON HEALTH SCIENCES CENTRE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetNIAGARA COLLEGE — C$25,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetBarrie Community Foundation — C$25,000 over 1y, 3.9% 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.

Smart Serve OntarioCwb Welding FoundationCanerector FoundationHydro One Employees' …Niagara Community Fou…Muskoka Community Fou…Waterloo Region Commu…J.P. Bickell Foundati…Quickie Community Fou…United Way Leeds & Gr…Walker Wood FoundationHamilton Community Fo…
Smart Serve OntarioON19.4× affinity15 shared granteesties to 8 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Smart Serve Ontario · Cwb Welding Foundation · Canerector Foundation · Hydro One Employees' and Pensioners' Charity Trust Fund · Niagara Community Foundation Fondation Communautaire de Niagara · Muskoka Community Foundation · Waterloo Region Community Foundation · J.P. Bickell Foundation · Quickie Community Foundation - Fondation Communautaire Quickie · United Way Leeds & Grenville · Walker Wood Foundation · Hamilton Community 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 145 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 2024-03-31, as published by the Canada Revenue Agency in 2024. Amounts are Canadian dollars, as filed and never converted. Registered as a public foundation under foundations.

Source object 894112986:2024-03-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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