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Burlington, ON · Private foundation

The Schwenger Family Foundation

THE SCHWENGER FAMILY FOUNDATION supports the development & well-being in the greater hamilton area with a focus on health care arts and at-risk youth organizations.

C$130k
Granted FY2024still arriving
5
Grants FY2024still arriving
1
Regions reached
C$50k
Largest
01What you fundRead
02Your edgeRead
03Your fieldRead
01What you fund
01FY2024 · 5 grants

Where the money goes

Your grants by size, and where they go.

By grant size · FY2024

  • Under C$10k1 grant · C$5k
  • C$10k–50k3 grants · C$75k
  • C$50k–250k1 grant · C$50k
C$25,000
Median grant
1
Regions reached
C$3.0M
Total assets
Largest grants
RecipientAmount
MOHAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATIONC$50,000
DR. BOB KEMP HOSPICEC$25,000
HAMILTON FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESSC$25,000
ST.JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATIONC$25,000
GOOD SHEPPARD REFUGEE SOCIAL MINISTRIESC$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.

97%of every dollar goes to organizations you’ve funded before.
C$1.1M · 17 repeat orgsC$30k to everyone else

17 repeat relationships — 5 still active in FY2024, 12 since wound down.

How the two cohorts compare

Re-uppedFunded once

Organizations

17
7

Total granted

C$1.1M
C$30k

Median revenue growth · since first grant

+37%
+38%

Still filing today

100%
86%

New vs renewed · share of each year

In FY2024, 100% of grant dollars renewed an existing relationship; C$0 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

  • MC
    MOHAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATION
    6× · 2019–2024 · C$250k · revenue +23%
  • SJ
    ST. JOSEPH'S VILLA FOUNDATION
    6× · 2018–2023 · C$150k · revenue +27%
  • HH
    HAMIILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION
    7× · 2017–2023 · C$106k · revenue +69%

Funded once

  • JB
    Joseph Brant Hospital Foundation
    one grant, 2018 · C$10k · revenue -36%
  • MU
    MCMASTER UNIVERSITY
    one grant, 2022 · C$5k
  • SH
    SPCA HAMILTON BURLINGTON
    one grant, 2023 · C$5k · revenue +23%

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 Community Foundation

Hamilton community foundation drives positive change in hamilton by building and managing endowed and other charitable funds and making strategic and effective grants and loans to charitable organizations and initiatives. we facilitate…

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2
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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3
Hamilton Health Sciences Corporation

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…

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4
Hamilton Health Sciences Volunteer Association

1. Purchase of hospital equipment for Hamilton Health Sciences (HHS) 2. Fund therapy and recreation programs for patients at HHS 3. Provide amenities for patients at HHS such as furnishing/refurbishing lounges and waiting areas and provide…

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5
St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

Operation of a public teaching hospital. provides approximately 804 beds for acute mental health rehabilitation and chronic beds; affiliated with research and various colleges and universities.

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6
The Milton District Hospital Foundation

Donates funds and equipment to halton healthcare services corporation to benefit the milton hospital site.

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7
Oakville Hospital Foundation

Provide grants and gifts of equipment to the oakville site of halton healthcare services corporation

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8
The Georgetown Hospital Foundation

Donates funds to halton healthcare services corporation to benefit the georgetown hospital site

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9
Hamilton Golf and Country Club Foundation

Maintain a foundation and to apply part of the income to charitable organizations.

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10
Hamilton Music Festival
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11
Research St Joseph's - Hamilton

The research institute of st. joe's hamilton is an academic and research community focused on improving the quality of life for our patients and community members as well as those diagnosed with a diverse range of medical conditions around…

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12
Hamilton Conservation Foundation

Supporting outdoor environmental education support for maintenance of passive recreational assets support for maintenance of heritage properties

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For reference, the grantee most central to the portfolio’s shape is St. Joseph's Healthcare Foundation Hamilton and the most unlike its peers is Royal Botanical Gardens. 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

23 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. 23 of the 24 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.

0
Load-bearing (≥25% of a budget)
5
Early backer (in before they grew)
23/23
Grantees still filing
22/23
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$1.0MC$10MC$100Mgrantee revenue →↑ your share of their budgetMOHAWK COLLEGE FOUNDATION — C$250,000 over 6y, 1.4% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S VILLA FOUNDATION — C$150,000 over 6y, 1.1% of budgetHAMIILTON HEALTH SCIENCES FOUNDATION — C$106,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetYMCA OF HAMILTON/BURLINGTON/BRANTFORD — C$95,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetTHEATRE AQUARIUS INCORPORATED — C$90,000 over 6y, 0.6% of budgetST. JOSEPH'S HEALTHCARE FOUNDATION — C$55,000 over 3y, 0.2% of budgetHAMILTON FOUNDATION FOR STUDENT SUCCESS — C$54,000 over 5y, 3.2% of budgetDR. BOB KEMP HOSPICE — C$50,000 over 2y, 0.7% of budgetHAMILTON PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA — C$40,000 over 7y, 0.5% of budgetGOOD SHEPHERD REFUGEE SOCIAL MINISTRIES — C$40,000 over 8y, 0.1% of budgetROYAL BOTANICAL GARDENS — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.0% of budgetMISSION SERVICES OF HAMILTON INC. — C$35,000 over 7y, 0.1% of budgetUNITED WAY OF BURLINGTON & GREATER HAMILTON — C$30,000 over 6y, 0.1% of budgetMCMASTER UNIVERSITY — C$25,000 over 5y, 0.0% of budgetBURLINGTON MUSEUM FOUNDATION — C$20,000 over 4y, 7.1% of budgetCANCER ASSISTANCE PROGRAM — C$20,000 over 4y, 0.5% of budgetTHE GOVERNING COUNCIL OF THE SALVATION OF ARMY IN CAN — C$15,000 over 3y, 4.5% of budgetJoseph Brant Hospital Foundation — C$10,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetSPCA HAMILTON BURLINGTON — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetTHE HAMILTON YOUNG WOMEN'S CHRISTIAN ASSOCIATION — C$5,000 over 1y, 0.0% of budgetDundas Valley School of Art — C$2,500 over 1y, 0.2% of budgetMARCH OF DIMES CANADA NON-PROFIT HOUSING CORPORATI — C$1,000 over 1y, 0.1% of budgetWELCOME INN COMMUNITY CENTRE — C$1,000 over 1y, 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.

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.

Hamilton Community Fo…Burlington Community …United Way Golden Hor…The Charitable Corpor…The Chml Children's F…Canada GivesSam and Roma Mercanti…Art Gallery of Hamilt…National Steel Car Li…Patrick J McNally Cha…The Allen and Milli G…Hamilton-Wentworth Re…
Hamilton Community FoundationON18.2× affinity15 shared granteesties to 11 of 11Hover any node to trace its alignments.Compare side by side →

Open a dossier: Hamilton Community Foundation · Burlington Community Foundation · United Way Golden Horseshoe · The Charitable Corporation of The Rotary Club of Hamilton AM · The Chml Children's Fund · Canada Gives · Sam and Roma Mercanti Foundation · Art Gallery of Hamilton · National Steel Car Limited Employees Charitable Donation Fun · Patrick J McNally Charitable Foundation · The Allen and Milli Gould Family Foundation · Hamilton-Wentworth Regional Police Employees Charity Trustpr

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 24 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 815252796:2024-12-31 · View the T3010 on the CRA register

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